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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 LMCD held a meeting. Ke said, "The meeting was held on December 12, 1990 and the DNR was present t^ explain the Shoreland Regulations. The City oC Orono did not ha ye a representative present. I believe that Counc i Imember J-ibbour 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 System's Committee held their first hearing on the Comprehensive Plan. The Mayors of tne 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 we were concerned about the direction being taken. We suggested that 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 LMCD 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 raised the point that in cir opinion, the LMCD should concentrate on witer 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 feather 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 shorelaid regulations. They determined that few of the Spring Park shoreland regulations would need revising in order to concur with tlie LMCD's regulations. However, I spoke with the Mayor of Spring of Park and their City does still have concerns about the Comprenensive 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 with 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 him 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." - 7 - 1^