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Announcing . . . my new radio show!

June 18, 2012

Starting Wednesday, June 20, I’ll be doing a weekly half-hour show on KYMN radio, “Think Twice”, which will combine commentary on local issues with a perspective which places those issues into a broader context. I’ll be experimenting a bit with format and guests in order to get the right balance of local to regional/national interest. Here’s the 30-second promo. [...]

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Update on Planning Commission activities

May 2, 2011

First Ward Councillor (and former Planning Commissioner) Suzie Nakasian included a status update on the Land Development Code in her report of 2011 Council activities to date: Thanks to many months of devoted work by the Northfield Planning Commission, we now have an draft LDC that reflects the land use principles that are articulated in [...]

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Public information meeting on the LDC ~ Monday, 2/14/11

February 7, 2011

The Northfield Planning Commission is holding a public information meeting next Monday, Feb. 14, at 7:00p at Community Resource Bank, to present the draft of the Land Development Code and to answer questions and hear comments from the public. (See the announcement on the City website, and this post in the Northfield News.) The Planning [...]

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2011 – off and running

February 2, 2011

Hey! How did it get to be February already? I’ve been so preoccupied with the Land Development Code, work demands, and family schedules that I didn’t do my Happy New Year post and 2010 recap. Rather than trying to “catch up”, which I’ve learned is almost impossible, I’ll just jump right in with a few [...]

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Wind Turbines in the “Urban Reserve” around Northfield

November 20, 2010

On 11/16, the Northfield City Council approved a motion requesting the Planning Commission “to review the two CUP applications, and make a recommendation to the City Council for the Dec. 7 meeting”. Here’s the context. There are two Conditional Use Permit (CUP) applications for wind turbines before the Rice County Planning Commission. The Northfield Planning [...]

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Planning Commission update for September

October 2, 2010

NOTE: This informational update was included in the monthly Boards & Commissions report (PDF) in the City Administrator’s Friday Memo for Oct. 1, but I like the idea of also making the report available on the web in text form, with easily accessible links. The Planning Commission continued to meet weekly (and sometimes more than [...]

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… and an update on Planning Commission activities in August

September 18, 2010

Once a month (historically, the first Friday), the City Administrator’s “Friday Memo” includes an update on the activities of the various City boards and commissions. It appears that the August report(s) may have fallen through the cracks due to the change in administration. Planning Commissioner Richard Schulte wrote this report of the Planning Commission’s activities [...]

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“Planning Commission wastes $200k”. How’s that again?

August 25, 2010

My Locally Grown blogging buddy Griff Wigley notified me that my character was being defamed in the first couple of comments on this Northfield News article. (“Defamation of character” is the communication of false information stated as a fact which brings harm to an individual or an entity.) I’d prefer not to dignify the comment [...]

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New documents, plans, studies added to archive

July 15, 2010

The Planning Commission is currently working on the commercial zoning regulations of the draft Land Development Code, and in addition to meeting with stakeholder groups, we’ve been trying to review and reference existing work that previous Commissions and Councils have done. This helps us to maintain continuity wherever possible; avoid reinventing the wheel; and honor [...]

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A truly multimedia update on the status of our new draft zoning ordinances

April 19, 2010

Lots of good content here! Thanks to the City Council, the Planning Commission, and especially to Tim Freeland of KYMN Radio and City Councillor Betsey Buckheit for making my job easier. First, a quick update on the LDC from this morning’s KYMN Radio newscast. Next, the video of last week’s presentation to the City Council [...]

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