City Council - 09/07/1965 - Joint Meeting Join-. Meetin:- 7 September, 1.965
"he Council, Zoning ?c Flanninn i Commssion, Park 'c Recreation
Commission, and school Poard met in the Eden Prairie Village-
Hall at 9:20 P. 1�.
Present were:
Donald A. 'Rogers, Mayor Donald R. Nygaard
Kenneth E. Anderson Frances Jlacklock
James C. Brown, Ci erk Howard 1J. Merriman
A. W. Viller Ernest Hone
David -r'. Dale Gordon Englund
Cecil C. Cruse Paul Menge
Dr. John H. igright :carry Picha
1131ph J. Nesbitt Patrick Casey
Also Present:
S
Veir Wood, Supt. of Eden Prairie School
James Ha;.rkes, Village Planner
,uenti.n K. Wood., Village Engineer
�l i) ?7ER CF BUS.LNESS:
1 r. iawkes ;rave background information on Village plan-
ning and the work that has been done; updating base map, roads
and accesses, updatinf7 zoning plat ordinance.
Yr. ''awkes Presented Lnformation on the HHFA 701 program
for planning under this program; the Federal government would
pay ?/3 and the Village 1,/3 for a specific planning program.
7e es imated that such a program. for Eden Prairie would cost
tween 20 and 25 thousand dollars; of this amount between 1.0
and 15 nercent would ;o for the cost of makIns7 reports to the
Federal government. The Federal government acts as the con-
troller of time used to do phase of the program.
`tne Village could carry on a program of planning without
Federal help and intervention, in this case the Village would
be the., controller and determine how fast or slow a phase of
the pl:3nning sho-ld �o.
Olrerall planning is a basic responsibility of the Village
becausf; the Village and the Eden Prairie School hoard work
:for many of the same people (the taxpayers in that part of the
Tillage contiguous with Eden Prairie School District ;#272),
i;lis s'ioul_d be a co-ordinated effort so that a school is not
oin,* into a factory area or a road to serve a school site in
not b�_: i.lt to a non-school site.
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Joint Meeting --- 2 7 September, 1965
the School Roard is to make a recommendation to the
Council on the basic planning program.
Lana enforcement in the .area was discussed. Me school
has problems, the industrial and cormercial people have pro-
blems, and the individual citi?en has problems; we have reach-
ed the point in =growth and development where we are going to
have to malce a decision as an incorporated area we can no
longer look to someone else to do our ,-fob. Whatetrer is done
will not be free.
We are asking the school board to make a reconrnendation
to us -- based on what they feel they would need in law enforce-
ment services. Also they are invited to : ttend meeting of Sept.
14p 1.965,, where Inspector Arnold, Hennepin County Sheriffs Dept.
will present proposals to the Village.
The Council wants to thank all who participated in the
Special meetinr
d
mes C. Brown, Clerk
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