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Joint City Council - Planning Commission Meeting 8:30 - 10:00
Present: Weyrens, Dehler, Schneider, Husen (Council)
Ben Kremer, Margaret Kelly, Marlene Klett (Commission)
~ Roman Reber
John Miller (Ex. Div. APO)
Mr. John Miller of the Area Planning Orginization, outlined the procedure for
updating the City of st. Joseph Comprehensive Plan. The basic elements of
this process are three major steps:
1 ) Inventory and Analysis
A) people - age, labor, employment, lncome, etc.
B) goverment - planning, taxes, expenditures, serVlces
C) land - types, water, geography
D) land use - zoning, streets, easements
2) Goals - 5 to 10 year plan
3) Actual plan and Implementation
One key factor for inventory and analysis and implementation of actual plan
is citizen imput. This can by accomplished through a general citizen's
Questionaire. A number of considerations for the survey are:
- Mailing Procedure: include survey with next water billing
(late July or early August)
- Need for return postage and envelope for surveyor designation
of places for depositing completed surveys (Bank, City Hall,
or others)
- Need for publicity of survey in Hitching Post.
- Time limit for returning survey (3 weeks)
- - Final approval of survey before mailing (Approval by Mayor,
- Chairman of Commission, and 3 others before printing and mailing.)
During the general discussion of both the updating procedures and the type
of questions in the survey a number of relevant points were brought forth.
They were:
- Time factor of the complete program for sending of survey,
analysis of survey and inventory of city, statement of goals,
and implementation of plan should by estimated at 8 months.
- There is a need for Public Hearings to allow for legal status
of program and greater citizen imput.
- In early stage of analysis, at time of review of survey, a
prelimenary public hearing, not required by law, would prove to
be benificial.
- The letter-head on the survey, short and to the point, should
state the purpose of the survey and convey the importance of
completion of survey. It should also bear the signatures of the
Mayor and the Chairman of the Commission.
- Is there a need for a moritorium of issuance of building permits,
or a moritorium of re-zoning of tracts of land, during the
process of updating comprehensive plan.
Part of the general discussion centered on actual questions to be asked in
the survey. Mr. Miller presented an example of a survey, namely the Le Sauk
Township Survey. Attached to this report is a list of questions and changes,
based on the example, that should appear in the st. Joseph Survey.
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Mike Husen
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· Survey Questions and Changes
1) Page 1 of LeSauk Survey is accepted for st. Joseph with the following
changes:
- Add: "where did you move from . . . ?
- Change "roads" to "streets"
- Add: "what do you think of the "alleys"?
2) Opinions: "What do you think . . ?
A) of access to 75 via streets, or via alleys?
- more, less, other
B) What of water service - taste, pressure, odor?
C) of sewer service - sanitary and storm?
D) of a stoplight on 75 and College Avenue?
E) of the speedlimit on 75?
F) of the use of parks?
G) of parking - on and off street parking
- during snow removal
- municipal lot for parking?
3) General Questions
A) How do you move about town?
B) Recreational Programs that are now or not now offered?
C) Suggest names for parks
D) Zoning for more or less Commercial Property
· E) Willingness to pay higher taxes for greater services demanded.
F) More Police Protection·
4) Optional Questions:
Age,
lncome,
home owner,
. renter,
others
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