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Special Interest <br />Articles: <br /> <br />• Comprehensive Plan <br />Presented <br /> <br />• Water Plan – Part 2 <br /> <br />• City News, Page 4 <br />Upcoming Recycling <br />Dates: <br /> <br />• June 1 <br /> <br />• June 15 <br /> <br />• June 29 <br /> <br />• July 13 <br /> <br />• July 27 <br /> <br />Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan Presented <br /> <br />Are you curious about what Gem Lake might look <br />like in 2040? There will be a joint meeting of the <br />Gem Lake City Council and the Gem Lake Planning <br />Commission on May 17 to present the final draft of <br />the Gem Lake 2020 Comprehensive Plan. <br /> <br />Gem Lake submitted its draft plan on time, as <br />required by the Metropolitan Council. Each <br />municipality in the metro area must submit a plan <br />every ten years to this agency that deals with long- <br />term planning for areas such as housing and <br />development, transportation, water sources, septic <br />and sewer planning, demographic and employment <br />trends, etc. The plan projects some items as far <br />ahead as 2040. It is not unusual for plan approval to <br />take several years. Please join us to learn more <br />about the Gem Lake of the future. The meeting will <br />start at 7:00 p.m. at Heritage Hall. See page 3 for <br />some highlights of the current plan. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />City Clean Up Day is May 21 <br /> <br />Meet your neighbors and help clean up the city! <br />Gem Lake will once again sponsor a city clean-up <br />day on Saturday May 21, starting at 9:00 a.m. The <br />event will have two parts – a street clean-up and a <br />“trash to treasure” exchange. <br /> <br />For the street clean-up, you can stop by Heritage <br />Hall between 9:00 a.m.-Noon to pick up industrial <br />strength trash bags. Then, you pick a street or block <br />you want to clean up. Your filled bags can then be <br />left in the Heritage Hall parking lot. At noon, hot <br />dogs, chips and soft drinks will be available for your <br />hungry crew. <br />The second part of the event is called “Trash to <br />Treasure”. Put any useable items you are longing to <br />give away at the end of your driveway in the <br />morning. Put a sign on the item that clearly marks <br />your items as “FREE”. You can also drive around <br />and see what everyone else has put out—maybe <br />you will see some treasure. You will be responsible <br />for hauling your things back from the street at the <br />end of the day in the unlikely event that nobody falls <br />in love with them. This event will run from 9:00 a.m. <br />to 4:00 p.m. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Gem Lake News <br />May 2022 | Volume 16 | Issue 3 Gretchen Artig-Swomley, Newsletter Editor <br />