Agenda - Council - 09/25/2001 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I I I, I I I I Case #11: City Administrator Norman stated that the City contracted with a facilitator assist the City with major issues such as the Comprehensive Plan and Bakken has been working with the City Council, both individually and work S'~ions to resolve a number of issues surrounding the Comprehensive Plan and the most recent work session, held on August 16, 2001 the facilitator progress report to the City Council for formal consideration, is bein prepared and will be distributed to the Council prior to the of August 16, 2001, there appeared to be a majority of willing to continue the talks in order to achieve an eventual compromise on:~i:7:ii~sues be'~,...discussed. The city Council may consider such issues as a time frame fi' ch the dis n should take place, parameters of the issues being discussed, and the ev~n'ffi~.i~ii~el..ihood .o~:i~?~romise on any or · ~;'.. ~::~. .~.'.'4~':,:,'~,_ - :~'~,~' all of the ~ssues. ~i;'(;~:..,?~?" · progress. ..-,, .::!;5? Fred Mertens, 7404 149"' Avenue/ R~s~'Y';"~d ,that the Council e~ii~enied-- a rezoning request, but ifthe Council adop!S the P~osed C~'~ Sire Plan the C~uncil will in fact grant Councilmember Hendriksen replied that b~l:i.dra~f the C6"- ~'~ensive alan identify the land as being either zoned industrial or places to'~i~k':" " Mr. Mertens St~-ted that the proposed Comprehe~sjue'{Plan proposes an area north of C.R. gl 16 to be rezoned t0 medium densitY:which would take(~y an area of good tax base for the City. He suggested that if the Council:is not making::;any"Progress on a new Comprehensive Plan then maybe the City"should stay'With'the old ~lafi?:?' Councilmember Hendriksen inquired if the Mayor was in favor of ceasing discussions on the Comprehensive ?lan~ ' Mayor Gamec replied that in' his opinion they are not achieving anything by meeting with the facilitator. He stated that they start to negotiate and assume they are making progress only to find out they am getting nowhere. Review Facilitator-Led Comprehensive Plan Negotiations and Conside~i ~::~ Continuation of Talks to Councilmember Zimmerman stated that disagreement is nothing new in Government and he felt that there has been some agreement on some of the issues. He stated that if they don't discuss the differences they will never come to an agreement. Nobody can guarantee that they will come to.an, agreement, but they should continue to work on it. City Council/August 28, 2001 Page 31 of 35 -81-