Minutes Long Range Pl 5 15 02 MINUTES
LONG RANGE PLANNING ADVISORY COMMISSION
MAY 15, 2002
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Carnegie Stout Library
360 W. 11th Street, Dubuque, Iowa
PRESENT: Chairperson Mary Lynn Neumeister; Commissioners: Dave Rusk, Charles
Winterwood, Floyd Schneider, Rick Stein and Mike Portzen; Staff
Members: Laura Carstens and Lisa Sesterhenn.
ABSENT: Commissioner: Roy Buol.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.
CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE
Staff presented an Affidavit of Compliance verifying that the meeting was being held in
cempliance with the Iowa Open Meetings Law.
MINUTES
Motion by Stein, seconded by Winterwood to approve the meeting minutes of 4/17/02
with the correction of changing Commissioner Schneider from "Absent~ to "Present~
passed unanimously.
ACTION ITF-~
Proposed Land Use Map
Carstens reviewed the changes that were made to the Proposed Land Use Map at the
request of Commissioners. After reviewing the map, Commissioners requested that
staff make the following changes to the Proposed Land Use Map: change date on map,
ETJ Boundary should not include Wisconsin or Illinois, agriculture should not be shown
as a land use in the City limits, and the color for the Rural Residential land use should
be changed as it is too close to Agriculture. Staff will revise the Map for review by the
Commission in June.
Community Indicators for Success
Sesterhenn reviewed the status of the project and the attempts that have been made to
gather the data for the indicators as approved by the Commission and the City Council.
Based on the research and data gathering efforts made to date, Sesterhenn stated that
she categorized the indicators in three ways: indicators that data has/can be
completed, recommended new indicators, and indicators recommended for deletion.
Commissioners reviewed each of the indicators and made recommendations for each
of the 14 categories of the indicators. Commissioners also recommended that staff
provide state, national, and state-urban area data for comparison wherever possible.
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MAlSONI~iTTEE REPORTR
..J..oint City/County Plannin,q Committee
Staff reported that the staff-level working group is continuing to develop a draft
agreement incorporating the changes proposed by the City Manager, Council Member
Michalski, and the Board of Supervisors.
Downtown Piannin,q Committe~,
Rusk reported that the Downtown Planning Committee is moving forward with an RFP
for a consultant for the master planning process. He also stated that funds are not
available from the Iowa Depa~h~ent of Economic Development until after 7/1/02.
EnterPrise Zone Commission - No report.
ITEMS FROM CO~MISSlON
Chairperson Neumeister noted that the =Back to the Future' article distributed in the
April agenda packets highlighted the importance of updating the Zoning Ordinance.
She suggested that the Tallahassee firm mentioned in the article be contacted for a
cost estimate at the appropriate time in the budget cycle.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:56 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Sesterhenn, Assistant Planner Adopted