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CITY OF GEM LAKE, MN _ 4707 Hwy 61 # 253 White Bear Lake, MN 55110-3227 Telephone 651-747-2790 Planning Commission Minutes, 12-4-2007 Planning Commission Chair Jim Lindner opened the December meeting at 7:30PM (due to inclement weather) in the White Bear Town Hall. Commissioners Lindner and Craig Rafferty and alternate commissioner Beth Herzog were present. Also present was Paul Emeott. Moratorium While the Planning Commission did not endorse the moratorium for the areas Marc Putman developed his guidelines for (with the addition of the CR E/Highway 61 intersection NE quadrant) which the City Council adopted in November, tonight the Planning Commission gave its tacit approval of the moratorium. No motion was offered as this is after the fact, but we wanted to give the Council our endorsement of their actions as we agree it allows the city the time needed to best fit our new "Gateway" vision into our planning documents without having to address individual development requests that may not concur with the vision the city seeks to develop. Marc Putman At the December 3, 2007 City Council workshop, Marc Putman offered a list of services and the prices of said services for the city to consider (more on this to follow later in these minutes). The Planning Commission recommends working with Marc Putman to help clarify our intent for the Gateway vision, mainly by allowing mixed use to "spill over" into some areas of Bryan Hansen's current parcel that would allow for commercial development along County Road E (which Putman's guidelines currently identify as residential). Paul Emeott asked, "How will Putman's guidelines impact future zoning?" The Planning Commission will seek to define the areas covered by Putman's planning efforts as the Gem Lake Gateway Special Planning District (see the November, 2007 PC minutes) and break the area into sub -planning areas A-E as identified by Marc Putman. (This will expand to include sub -planning area F once Putman sketches the NE quadrant of the E/61 intersection.) Housing Chairman Lindner instructed the Planning Commission to review section 9.0 of the 1997 comprehensive plan "Housing" and come to the January, 2008 meeting ready to discuss. Paul Emeott said the City Council is working on a housing code which he will forward to the planning commission. Section 9.2 of the 1997 comp plan reflects housing goals and policies which when revised for our 2008 plan will drive the objectives of our new plan's housing section. Comprehensive Plan Marc Putman has offered to assist Gem Lake and SEH in crafting language to incorporate his guidelines into out Comp Plan. Beth cautioned that some of Putman's guidelines may Look for us on the World Wide Web at gemlakemn.org