HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/10/72Member~ present:
Peter~en, }~'.r~ iirtand :~;~ebreci~e~ ;',Sr~ C/arc. ce SoleJ~m.
Mr~ St:ew~ W~iIcke~
Minates oJ the Plar;nLng Com.n'~fss~on ~zneetir~g of .Decerrtber 13~ 197i were amendes
to indic, ate that Mr. Pe~ereen was no~nated to serve as a member of the
Elec!:J. on of Ghatrman and Secretary: Mrs Pe~:erser~ was nc,m~nated for clm~r:~a~n,
ms. ed by Mr HaIlberg, seconded by Ivir. S~ebrecht. No ether nonxi~.a, t2ons
Mr; Petex'so~ was elected. Mr. Ta~er nominated for Secretary, ~ve:t by
Mr Trau~mam~, secoa~ded by ~Sr~. L.~nde: No other noc~nation~ Mr. Tanner
was elected.
A letter from Mr. Biskupmk~ was read requesting withdrawal to relocate the
Con~erniu$ house o~ 9th and P,.ne Streets~
ll{~e TraYf~e Survey Subcomrrittee reported they are considering suggesting
Ramsey and Tyler Streets one~way d~.~ec~ion~ be red, erred,, extend one-way
][rom grid Street to t8~h Street *~d establish new ~treet be:ween RarestF ~ld
Ty'er between llth ~.d 15th Streets. Also suggest rev~xon si T,. iL 61 a.nd
T E.~ 3t6 ~ntercha~ge near xts present location.,
Ray Ilother application for b~lalcaing perm;.,~ at 1}0" Verrri~llion Street
to .'.'vic. W~lson's cortJcc~ittee~
T.Bi. PoA~ report on Sanitar7 Set;,er Plan and Stern Sewer with drawmgg and
written ;'ev;ew of sysf:e,~n,
Request from Chicago. Mil+vauke% S*. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company to
close 3rd Street crossm, go Con:mss.:o~ declined ~o so act and sngge~t
railroad city.ge Zmd $~reet mig~al to eLt~inate ac~x;-at~on while engines s~t~ng
~vh[ l.e not
The January 24tI~ r~eeting will ancl~de T.K. D~ A. report on water
Dave Ta~nn~r. Secret,lry
Ilas~ings PlanrGng Cor.'~rnlsston
CITY OF HASTINGS
100 '~I~,LEY '~TP, EET, NASTINGS, I~INNESOTA
Phone 437-6921
Hastings on tke Hississippi
OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER
MINUTES OF HASTINGS PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
HELD MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1972
Those present:
Chairman Walt Petersen, Mr. Arland Siebrecht,
Mr. Clarence Soleim, Jr., Mr. Dave Tanner, Mr. Don
Hallberg, Mr. Fred Trautmann, Mr. Pat Wilson,
Mrs. Marcella Linde, Mr. Steve Willeke, Mr. Steve
Gartzke, and Mr. Leo Schumacher, Jr.
Also present:
Mr. Darrell Berkowitz and James Skarat from T. K. D. A.
and John Davidson, City Engineer
The first item of business was the revision of the minutes of December 13,
1971 to correct the last paragraph to read "Mr. Peterson was recommended
for appointment to a one-year term". The paragraph should not read "appointed
The next item of business was nominations for chairman. The first nominee
was Mr. Walt Peterson being made by Mr. Hallberg and seconded by Mr. Siebrecht.
Mr. Trautmann made a motion that nominations be closed, seconded by Mr. Tanner.
The motion was unanimously carried.
Mr. Fred nominated Mr. Tanner for Secretary, seconded by Mrs. Linde.
Mr. Wilson moved nominations be closed, seconded by Mr. Siebrecht. The
motion unanimously carried.
Mr. Peterson read a letter from Mr. Marvin Biskupski stating that he would
like to withdraw his request to relocate the Conzemius house to the northwest
corner of 9th and Pine Streets.
There was a report from the Traffic Survey Subcommittee of the City Council.
Present were Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Differt, Mr. McNamara, and Mr. Swanson.
They reviewed the one-way street systems on Ramsey and Tyler Streets suggesting
one-way traffic on Tyler south and one way traffic on Ramsey north and further
investigation into school bus unloading with the reverse in one-way systems.
That the one-way systems be continuous from 18th to Znd Street and that a opening
between Ramsey and Tyler be secured between llth and 15th Streets.
The next item they reviewed was the interchange between T.H. 316 and T.H. 61.
They suggested that we secure the Jensen (Horsch) property at the triangular
intersection between present T.H. 316 and T.H. 61 so that the access between
T.H. 316 and T.H. 61 would be a normal one to T. PI. 61 approximately at the
north line of Livingston Ford garage property. It would require securing the
Minutes of Hastings Planning Commission
Meeting held January N0, 1972
Page
entire area between T.H. 316 and T.H. 61 to the north line of Livingston Ford,
the elimination of one home and relocation of the property owner. Mr. Swanson
indicated that the State Highway Department now has the ability to secure property
and relocate the resident to safe adequate housing, as well as paying the cost of
all relocation to equal or better living conditions that those from which he was
removed.
The next item of discussion was the upgrading of CSAH 47. The Engineer suggested
that the study committee might look into this .intersection. The planner had suggested
a continuation of CSAH 47 to line up with Pleasant Drive extended and that the County
Engineer was proposing to upgrade CSAH 47 from its intersection with GSAH 48 to
T.H. 52. It was then suggested to the Traffic Committee that they submit their
recommendations in writing in regard to the T.H. 316 re-alignment so that the
City Council would take immediate action to authorize the Engineer to request
the State Highway Department to acquire necessary right-of-way and construct
the necessary relocation and intersection, along with the recommendation to upgrade
T.H. 61 to four-lane urban status when .it is extended south to the proposed T.H. 55
by-pass interchange.
There was a request from Ray Rother for a building permit to extend his garage.
The drawing prepared by the City Engineer, along with the permit application was
submitted in triplicate to the chairman of the committee, Mr. Wilson. The
Engineer made a brief report to the Planning Commission that the proposed con-
struction would require a Various Permit to the backyard setback in a C-3 zone.
There was a presentation of the Comprehensive Sewer Plan by Mr. Darrell Berkowitz
from the firm of T.K.D.A. He went through the report in detail and furnished
copies to each member of the Planning Commission. It was suggested by the Planning
Commission Chairman that copies of the report be submitted to the City Council for
review prior to the Planning Commission recommendation at the meeting of
February 7, 1972. After reviewing the Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan,
Mr. Berkowitz went into the outline for CapitoIImprovements Program regard.Lng
storm sewers. We furnished each member of the Planning Commission~hao~m'g
g
the storm sewer districts that had been established to date. Within the 4 districts
described there have been several area storm sewers constructed within that
district, basically the northwest storm sewer district .is drained to the ponding
basin at Husting-Bakken-Iverson gravel pit area, the southwest area to the
ponding basin on the Maurice Zweber property south of 15th Street, and adjacent
to the Hastings Golf Club. The district southeast runs basically to the Vermillion
River watershed and the drainage area northeast to the Mississippi River. Upon
this drawing the estimated five-year construction programshave been detailed,
basically these are to form storm sewer studies within specific areas, principaliy
those of the original town through which storm sewers have been designed, plans
of which are not readily available, and will require a considerable amount of study
to determine what the storm sewer needs are within these areas. Some of the
storm drainage facilities will be designed at the time that the street construction
and improvement programs are completed.
Minutes of Hastings Planning Commission
Meeting held January 10, 1972
Page 3.
After Mr. Berkowitz completed his report he was asked to return to the next
meeting on January 24, 1972 at which time the Water Distribution section of
the Capitol Improvements Program would be discussed and the Planning Commission
would have reviewed the Sanitary Sewer Comprehensive Plan and will make any
suggestions prior to submitting to the Council for final approval.
The next item of discussion was the report by the coalition committee of the Planning
Commission Chairman and the assistance of the Downtown Businessmen's Association
and the Hastings Chamber of Commerce. A copy of that report was attached to the
previous Commission minutes. The Planning Commission was asked to review the
report and come back with recommendations so that a definite recommendation
could be made to the City Council at their meeting of February 24, 1972.
Mr. Peterson reviewed the request from Mr. Ray Nowicki to review annexation
procedures and possible construction of a mobile home park on the Heschke farm
property immediately south of the present corporate limits. Mr. Petersen also
mentioned that the City Council had appointed Mr. Novak and the Finance Committee
as the liaison between the Planning Commission and the Dakota County Officials and
architects to improve or make additions to the Court House facility within the down-
town area of the Gityof Hastings. It was generally suggested that Mr. Nowicki's
situation be postponed until we have had our meeting with the town boards and that
Mr. Peterson work with Mr. Novak in regard to the Court House Committee.
Rev. Fair made a request under the Home Occupations Section of the Zoning
Ordinance, if they would be free to buy single family residential homes for the
purpose of operating a home mailing service out of a residential home. The Home
Occupation Section of the Zoning Ordinance had been reviewed in general. There
was a request made to the City Clerk-Administrator to have him put into the
enforcement aspect of that updating and that the revised up-dated ordinance would
be returned to the Planning Commission for final study.
Chairman Peterson indicated that the Natural Resources Commission would be
meeting with the Corps of Engineers on Tuesday, January 18, 1972 at 7:30 P.M.
in the Council Chambers to discuss the Lake Rebecca recreation park plan.
Mr. Peterson indicated that he had maps available showing land used on commercial
industrial facilities within Dakota County which had been secured from the Gotmty
Planning Office.
The Engineer read a letter from the Division Engineer with the CMSt. P&P Railroad
who requested that the access to 3rd Street in East Hastings be removed. It was
the general concensus from the Planning Commission that the 3rd Street entrance
access not be removed.
There was also a request to have better control over the gnd Street signal in that
this signal is activated much of the time because of local transfer switching traffic
or engines sitting on trackage adjacent to the depot and activating the signal when
in fact, no crossing was taking place.
Minutes of Hastings Plannin~ Commission
Meeting held Januar/ 10, 1972
Page 4,
The Engineer stated that he had received a copy of the Capitol Improvements
Program put out by the Metropolitan Sewer Board for review by municipalities.
If anyone on the Planning Commission was interested, it was on file in the
Engineer's office to review.
There will be a meeting held on Tuesday, January 11, 1972 at 2:00 i~.M.
Councilman Hallberg and the City Engineer were going to attend that meeting
at which time they were going to organize an advisory hoard for the southeast
service district No. 6.
Also a letter was read from the Metropolitan League of Municipalities that there
would be a meeting at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, January 26, 197Z at the office
of the Metropolitan Sewer Board to discuss Capitol Improvement Programs and
cost allocation formulas.
The Engineer read a letter from Mr. Bernard Larson the new County Surveyor
stat.Lng that .in the engineer's opinion this was a long overdue service require-
ment of Dakota County to have a full-time registered land surveyor to establish
land lines within Dakota County, that I would be working with Mr. Larson to
establish those corners of most iminent need.
We determined that the next meeting of the Planning Commission will be held
on Monday , January 24, 1972 at 7:30 P.M. in the City Hall.
We completed our meeting at approximately 10:00 P.M.
John Davidson, City Engineer