07-09-1958 PCAR cFrom: Planning Commission
City of Hutchinson, V inne sota
To: City Council
City of Hutchinson, 1, innesota
Subject: Annual Report
Organizational meeting July 9, 1958. Regular meetings are scheduled
monthly, on the third Wonday at 7:30 p.m. in the Fireman's Room of
the City Hall.
July and August were spent in the study of a new Subdivision Regulation
Ordinance %%hich was submitted to the Council on August 22, 1958, and
subsequently passed as an ordinance by that body.
Subsequently, the following subdivisions were duly studied by the Corr -
mission and recommendations were made to the City Council:
1.
Hillcrest
second addition
2.
Nyberg's
third addition
3.
Selchow
- Jorgenson
4.
Nyberg's
fourth addition
5.
M- aller's
addition
A recommendation was made to the Charter Commission that the city
establish a joint Park -recreation Con.r. ission.
Recommendations have been made to the Council regarding requests for
non-conformin�perrr,its or zoning changes for Darrell Goede, The Pure
Oil Corr,pany, tearn's Um-iber Company, Bethany Baptist Church, and
Robert S chwarze and V- i lbe rt Kottke .
The regular meetings of the Commission and numerous special n_ eetings
since January have been largely taken up with the study of a new zoning
ordinance for the city of Hutchinson. In addition, there have been
several joint meetings with members of adjoining town boards to assist
them to establish coning ordinances in their respective townships and
to assure, where possible, some co-ordinated planning between the City
and the imrrediately adjoining townships. It is expected that a new zoning
ordinance -rill be ready for submission to the Council before September 1959.
The Commission has also net N%ith the county engineer and our local
county comrr.issioner, Nr. C. Albrecht, to discuss the need for intergrated
city and county road planning within the city of Hutchinson.
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The Traffic, Parking and Major Street Plan; Parks, Playgrounds and
Public Buildings Plan, and the Land Use Plan and Comprehensive Plans
have not yet been received from Carl L. Gardner and Associates.
Originally scheduled for completion by December 1958, an extension
was granted until Iv,arch 10, 1959, but these reports have still not been
received. It is the intent of the Planning Commission to delay any
specific recomir:endations to the Council on these subjects until after
receipt and study of the plans yet to be submitted by the City Planners.
In addition it is the intent of the Planning Comn ission to delay any
recommendations in a capital improvement program (as called for in
section 4.8 of Ordinance #208, City of Hutchinson) until after receipt
and study of the above mentioned plans.
Respectfully submitted,
Carl O. Bretzke, Chairman
N elvin Hegdahl, Secretary