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ty of � MEMORANDUM <br /> 1k • <br /> River TO: Planning Commission <br /> FROM: Steve Ach, City Planner <br /> DATE: January 11, 1997 <br /> SUBJECT: Planning Commission Annual Meeting <br /> Included in your packet is a variety of backup information which will help <br /> facilitate discussion of some of the agenda items. The first two items are <br /> copies of minutes from last year's Planning Commission annual meeting, as <br /> well as the joint meeting the Planning Commission had with the City <br /> Council. This will be helpful for those Commission members that were not <br /> present at the meeting(s). <br /> Item No. 7& 8 <br /> • The Planning Commission's goals and workshop topics set for 1996 were for <br /> the most part, accomplished with the exception of goal no. 3 and workshop <br /> topics no. 2 and no. 5. The Planning Commission did not have a joint <br /> meeting with the Park & Recreation Commission in 1996 as they did in 1995. <br /> Talking with Dave Anderson of the Park & Rec Commission, he believes a <br /> joint meeting with the Planning Commission would be helpful for both <br /> groups. As far as the workshop topic regarding the downtown, this issue was <br /> placed on the back burner following the departure of Bill Rubin, economic <br /> development coordinator. Since this issue would involve the Economic <br /> Development Authority and Housing & Redevelopment Authority, it would <br /> be critical to have the new Economic Development Director on board prior to <br /> commencing this project. I suspect this issue will once again receive a lot of <br /> attention in 1997. In fact, the Strategic Planning Task Force identified the <br /> downtown as one of the top four economic development priorities for the <br /> upcoming years. <br /> One of the workshop topics the Commission identified for 1996 was to plan a <br /> mobile workshop. I thought the workshop was a great opportunity for the <br /> Commission to experience first-hand (and as a group) several issues <br /> discussed in staff reports and presented at Planning Commission meetings. <br /> Hopefully, two or three mobile workshops can be arranged in 1997 to <br /> evaluate projects that the Commission has reviewed. I would like to also <br /> . utilize the mobile workshop to visit developments in other communities that <br /> 13065 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 490 • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441-7420 • Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br />