HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 06/28/1988 - City CouncilSPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1988 7:30 P.M.
The Special Meeting of the McHenry City Council was called to
order by Mayor Busse on Tuesday, June 28, 1988 at 7:30 P.M. at City
Hall. At roll call the following Aldermen were present: Bolger, Nolan,
Lieder, Smith, McClatchey, Patterson, Serritella. Absent: Teta. Plan
Council Mtg.
Commission members in attendance were Wilson and Toole. Absent: Osmon,
Attendance
Buhrman, Sheppard, Uttich, Gutierrez. City staff in attendance were
Attorney Narusis, Clerk Gilpin, Public Works Secretary Anne Rodenkirch.
Special Mtg.
Also in attendance were Consultant John Gann, Don Gerstad of Gerstad
Comp. Plan
Builders and Kathy Marinangel, Chairman of the Economic Development
Commission.
Mayor Busse announced that the City Council had entered into an
agreement with John Gann of Gann Associates for an update of the City's
Comprehensive Plan. Gann was involved in the updating of the Zoning
Ordinance two years ago and has recently served the City in two
annexations which have come before the Council. Therefore, he will guide
the Council through the updating process.
Gann proposed using the method of "Key Issues Planning" which
de-emphasizes traditional comprehensiveness and stresses use of readily
available data and special effort to obtain only that data that appears
critical to development issues. Producing cost-effective information
that is useful to the Committee during the planning is stressed with the
Key Issues Planning methods.
According to his proposal, Key Issues Planning in McHenry would
be the approach to take because of the following reasons:
McHenry's Comprehensive Plan, though no longer satisfactory for
making development decisions, is still relatively recent in
origin and contains considerable still -usable data. McHenry is
not in the same position as the typical community seeking to
update a plan that is, say, 20 years old, and the City
accordingly does not need the kind of work program such a
community would require.
2. Data from the source of most data for traditional comprehensive
planning --the decennial U.S. Census --is now eight years old,
making even less useful to undertake a planning effort based
heavily on such data.
3. McHenry City officials have shown a past willingness to
participate in an unusually active "hands on" approach to
developing their own land use policy documents in preference to
letting data or expert opinion alone determine policy.
4. Because of pressing development activity,. the City has
programmed a period of only four months --from June to October,
1988--to develop its new plan. This unusually tight time
constraint all but completely rules out the traditional planning
approach.
Gann asked all of the Aldermen in attendance to present their views
on development problems and the objectives of the plan so that he could
provide guidance in the conduct of the work. Each Alderman expressed
their concerns. The two Plan Commission members and Gerstad, Marinangel
and Narusis also expressed their views on development of the updated
plan. The Plan Commission had updated the community goals and objectives
which had not as yet been delivered to the City Council for their
review. However, Gann asked that a copy be submitted to him so that he
would have some idea of the views of the Plan Commission.
Attached is the schedule of work performance by Gann for the
updating process.
Motion by Smith, seconded by McClatchey, to adjourn.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Nolan, Lieder, Smith,
McClatchey, Patterson, Serritella.
Voting Nay: None.
Absent: Teta.
Motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at 10:13 P.M.
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