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/. <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Mavor Callahan and Orono Council Members <br />Ron Moorse. City Adminirtrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron. Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />April 20. 1993 <br />SUBJECT: Shoreland Ordinances Update COiMCtmM <br />APR 2 6 1993 <br />cmroFomoList of Exhibits <br />A - Steve Prestin Memo of 1/14/93 <br />B - Letter to Ceil Strauss 1/29/93 <br />C - Woodland/DNR Correspondence <br />Process Nearing Completion <br />In December the DNR extended the deadline to May 10. 1993 for Lake Minnetonka cities to <br />adopt Shoreland Ordinances. It appears that all 14 cities will meet that deadline, although <br />DNR’s review is proceeding so slowly that most cities will have adopted an ordinance prior to <br />formal approval by DNR. <br />Late in 1992 the DNR hired former I'»NR staffer Steve Prestin as a consultant to review the <br />ordinances as they are submitted (DNR is currently reviewing Shoreland Ordinances from 246 <br />Minnesota local governments). <br />Procedunilly. Prestin submits a memo with his conunents to DNR. DNR is forwarding those <br />comments to the cities for reaction and discussion at the suff level. Pursuant to those <br />discussions, the DNR Area HydT>logist (Ceil Suauss) makes a recommendation to the DNR <br />Shoreland Hydrologist (Ed Fick; who sutrunarizes all the information in a recomniendation to <br />the DNR Land Use Unit Supervisor (Ogbazghi Siuin) who will transmit to the City a letter of <br />DNR’s approval of our ordinance with conditions, if any. <br />Attached find Prestin’s comments regarding our ordinance, and my comments to Ceil Strauss. <br />We have not received a formal response as yet. The only city to have totally completed the <br />process is Woodland, basically because theirs was a ver>- straight forward and relatively simple <br />ordinance (Woodland has only one zoning district). I am advised by Ed Pick that Orono ’s <br />approval should be the next in line. It is very likely that any changes they would like as to <br />make will not require immediate attention but can be added to the code as a ftinue <br />"housekeeping" ordinance A copy of the Woodland correspondence is attached as an example <br />of what we can expect