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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 5, 2018 Page 10 Ms. Erin Purdue, WSB, reviewed the Comprehensive Plan draft edits with the City Council. Mayor Roe stated one of the items mentioned in the request for Council action al- so was an update as a result of the two meetings the Council had in the last week or so related to the site around HarMar and Lexington and Larpenteur. He asked if there was an update that could be provided to the City Council or how that might have been incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Lloyd stated staff did not have anything formal to present to the City Council but there were two sessions on a particular Wednesday two weeks ago and there were close to thirty people overall in attendance at one or the other meeting. A large part of the meeting was for the opportunity to ask questions and to engage in a dialogue with staff. The meetings seemed to be very productive for staff to phrase in different and better ways what the Comprehensive Plan is trying to do and what it is not trying to do. He stated in the end he came away feeling that there was some good progress in that understanding and gaining comfort, but it did not lead to any amendments or changes in the draft of the Comprehensive Plan but maybe laid the groundwork for what kind of engagement the City might expect on the zoning update this coming year. Ms. Purdue thought that summed it up well. She stated there was a good turnout with a lot of discussion and the meeting was positive with specifics about what will happen based on this in the Zoning Ordinance and what that might mean for future development. She thought the explanation of what the Comprehensive Plan was intended to generate at those sites was pretty positive. There were not any changes made to the document based on those comments but there was a lot of good information for staff to keep considering moving ahead into the zoning process. She noted staff did talk about making sure there is a public process for the zoning updates that are going to take place in 2019 and making sure that eve- rybody that was notified for the meetings gets notified of the zoning process as well. Mayor Roe thought there were a couple of land plots that had an incorrect land use type on the map that may or may not impact what is in the Comprehensive Plan documents. Ms. Purdue stated that was correct and staff will double check all of that. Councilmember Laliberte stated she was unable to attend those meetings but some feedback she heard was that some people were frustrated they were not in the circle or invite space. She stated people on the Hamline Avenue side of Har- Mar assumed there would be an invite, but the notification did not go that far down and there were a couple of comments to the other extreme by the Lexington area that the City did not go west enough to include some people who assumed