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COMBINED MEETING Burns Township, Oak GroVe Township, City of Ham Lake, City of East Bethel, Grow Township and ~Ramsey Township ~ JUly 31, 1974 This combined meeting was called to order at 7:30 by Grow Town- ship Chairman, Mr. Richard Schneider, at the Grow Town Hall. The chairmen and mayors of the six communities present were asked to come up to the front platform at the beginning of the meeting. Elk River Township had also been invited but no one was present from this township. Mr. Schneider welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming. He said Grow was proud of their new town hall. Mr. Cox had drawn up a list of items which could be taken up at this meeting. He said he thought their hall was fantastic and complimented Grow on the nice blacktop outside in the parking area. He said the comments on the two sheets of paper represen- ted some ideas that had been'discussed in the past but was not a format for this meeting. He said he was very pleased and appre- ciated the fact that the Planning and Zoning Commissions and the Building Inspectors from these communities were present. He said decisions made by the Planning and Zoning Commission were very important and should be recognised as such. He said the problems of these six communities are similar in many areas. These com- munities should be working together in naming streets which go across many communities. Decisions are often made in one com- munity which affect the surrounding communities. Roads, for in- stance, are one item that affect our neighboring communities. Railroad trains can affect us all when they tie up the roads leading south. The people who are making decisions today will affect the people who may move into the community, or buy land or a business in the future. Mr. Cox said the items on this list were not recommendations but he feels they are items which should be discussed by these six communities. He said he was not recommending anything. If Grow and Ramsey Townships went to 20 acres per house, it would force the present development into Burns~and Oak Grove Townships. Ur- ban sprawl is being brought about'because of what is going on in the communities to the south of us. If Grow and Ramsey Townships went to 20 acres per house and Burns Township was one acre, then people would go up to Burns Township. Tax Base: We all recognise the important of the tax base. Some- times things are being handled by some communities that could benefit other areas. Metro Transit would have cost us about $24,000 and we would still not have had any bus service. Mr. Ed. Fields found out about this situation and notified us in time to prevent our getting drawn into this. Police, fire and trail systems are other things on which we could work together. Ford Brook goes into Burns and if ~they had a trail system and Ramsey didn't~ it wouldn't make a very good trail system. Hiawatha Creek is an example of good planning and it would not be as it is today without it.