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-42- by the City during scheduled meeting in December. Staff will seek further clarification to the land use designation for those minor Comprehensive Plan amendments. The final issue discussed during the facilitator-led discussions concerned the proposed Density Transition Ordinance. This matter will be prepared as a case and presented to the Council in December. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that there are roughly 12 changes to the Comprehensive Plan and at least one has to do with land that a developer as requested on a property that they do not own or have a purchase agreement on. That aside the action the Council took last night during the last meeting with the facilitator was to notify people within 250 feet of any land-use change to inform them as to what would be occurring. If he as a homeowner were to have looked at the Comprehensive Plan previously and found it acceptable he may not continue to follow it and then to find out later there was a last minute change he would be very upset. Secondly he did not think that the Planning Commi.s~ion is the required body to hold the public hearing. He felt that the Council needs to hear the ebrm,nents not the Planning Commission, since the Council will be making the final decis[on~ :;Mr. H~driksen stated that he would prefer that the public hear/ng be held in front of the council and tha{iany property owner who is within 350 feet to any of the last minute changes be notified 5~:: City Administrator Norman noted:that the 'C0,uncil did not take any action during the meeting with the facilitator only gavel-directiOn.. All'. action is taken during a regular City Council meeting, which is why the issub was o~ th~:~genda. City Attorney Goodrich explained th:at~'the Statut~;(fg'i: ~dopting a Comprehensive Plan states that the Planning agency shall hold a pUbliC ~d~ng ~nd notice of the public hearing shall be published once at least ten days prior to th~h~ng in:the public newspaper. There is no requirement to notify individual property owne~,~s"~s opp~'~I::!to rezoning. For those reasons he recommended that the Planning Commission b~ di~9¢~d'}p hoidi~'~,}~ublic hearing. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that he had thought t~Planni~::Commission had already held a public hearing regarding the Comprehensive Plan. City Attorney Goodrich replied that the Planning Cornmissi~Sfi~has held several public hearing regarding the Comprehensive Plan, but there have been se~;~l changes to the Plan since the last public hearing and for that reason a new public hearing should be held Councilrnember Anderson stated that she would like to notify residents, but on the other hand there were other land use changes made that individual property owners did not receive notification of. She was concerned that they treat everyone the same. City Attorney Goodrich stated that the City could advertise it in a general sense in the Ramsey Resident, as well as on Cable TV, otherwise they would have to notify every parcel in the City because every parcel is impacted by the Comprehensive Plan. Mayor Gamec inquired as to when the hearing would be scheduled. City Council/November 27, 2001 Page 20 of 22 I ! I I I I I I I I' I I I I I ! I I I