Land
Management Code
Work
Group
Meeting Minutes
February 5, 2008
4:30 pm
Members Present: Co Chair Lib Fetting, Alderwoman Hall, Alderman Imhoff,
Brad Benna, Bill Brennan, Bryan
Burke,
William Hall, Jason Judd, Carol Kimm, Bunny LaDouceur, Reidd Hammond, Belinda Morton, Tamar Osterman, Michael Proffitt, Jim Racheff, Anne Rollins, Cheryl Rybicki
Jim Schmershal, Chris Smariga, Robert Smariga, Carl Thomas, Chris Weaver
Staff Present:
Citizens Present: Ashley Mancinclli
Recap of Agenda:
1.
Welcome and
Introductions
2.
Elected
Officials
3.
Chairman
Remarks
4.
Staff
Comments
5.
Voting
Process
i.
Simple
Majority or other percentage?
ii.
Reports with
majority recommendations and minority opinion
6.
Public
Comment
i.
Only 10 or 15
minutes at end of meeting
ii.
2 or 3
minutes per person
7.
Approval of
January 15, 2008 Minutes
8.
Review of
Article 1- General Provisions
9.
Review of
Article 2 – Administrative Agencies
10. Public comment
11. Next Meeting Date
1.
Welcome and
Introductions
Co Chair Lib Fetting welcomed everyone to the first work meeting of the LMC Work Group. She asked that everyone introduce themselves one more time.
2.
Elected Officials
Elected Officials had no comments to make at this time.
3.
Chairman
Remarks
Co Chair Fetting had no comments at this time.
4.
Staff
Comments
Also for discussion was how the group was going to function. Two options were presented:
1) The entire group will work line by line through the entire document.
2) The entire group will work through the LMC to identify major flaws
a. Staff will be directed to prepare a draft for review by the workgroup
b. Workgroup will split into subgroups to work on the major flaws and bring back to the main group.
It was the consensus that option 2-A would be followed
There was
discussion about the two LMC text amendments currently in front of the
Enforcement of the LMC was brought up. The discussion centered on how staff would enforce the code. The current LMC is the prevailing document and is the code to be enforced.
5.
Voting
Process
There was discussion of how voting was to take place and when votes are taken, simple majority or super majority, minority decision to be included, majority of members present or majority of the entire workgroup.
At the end of the discussion it was agreed upon that a consensus would be reached. If a vote is required, then staff would list the votes for and against.
6.
Public
Comment
It was the consensus that public comment would be permitted at the end of each meeting and that it be limited to 3 minutes per person for 15 minutes. The Chair has the discretion of extending the time for individuals or the total time. Public comment needs to be limited to the items discussed at that meeting.
7.
Approval of
January 15, 2008 Minutes
The minutes were reviewed, moved and approved.
8.
Review of
Article 1- General Provisions
The sections of Article 1 that were discussed included:
101 – “provide adequate light and air”
103 – “applies to all properties” except “grandfathering”
105 – Review of section with deletions
104 – How will the rewrite of LMC support the goals of the 2004 Comprehensive Plan? It is incumbent upon the workgroup to ensure the two documents support each other.
102 – Could this end after the Annotated Code and delete the specific references?
106 – “LMC should be liberally interpreted” and “health & safety” were discussed
108 – This section was reworked by the group.
Discussion about page numbering to refer to the Article (example page number 1-22 would reference Article 1 page 22). There was consensus on this issue.
Please refer to the LMC Workgroup Draft for actual suggested changes.
9.
Review of
Article 2 – Administrative Agencies
The sections of Article 2 that were discussed included:
First a general discussion if Article 2 was needed at all in the LMC. The issue that was raised with this article was that most of this material can be found in the City Code. After discussion it was the consensus that this article should remain.
201 – Should be
added “The
202 – This section was reworked by the group. Deleted (c) and (h).
Please refer to the LMC Workgroup Draft for actual suggested changes.
10. Public comment
There was no public comment.
11. Next Meeting Date
Next Meeting 4:30 p.m. February 19, 2008,
Proposed Agenda:
1.
Welcome
2.
Elected
Officials Remarks
3.
Chairman
Remarks
4.
Staff Remarks
5.
Approval of February
5, 2008 Minutes
6.
Continue Review
of Article 2 – Administrative Agencies
7.
Review of
Article 3 - Procedures
8.
Public
comment
9.
Next Meeting
Date
Meeting adjourned at 6:30 pm.