| Ms. Patricia Goodwin took the floor and introduced Ms. Katherine Beebe, president |
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| of Katherine Beebe and Associates. Ms. Goodwin presented a preliminary draft |
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| meeting schedule for 1998 Planning Commission meetings. A selection committee |
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| comprised of Planning Commission Chairperson Eric Kaiser, Planning Commission |
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| Member Eugene Nowicki, Planner Paul Rizzardi, resident Ed Gardner, Farmington |
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| Hills City Planner, and herself put out a scope of service. Of the five proposals |
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| received three were interviewed, and KBA/JJR (Johnson Johnson & Roy) was |
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| selected to provide consulting services for the subject update. |
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| Ms. Beebe described the scope of work proposed. She and Barry Murray of JJR |
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| will be present at subsequent meetings regarding the master land use plan update. |
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| They will be studying the following aspects of the Rochester Hills community: |
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| understanding the natural environment and related recommendations; the economic |
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| aspects of land development; traffic and circulation issues; building conditions, as well |
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| as other aspects to develop policies that will be incorporated into the master plan |
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| update. Ms. Beebe distributed a memorandum dated January 6, 1998 describing the |
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| scope of work proposed. (Said memorandum has been placed on file and by |
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| reference becomes part of the record hereof.) The basic approach is to start with an |
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| initial work session. They will do a physical survey of the entire city which will feed |
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| into the GIS system; will review all existing documents and plans related to the Master |
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| Transportation Plan Update to avoid duplication and conflicts; will interview property |
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| owners, business leaders, residents, church and nonprofit leaders, and planners from |
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| adjacent communities as well as the county through focus groups and individual |
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| meetings to gain an understanding of social and economic aspects of the community; |
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| will review past master plan documents and plans. The term "residual parcels" has |
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| been coined to refer to those parcels that are vulnerable to change in use in the future |
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| either from economic pressures or because of a change in physical condition. The city |
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| is at the point in its development that makes a focus on residual parcels important and |
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| determine how to plan for them. All Planning Commission members will also be |
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| interviewed. They would be seeking community participation in the form of |
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| workshops conducted by the Planning Commission. They expect to be out in the |
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| community in the next few weeks to start the survey and interviewing processes. A |
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| review of the first findings is tentatively scheduled for the March 10, 1998 Planning |
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| Commission meeting. Their goal is to have the final master plan done in July 1998, but |
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| she has been told this may be an ambitious time line. |
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