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Special meeting City of Gem Lake City Council – Friday, June 3, 2016 Page 1 <br /> <br />City of Gem Lake Special City Council Meeting <br />Friday, June 3, 2016, 7:00 p.m. <br />Heritage Hall, 4200 Otter Lake Road, Gem Lake <br /> <br /> <br />Mayor Uzpen called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Councilmembers Bosak, Kuny and <br />Lindner were present. Councilmember Artig-Swomley was excused. Others in attendance: <br />City Attorney; Pat Kelly; residents Beth Hansen, Tom Hansen and Susan Pratt. Matt Johnson, <br />Landmark Development and Len Pratt, area business owner. <br /> <br />June 3, Agenda <br />A motion was made by Councilmember Lindner seconded by Councilmember Bosak to <br />approve the agenda. Motion passed. <br /> <br />Public Hearing <br />None <br /> <br />New Business <br />Temporary Ordinance 127 Moratorium for Residential Development. <br /> <br />The City of Gem Lake has been working on updating a number of ordinances since February, <br />2016. The ordinances haven’t been updated for 9-10 years and need to be completed and <br />updated prior to the Comprehensive Plan update for 2018. Section 5 of Ordinance 127 allows <br />for a variance. Section 4 states the terms of the Duration. Five local cities were consulted as to <br />the duration of their moratorium and the moratorium duration was mirrored after those cities. <br /> <br />Councilmember Bosak inquired as to the status of the ordinance updates. Councilmember <br />Lindner, a member of the group working on the ordinances, stated that they have made quite a <br />bit of progress on the ordinances, with a meeting scheduled for next week and then an update <br />to the City Council at the scheduled workshop on June 13, 2016. <br /> <br />Tom Hansen, inquired as to: who called the meeting, was the calling of the meeting following <br />the appropriate notice, why the area in question was targeted, who would the moratorium <br />serve and his current proposal for development would dissolve because of the ordinance. <br /> <br />Attorney Kelly responded in regard to the appropriate notice. Minnesota Statutes §13D.04, <br />subd2. The clerk must also post written notice of the date, time, place and purpose of the <br />special meeting on the principal bulletin board of the city. A principal bulletin board must be <br />located in a place reasonably accessible to the public. If the city does not have a principal <br />bulletin board, the notice must be posted on the door of its usual meeting room. Notice of <br />special meetings must be posted at least three days before the date of the meeting.