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ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD JANUARY 14, 1991 CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT LMCD SHORELAND REGULATIONS Bernhardson stated that since the Dacember 10, 1990 Orono Council meeting, the LMCr held a meeting. He said, "The neetirig was held on December 12, 1990 and the DNR was present to explain the Shoreland Regulations. The City oi Orono did not ha/e a representative present. I believe that Counci1.member Jabbour attended as a private citizen. There was a subsequent meeting of the 'Group of 8' on January 8th to discuss strategy. That was also the day the Metropolitan Council Systam's Committee held their first hearing on the Comprehensive Plan. The Mayors of the City of Wayzata and Spring Park were present at the hearing, in addition to representatives from the City of Excelsior and Orono. Due to other items on the hearing agenda, we were not able to make our presentation until 1:00 p.m. and had to leave the meeting before the LMCD made their comments. We indicated that V •'> were concerned about the direction being taken. We suggested tnat since there is not unanimous agreement among the cities that it may be appropriate for the Metropolitan Council to send the plan back to the L.MCD and allow more time to work out the differences. I don't know if that is the direction that the Met Council will take. We also raisad the point that in our opinion, the LMCD should concentrate on water surface, rather than shoreland regulations. There were some concerns expressed privately by one Metro Council member regarding the LMCD becoming involved in the regulation of shoreland. Mr. Callahan and I have discussed that aspect further in the past few days. In the meantime, the LMCD has been trying to discuss various issues with the Group of 8. The LMCD met with representatives from Spring Park last Thursday and reviewed their shoreland regulations. They determined that few of the Spring Park shoreland regulations would need revising in order to concur with the LMCD's regulations. However, I spoke with the Mayor of Spring of Park and their City does still have concerns about the Comprehensive Plan. Today I received a Memorandum of Understanding that differs from that presented in the Council's information packet this time. The Memorandum is abbreviated and is the same as that they presented to the City of Spring Park. I also spoke wicn Gene Strommen today and he extended the same offer to sit down with representatives from Orono to discuss the shoreland regulations. I told Mr. Strommen I would get back to h’ . with a response to his offer." Mayor Peterson questioned whether it would be beneficial to meet with the LMCD at this point. Councilmember Callahan replied, "It seems that nothing comes of these meetings. However, in order to be polite, we could agree to meet with them." J