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Principal Planner Trudgeon explained that those requests were on a different timeline be6'~e. separate applications were submitted. Councqlmember Hendriksen stated that there seems to a be a policy issue with~::sthe Council approving a Comprehensive Plan amendment on Tuesday night and the~;:ti'd~dingi'},~a:public hearing for additional Comprehensive Plan amendments on a Thursday ni .gh~'~/~,i;?He state'~-'.'i~t it seems that the Comprehensive Plan process has become a weekly pro~e~7§!~?f0r the quested when it had become an uns¢oken policy to change the Compeehensi~)~Pian process being a long range-planmng tool to a Plan of the week . _:.,'-:.:~;!~:;"~i~5~; Principal Planner Trudgeon replied that the City has been i~t~3}°cess of:~tempting to approve the Comprehensive Plan for some time and in December ~'!:P,-'i~~& was adOPted, but there had also been considerable discussion regarding land use chartg~}:~t were not~:;~flressed as of yet. He explained that anytime a developer or a property ow~:¢~its and Iand~g:"~,ange the City has to act on those requests. :" '~="~z, ~:}!'i::~'~ ":¢': ' Councilmember Hendriksen stated that what he was suggesting~i*':!that there should be some sense that when the Comprehensive Plan is approved land use char~gi"reques~:~hould have to wait until the next comprehensive pl~:iS: a,, :. p:p.roved. Now: the City is i~ia:::~ituition:,: ,.:~:, where they sent an amendment to the Met,.C6'~mJc/~"6n:i}~iiesday and now they ~:~;"handling 14 more amendments only two nights }a{g~'/E~'did noi'{~n'~-.'ihat was an org~d way to handle the situation and questioned how r3daents ~:,keep inform~}'f:.{i~'~V:a~e:~ways chang/ng things. Principal Planner Trud=eon replied that ~':i~e~ :t~at it wa~:Sr~:6't the typical way of handling things, but explairted¢::that because of the::'6~CU~stances th~=~ have found themselves in th/s situation. Many. 6.~thb¢~c[t~ests before them'~i~cI to be ~considered as official requests. Councilme~t~:~; HendriksenS estioned i~ the said no to any of the requests. Chai~:~:i;~::Nixt stated ~i:¢~e Comprehen~}"Plan process has been going on since 1997 and they have tak~gn::Sihe ~:~i:6':~e0al~t~ ~.'~es during that time, but the City had been, until recently, been h~¢ihg.;i~ comply withy~'~1993 Comprehensive Plan ~vhich was the reason for ~ve~i-~i'~io£ the amend~'.e~'ts: The particular Comprehensive Plan they are looking to amend is the DecemB~g8,. 200g in which the City received approval of fi.om the Met Council. ~:~!'~;' Over the~'~3¢eral months": t Plan was being discussed the City received several requests x;/' regarding tanc[:use and that ~s:what they are acting on. :~':,,~ Commissioner J~hnson noted that they were not going to be malting any decisions regarding the ~ ~'.:: amendments dtiff~g this meetin~ and were there to take public comments and requested that they ':7z;:~_proceed wit~ttiat. Chakperi0n Nixt ver/fied that the meeting was a properly notified public hearing. · :: .5~ Pr/2ciPal Planner Trudgeon replied that that was correct. -236- Planning Commission Joint Meetin~January 24, 2002 Page 3 of 15