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Special City Council Meeting Page 2 February 19, 1996 1 • Chamber of Commerce President Dennis Chuba distributed a handout entitled Development in Areas Imprisoned by Urban Service Area Boundaries. It was noted that the Chamber suggestions do not apply strongly to residential uses, but do apply strongly to opportunities for commercial/industrial uses in the urban district prior to utilities being available. Discussion of the four Chamber suggestions related to commercial/industrial (C/I) uses took place...the City Engineer indicated that it could be possible to measure the flow of septic discharge from facilities, but that there would be a concern about potential reuses of a building...the City Attorney stated that it is very difficult for something to be legally binding whereby a property owner would sign off to pay future assessments and also noted the future political issue of allowing a rural development pattern and then municipal sewer and water (with assessments) coming into the area at a later date...the Mayor indicated that many good industrial uses need sewer and water and that the city is out of industrial land that has municipal utilities...a number of Planning Commission members supported the concept of allowing C/I development only if the city could get a commitment that sewer and water assessments will be paid in the future...Councilmember Holmgren indicated his support for maintaining a ten acre minimum in the residential areas before utilities become available and indicated his support for keeping non-urban development out of the urban district until utilities become available in order to protect the integrity of the future urban district along Highway 10...Councilmember Farber concurred in his support for the ten acre minimum in the residential zone, but indicated he would 0 be willing to look at non-urban uses in the C/I zone on a case-by-case bases...it was noted that the current city policy is a pro-growth, aggressive plan that reserves and protects land for future urban growth opportunities... Councilmember Dietz indicated that he could see both sides of the issue and indicated his concern about whether or not sewer and water utilities could be afforded by land owners if rural development takes place in the urban district...the Mayor concurred with Councilmember Dietz and indicated that if a great deal of rural C/I development takes place along Highway 10, then the city may never get municipal utilities into this area. Furthermore, he hopes to have a public hearing in May on the extension of municipal utilities to this corridor. The Mayor summarized the discussion by indicating that no final conclusions have been made at this time. There cur,ently is a formal request that will go to the Planning Commission and then to the City Council regarding the city's policy for development in the urban district prior to municipal utilities being available. On a different topic, the Mayor summarized his recent conversations with Rich Duggan whereby Mr. Duggan would like to expand his Marketech business to a larger facility. The goal of Mr. Duggan is to purchase land for the construction of a facility, but Mr. Duggan is having problems locating industrially zoned land. One site discussed was south of Highway 10 in the very eastern part of the city off of a service road. This property is currently zoned highway business and has a few different types of existing businesses. The Planning Commission indicated