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City of <br /> <br />iver <br /> <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br /> Item # 4.2. <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br /> Mayor and City Council <br /> <br /> Steve Ach, City Planner..~g2 <br /> July 14, 1997 <br /> <br /> Consider Hiring Planning Intern <br /> <br />Three months ago, a request was presented to the City Council to consider <br />advertising for a planning intern position. The Council approved this request <br />and since that time, applications have been reviewed and considered for the <br />planning internship position. After reviewing applications received from <br />Mankato State, St. Cloud State, and the University of Minnesota School of <br />Landscape Architecture, a candidate has been selected to fill the position as <br />the planning intern. <br /> <br />Brady Halverson is a landscape architecture student at the University of <br />Minnesota. Brady is in his third and final year of obtaining his master's in <br />landscape architecture and is expected to graduate in the spring of 1998. <br />Brady has gained experience by working with various landscape contracting <br />companies, as well as technical design skills which will benefit some of the <br />efforts the Planning Department has been wanting to accomplish over the <br />past few years. <br /> <br />The program through the School of Landscape Architecture introduces <br />students to several land use, design and spatial techniques necessary for <br />complementing city planning. For example, Brady has worked on a project <br />through school for the Grey Cloud Island in Washington County which is <br />currently being gravel mined by Shiely Corporation. Brady's involvement <br />included a complete land use analysis and reuse of the current gravel mining <br />operation. This exercise could also be applied to Elk River's situation where <br />the city has roughly 2,500 acres of gravel mining that will ultimately be <br />converted to some other use. I think these types of long range projects are <br />important to begin thinking how these areas can be reutilized consistent with <br />the property owner and city's long range plans. In addition to the gravel <br />mining exercise, various planning tasks and other design projects can be <br />accomplished through this new position. <br /> <br />13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br /> <br /> <br />