Agenda - Planning Commission - 03/02/1993

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I I I I I I I I I I I ! I I I I STATUS OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING BY: City Engineer Steven Jankowski CASE # 5 Subsequent to the discussion of this issue at the February 16, 1993 Planning and Zoning Commission imeeting, I met with the Finance Committee on February 23 and presented the Commission'S request for a public hearing on the element of the plan which anticipates the reroutmg of ,Trunk H~ghway #47 down Ramsey Boulevard to the future Mzss~ss ppz R~ver crossing. ThC Finance Committee is a committee of the whole Council. I presented information similar to that which was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission on February 16, which includ4~d the need for a comprehensive revision of the entire transportation and land use elements of the plan. As a result of their discussion, the Committee made a recommendation to proceed with~the revision of both the City's Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan elements. Finding for revising the land use element is expected to come from the City's annual CommunityDevelopment Block Grant, while the transportation element is to come from surplus revenues from the City's 1992 fiscal year. I did point ot~t to the Committee that the Planning and Zoning Commission felt strongly about quickly amen~iing this single element of the plan immediately under the premise that the longer this element rem.ains, the more permanency becomes attached to it. It was the opinion of the Committee that this issue along with the others would receive more thorough consideration if addressed as ia part of the comprehensive review, and that dealing with it separately would be needlessly redundant. Review Checklist: P&Z: 3/2/93 City Engineer Zoning Administrator 21