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CARTER, KRUEGER & ASSOCIATES, INC.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
3381 GORHAM AVE..
MINNEAPOLIS 26, MINNESOTA
WEst 9-0477
October 1, 1959
Mr. Kenneth Fortin
Chairman of Planning Commission
Medina, Minnesota
Sewerage
Swimming Pools
Drainage
Dear Ken:
As perhaps you noted in the newspaper, a special hearing was
held at the Capitol Friday, September 25, to consider the major
sanitary problem that is developing in the Twin Cities area.
Indications are that major preventive measures must be taken to
avoid pollution of water supply wells in this region.
At the conference, the Board of Health made available mater-
ial that might be included in the municipal well ordinances.
Attached is a copy of this provision.
You will note that a copy of this letter along with the at-
tachment is being sent to Mr. Al Tesch and Mr. Alex Schumacher
in order that your Planning Omission might discuss this matter
at your next meeting.
If there is any question, please call me in the next few
days at your convenience. With my present schedule, I will be
away from the office for a few days starting October 8, and in
the mean time I want to assemble anything you may need for your
meeting on Monday, October 19.
Yours sincerely,
CAR, KRUEGER & ASSOCTAMS, INC.
hie N. Carter President
ANC : tp
Enclosure
Cc: Mr. L. F. Hatcher, Mayor
Mrs. Anne E. Theis, Village Clerk
Mr. Al Tesch
Mr. Frank Kilpatrick
Mr. Alex Schumacher
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CARTER, KRUEGER & ASSOCIATES, INC.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
3381 GORHAM AVE.
MINNEAPOLIS 26, MINNE.SOTA
WEst 9-0477
September 30, 1959
Mr. Kenneth Fortin
Chairman of Planning Commission
Medina, Minnesota
Sewerage
Swimming Pools
Drainage
Dear Ken:
When we were last together you asked me regarding the hand-
ling of requirements for the rezoning of an area in the Village
of Medina for present zoning restrictions. A study of this mat-
ter reveals that on page Z-35 of the Zoning Code, the Village
Council shall require a report from the Planning Commission on
any proposed amendments before the Council take action on the
suggested rezoning. The Planning Commission shall make a ten-
tative report, and it shall also hold a public hearing before
submitting its report to the Village, Council.
The procedure just outlined is set forth in Section 30,
which reads as follows:
Report by Planning Commission - Public Hearing: The
Village Council shall require a repost from the planning
commission on any proposed amendment before taking final
action thereon. The planning commission shall thereupon
make a tentative repoAtt and shall hold a public hearing
thereon with notice the same as required for the public
hearing by the Village Council, before submitting its
final report. Such final report shall be submitted with-
in sixty (60) days after the time of referral of the
proposed amendment to it, unless the board agrees to an
extension of time.
It is to b n ted furthermore that action by the Village
Council may a public hearing. This procedure is out-
lined in subsection b at the top of page Z-36 which reads as
follows:
Action by the Village Council - Public Hearing: After
receipt of the required final report from the plannin
commission on a proposed amendment, or, after sixty (60)
days after the time of referral of the amendment to the
commission, in the event no such report is received, the
Village Council shall hold a public hearing, after which
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the proposed amendment may be passed or disaproved.
Not less than ten (10) dayst notice of the time and place
of the public hearing shall -fist be carried in a news-
paper published in Hennepin County. Parties at interest,
citizens or their agents, shall be given an opportunity
to be heard. A two-thirds (2/3) vote of all the mem-
bers of the Council shall be required for passage of an
amendment.
We also discussed the procedure fo�lowed in Minnetonka Vil-
lage. In discussing the Minnetonka method today with Clerk
Thimsen, he reported that the Planning Conmission advertises a
public hearing and after this is held, reports to the Council
which then takes up the matter at an open meeting. Any citizen
interested in the matter is free to check• with the Village Clerk
as to when the rezoning question will be considered by the
Council, and may appear before that body to talk on the question.
The Minnetonka Council does not advertise in its official news-
paper as to when the rezoning matter will be considered, but
this usually follows shortly after the Planning Commission has
reported to the Council.
In Eden Prairie Township, where we are working closely wit_1
the Planning Commission and with the Town Board, the method of
rezoning includes the hearing procedure, and is identical with
that in the Medina zoning code.
Yours sincerely,
CARTER, KRUEGER & ASSOCIA'l'i:S, INC.
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Achie N. Carter, President
ANC : tp
Cc: flr. L. F. Matcher, Mayor
Mrs. Anne E. Theis, Village Clerk
Ise. George Hedlund, Attorney at Law