City Council & Long Range Planning Commission Meeting January 24, 1994ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 9:10 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL/LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
January 24, 1994
7:00 p.m.
Majestic Room, Five Flags Civic Center
4th & Main StreetS, Dubuque, Iowa
PRESENT; Mayor Terry Duggan; City Council Members Dirk Voetberg, Dan
Nicholson, Loras Kluesner, Bob Nagle, and Joe Robbins; Long Range
Planning Commission Chairperson Dave Rusk; Commissioners Gail
Chavenelle, Carla Crahan, Gordon Mills and Jim Miller; City Manager
Michael Van Milligen, City Clerk Mary Davis; Staff Members Pam
Myhre-Gonyier, Laura Carstens, Guy Hemenway.
ABSENT: City Council Member Katie Krieg; Commissioners Vern Haberkorn, Jeff
Mozena and Anna O'Shea.
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m.
CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE: Staff certified compliance with the Iowa Open
Meetings Law.
REVIEW OF DUBUQUE RIVERFRONT PLAN: Rusk welcomed City Council members. Crahan
introduced members of the Commission's Riverfront Development Subcommittee.
Crahan reviewed the riverfront planning process from 1991-1993, including
opportunities for public input and participation during the Commission's and the
consultants' planning efforts. Crahan then reviewed how Commissioners had
identified their short, mid and long term priorities for the Riverfront Plan's
Action Agenda. Myhre-Gonyier discussed the process for compilation of priority
rankings from City departments and outside groups. She then discussed the
projects listed in the action agenda, beginning with the Commission's short-term
priorities and working through their mid-term and long-term rankings. Staff and
Commissioners discussed that some projects started in the short-term may take
from mid to long term to accomplish.
Commissioners and Council members discussed the level of support, participation
and commitment to the plan by property owners on the 4th Street Peninsula.
Council members also discussed their concerns, including the need for additional
parking for boat trailers at the Hawthorne Street ramp; the need for transient
boat docks; parking needs and possible parking conflicts with the proposed Peosta
Channel dam/bridge; the possibility that there may be better uses for the 4th
Street Peninsula, but that the City must find appropriate new locations for
existing businesses; the need to make local residents more aware of the resource
they have in the Mississippi River; the possibility of vertical storage of grain
at Peavey Company to utilize land more productively; the need to include
businesses outside the 4th Street Peninsula in plan's implementation process; and
support for the City Manager's suggestions of an internal working group of City
departments and a 4th Street Redevelopment Roundtable to implement the plan.
Crahan tested the Commission's priorities with the City Council; there were no
indications of changes to be made. Consensus of Council members was to schedule
a public hearing and adoption of the plan in March or April), 1994. C.c
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Pamela Myhre-Gonyier, Asso'1 ate Planner