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<br />I' 7ft.... <br />I Date: January 13, 1997 <br />,. To: City Council <br /> ~rom: Lois Pem, 1670 G1enview Court <br />I Re: Ogren Townhomes & Zoning/Land Use Issues <br />I Last Tuesday evening I sat through your interviews of Planning <br /> Commission candidates, and I found the process quite interesting. <br /> As you all said, the candidates were well qualified, and your choice <br />I was not easy. Your questions to each of them were very good, and <br /> your final discussion showed the seriousness with which you took the <br /> decisions you made that night. <br />I One part of your interviews somewhat surprised me, however. <br /> Mayor Probst asked each candidate if he or she had been aware of the <br /> situation with the Ogren townhomes and what, in his or her <br />I estimation, might have been done to make that process less <br /> difficult, In answering that question, several candidates asked if <br /> there had been "zoning or land use issues" involved, and council <br />I repeatedly indicated there had not been, <br /> I was a bit discouraged by this evidence of the shortness of <br />Ie the collective memory regarding that memorable case, and I would <br /> like to correct that memory and the record. <br />I Please note that in mid February 1995 the city sent to <br /> residents AND pUblished in the Focus News notices for TWO public <br /> hearings, one "for a site plan review and PUD Master Plan," the <br />I other "to amend the land use plan of the city comprehensive plan .. . <br /> from open space to low density residential." Contrary to later <br /> representations, the problem was not simply that residents had been <br />I wrong to assume the vacant corner was open space and just didn't <br /> want to give it up-- they relied not only on their own memories of <br /> previous hearings concerning that land but ALSO on the city's own <br />I pUblic hearing notice for this very development. <br /> I would like to read for you from the minutes of the March 1, <br /> 1995, Planning Commission meeting, pages 13-14. <br />I Then, briefly, to complete your dealings on this case, I'll <br /> review some excerpts from the Council minutes of March 27, 1995, <br />I pages 12-14. <br /> So, the issue of Planning Case 95-12, Comprehensive Plan <br />I Amendment, has not come to council again since March 27, 1995f. Is <br /> this question, then, still open pending review and updating of the <br />f' Comprehensive Plan? <br />I <br />