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C>TY OF ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING - PUBLIC REARING HIGHWAY 12 CORRIDOR STUDY/COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1987 7:30 P.M. Th, Oro-:.- Planning Commission met on the above date with the following member. •>esent. ^_hairman Kelley, Members Bellows and Taylor.. The following rec.�sented the staff: City Administrator Bernhardson, Building & Zonin3 .Imin3strator Mahusth, and Assistant Building & Zoning Administrator Gaft 7ohn Shardlow from Dahlgren, Shardlow & Uban was present to repre ^ City The following were also present: Councilmember Same t,rson. Mayor Grabek was in attendance for the late* part of the met, a. INTRODUCTION City Administrator Bernhardson explained that of the seven positions on the Planning Commission there are 3 vacancies and of the remaining four, one member was called out of town and was unable to,nake It back in time for the meeting. Becaus+ of this, the hearing may be conducted as scheduled and listen to pi. : comments, however, no formal action will be able to be taken, therefore, formal action will lm 'iferred until the February 17, 1987 Planning Commission meeting. City Administrator Bernhardson explained the Counci .t their November 26, 1986 meeting, directed staff to dr:.: t a comprehensive plan amendment to incorporate the .hanges in the Highway 12 corridor as indicated at that meeting. Once the Planning Commission has reviewed and made recommendations, the comprehensive plan amendment will be taken to the Council for preliminary approval and then to the Metropolitan C.:urci.. for their apprcval. The Council and Planning Commission will then work on adopting the implementation tools to make the amendment a cribility. Once those tools are in place, the City would then be in a position to accept development plans, ,tc. for this area. City Administrator Dernhardson noted the study area consist - all the lands in Orono e/,uttin, Highway 12 from County Road 6 on tha west to Brown Road North, %.itch ,'..,_ iLuts the City of Long Lake, and three parcels on he east -hi.ch rounded by the cit e of Long Lake .I Wayzata and interspersed by ere of Wayzata. The 9y was undertak< because of numerous inquiries ,,-,it rezoninq from the ...istinq 2-acre rural residential. The study consisted of 9 meetings starting in September 1985 through November 1986. City Administrator Be rdsor. explainee eing th. atuoy process, tha following an inventory a,d anaylsis 1e, the Council 'dentified fou,, prir ipal areas for goals and objectives of the st0y, -a follows: 1. Land use - �dt,ole _and .s, . and trans'tionc hack from Highway 12, if there r ,e changes. 2. Transportation - both through and across th. Highway 12 C. :r for vehicular or non -vehicular traffic. 3. Environmental protection - including Lake Minnetonka and Long ..tka and other natural features of the area.