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72690.1 <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrato <br />DATE: August 23, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: Navarre Area Master Planning <br />f^OUHClL MEETifiQ <br />AUG 27 1990 <br />CiTy OF ORONO <br />Attachment: A. Navarre Area Master Planning Memo Dated 3/2/90 <br />ISSUE - <br />1. Provide information to Council regarding ability to have a <br />master plan eventually "realized". <br />2. Determine what direction, if any. Council desires to take on <br />this issue. <br />INTRODUCTION - At the Council’s March 12, 1990 Council meeting <br />the issue regarding master planning was discussed. The concern <br />expressed by CounciImembers was the ability once a master plan <br />was developed to have it "realized". <br />DISCUSSION - The issue have been discussed as to strategy for <br />realization with John Shardlow of Dahlgren, Shardlow and Uban. <br />The elements of principal concern that a master plan would be <br />addressing are as follows: <br />Land use <br />Structure <br />Quality <br />Location <br />Area appearance <br />Public <br />Private <br />Traffic flow <br />The obvious concern for any master plan development is that the <br />exercise would be gone through, a plan adopted and then it would <br />sit on a shelf with no means available to implement it. <br />In the Highway 12 case where the City was essentially dealing <br />with raw land, the master plan that was done was then adopted <br />through a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. It had within it an <br />incentive to allow it to happen in two ways. <br />A. There were no current structures or longterm land use <br />on the property. <br />B. The Comprehensive Plan generally allowed for uses