Planning and Zoning Commission

Minutes

September 12, 2006

Call to Order at 7:00 p.m.

Roll Call;  Doug Bice, Johnny Bridges,  Jan Muskopf, Jim Blondin, Lori Browne, Shannon Larrigan

Minutes

Jan motioned to approve the minutes from the August 8^th meeting, Lori seconded.  Passed 6-0.

Review of Ordinances 

The process of revisiting and reviewing the New Melle zoning ordinances has been postponed in favor of determining a plan for how we want to “build” the city.  Once this plan is in place the ordinances will be revisited to ensure that they are written to enable us to reach our goals.

We determined that it would be a good idea to give some thought to how we picture the city looking in the future.  Where we would like to see homes, where will there be businesses, what type of businesses would we like to attract, where might there be a new park.  We can then bring these ideas back to the committee for discussion and start to lay out the new plan.

An update on the acquisition of the quarry was given.  At present there is not much to report.  The current owner of the query understands that we are interested in acquiring this land and that we will need to perform some inspections before we can proceed.

The Daniel Boone school recreation area/land enhancement project has begun and there were plans to meet with the school along with some members of the Missouri department of conversation in order to lay out the different areas that were on the wish list that was provided by the school.

Requests for building permits:

No requests for building permits.

Open Forum

Perry Eckhardt and Mark Grueber from the Missouri Department of Conservation met with us to discuss our current ordinances and confirmed that we need to spend some time identifying how we want our city to look before we continue with the ordinances review.  They provided several suggestions including taking a drive and finding communities that may serve as a model to where we want to be.

Jim motioned to adjourn at 8:30.  Shannon seconded.  Motion passed 6-0.

Respectively submitted,

Johnny Bridges, sec.