LAKEWOOD COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE
STEERING COMMITTEE
DRAFT MEETING SUMMARY
October 2, 2007
Members Present
Shannon Ostazeski Phil Halverson
Kevin Bovee Brian Hayden
Wendy Robertson Bob Shaw
Inese Holte Bill Wilson
Jerry Lipe Pete Weidman
Gwen Updegraff Kilian Ottman
Jesse Schomberg
Review Agenda
Pete Weidman requested time to talk about a presentation Jesse Schomberg gave on community development exercise. Pete thought it might be something the Steering Committee would be interested in doing.
Review/approve 9/18/07 Meeting Summary
Summary was approved with two corrections in the section “Conflict of Interest Discussion”. The reference to conflict of interest was dropped in the title and in the first paragraph any reference to conflict was dropped and issue was substituted. In the second paragraph the word “several” was changed to “two or three”.
Concerns from the Audience
Greg Fullmer, Jeff Bruckelmyer, Jeff Levine, and Tim Huchthausen attended the meeting to express their concern about the lack of commercial, retail areas in the Township and the eroding of private property rights. They would like to have commercial retail opportunities for local businesses in the LIU zone off the expressway.
Community Development Exercise
Jesse have a brief overview of the exercise and how it helps making the link from planning to implementation. The Committee would like to have Jesse take them through the exercise at their October 16th meeting and agreed to start the meeting a 6:30 PM to allow more time. Jesse agreed to do the presentation.
Complete Vision Statement
The Committee used the “Summary of Small Group Input” as a framework for their discussions:
Economic/livelihoods
Home Business/Occupation: The Committee agreed to viewpoint 1, where home businesses and occupations exist in the township and are not encouraged or discouraged.
Commercial Development: The following points were discussed; however, no agreements were reached before the meeting adjourned:
· Group 3 clarified viewpoint 2 in that they included the existing businesses along the Jean Duluth Road and Strand Road as part on the existing commercial base in the township. They are proposing no additional commercial development outside the existing commercial base and adding the potential of commercial node development at these sites.
· Currently, the sites along Jean Duluth and Strand Roads are in a residential zone and have either been grandfathered in or allowed by Conditional Use (This relates to Concept 5 of 1985 revision).
· Suggestion that Goal 3 and the first two policies in the revised 1985 Comp. Plan goals be used omitting the reference to growth.
· Pointed out that the 2007 Resident Survey as well as previous survey indicated that commercial uses were not a high priority and little expansion were wanted; 75% of people work in Duluth.
Meeting Adjourned at 9:00 PM