HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Packet 08-16-1988 SpecialAGENDA
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
5:30 p.m.
Scanticon Conference Center
5:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. I. The definition of Planned Unit Development - minimum
land area, bonus points, open -space.
II. Reguiding LA -2 and LA -3 to LA -1 and LA -2.
III. City Council agenda format.
IV. Town Meetings.
V. Telephone Comment Line.
VI. Citizen Safety Committee.
VII. 1989 Council Calendar.
10 P.M. Adjourn
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: August 15, 1988
TO: games G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manage
SUBJECT CITY COUNCIL AGENDA FORMAT
Councilmember Zitur requested that this item be placed on the special
August 16 meeting agenda. Existing city code sets forth the order of
business for Plymouth City Council meetings. This section of the ordinance
is in the process of receiving housekeeping revisions so that it corresponds
with our current City Council agenda format.
Attached is a table which shows the agenda order based upon current
ordinance and actual practice. A housekeeping amendment will revise the
ordinance to reflect actual practice unless the City Council directs
otherwise.
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING ORDER
Current Ordinance
I. Approval of Minutes
2. Consent Agenda
3. Public Hearings
4. Petitions, Requests and
Communications
5. Reports of Council Committees
6. Reports of Administrative
Personnel
7. Claims, Appropriations and
Contract Payments
8. Adjournment
Actual Practice
I. Invocation
2. Presentations
3. Consent Agenda
4. Minutes
5. Public Hearings
6. Petitions, Requests and
Communications
7. Reports of Officers,
Boards and Commissions
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: August 15, 198
TO. James G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT TOWN MEETINGS
Councilmember Zitur has requested that the subject of town meetings be
discussed at the August 16 Special Meeting. Attached for information is a
memorandum from City Clerk Laurie Rauenhorst, discussing the current town
meeting format, areas, feedback received and a number of possible town
meeting format revisions.
It is recommended that the Council consider the following changes to the
existing town meeting format:
I. Revise the town meeting areas from the present eight to four. The
areas would correspond with the four districts from which board and
commission members are selected (see attached map). This action
would tend to increase attendance at each meeting, while broadening
the issues for discussion.
2. Town meetings would be conducted for each area every other year.
The Council could either elect to conduct all town meetings every
other year, or two town meetings each year.
3. The meeting format could remain the same except that questions
would be focused on the staff reports. If a resident had a concern
about other issues, they would be asked to have it added to the
agenda before the meeting. If they do not, the added issue would
be responded to in writing through Resident Feedback Form. This
practice would help to assure that area -wide issues receive primary
concentration during the meeting, rather than more narrowly focused
issues.
The City Council should discuss these alternatives at the August 16 meeting
and provide direction to the City staff.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: July 29, 1988
TO: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Laurie Rauenhorst, City Clerk P_
SUBJECT TOWN MEETINGS
Town meetings were initiated in 1984 in response to a Mayor/Council
objective to develop and implement an improved communications program
with elements of the community using the "town meeting" format. Town
Meetings were designed to address concerns particular to the
neighborhood. Twenty-two town meetings have been held since the program
was started. Attendance ranged from less than 30 to 115, with an
average attendance of 50 citizens per meeting.
The City was divided into 10 areas, and a schedule provided whereby town
meetings occur for each of the 10 areas every other year. (The City
Council holds five Town Meetings each year.) The policy was established
to set the second Monday of any of five of the following months for Town
Meetings: January, February, March, April, May, November and December.
This avoids the traditional summer vacation months and September/October
when the Council is heavily involved in budgeting and capital
improvement planning. Residents are mailed an invitation and agenda for
their Town Meeting approximately three weeks before the scheduled
meeting date.
Residents are encouraged to complete a "Resident Feedback Form" which is
reviewed, investigated, and responded to by staff following the
meeting. The Mayor has traditionally also sent a letter to those
residents thanking them for their comments and attendance at the Town
Meeting. The topics of Resident Feedback Forms were as follows for all
Town Meetings to date. This does not include comments at the meeting:
Complaints (speed, parking, nuisance) 33
Signing/parking requests 38
Streets 43
Trails 34
Storm sewer, drainage 13
Sanitary sewer, water 7
Parks 12
Trees, sod, walls 12
Misc. 42
The Council has many alternatives for amending the Town Meeting format
including:
1. Combine areas. The original staff suggestion was to have four Town
Meeting areas. The Council could revise the boundaries to provide
for four or six areas, and then hold two or three Town Meetings each
year. Residents would still be invited to a meeting every other year
for their area. Residents should be invited at least this often for
purposes of timeliness of information with the amount of change
occurring in Plymouth.
2. Hold a studio version of Town Meetings where the information is
provided to residents over cable. Residents could then respond
through the Feedback Forms.
3. Expand the Town Meeting to include a call-in format.
4. Abandon Town Meeting areas. The Council could call a Town Meeting
to discuss items of current neighborhood concern when the need
becomes obvious (perhaps the recent Schmidt Lake Road extension).
Areas to be notified would vary with the issue.
5. Call a meeting when requested by the area. Let residents know that
the Council is willing to meet with an area at their request.
Let the residents of an area initiate the Town Meeting.
6. Require residents to contact staff prior to their Town Meeting to be
included in the agenda if they have items other than those on the
proposed agenda. This could address the problem of residents
speaking on items not of a "neighborhood concern".
7. Abandon Town Meetings. Are the communication objectives of the
Council able to be met in other ways? Are there ways of getting
information now provided through Town Meetings to residents of a
certain neighborhood (area mailings, cable)? Are there ways of
getting feedback now provided through Town Meetings from residents?
Are the Town Meetings "successful" when 30-115 people attend out of
19200 - 1,500 notices sent?
A map is attached outlining the ten current Town Meeting areas, along
with information on the dates each meeting has been held and the number
of feedback forms received by area.
This information is provided in an effort to assist the Council in
determining whether the Town Meetings are accomplishing their intended
objective - to improve the communications program with involvement from
the community and to address neighborhood concerns, or whether
improvements or modifications could be made.
AREA
Area 1
Area 2
Area 3
Area 4
Area 5
Area 6
Area 7
Area 8
Area 9
Area 10
Area 1
Area 2
Area 3
Area 4
Area 5
Area 6
Area 7
Area 8
Area 9
Area 10
Area 1
Area 2
MEETING DATE
June 26, 1984
July 23, 1984
December 10, 1984
January 14, 1985
February 19, 1985
March 11, 1985
April 8, 1985
May 13, 1985
March 10, 1986
April 14, 1986
May 12, 1986
October 14, 1986
November 10, 1986
March 9, 1987
April 13, 1987
May 11, 1987
June 8, 1987
November 9, 1987
March 14, 1988
April 11, 1988
May 9, 1988
June 13, 1988
TOWN MEETINGS
FEEDBACK FORMS
18
4
21
30
10
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1
5
6
9
10
12
3
14
8
9
7
13
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12
3
11
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: July 27, 1988
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
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FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manage
SUBJECT CITIZEN COMMENT LINE
In accordance with your earlier direction, I have asked Helen LaFave to
prepare a memorandum on the Citizen Comment Line telephone recorder.
Attached is a memorandum which discusses the objectives, publicity used,
number of calls received and recommendations for improving the telephone
recorder Customer Comment Line.
melen suggests tnat a cable IV announcement be made during City Council
breaks, and that the Citizen Comment Line number be publicized durinq the
course of the council meetino. She also recommends that we continue to
list the comment line telephone number for job postings. These
recommendations are made in lieu of publishing the phone number in Plymouth
on Parade in the immediate future.
I believe that Helen's recommendations are sound. They represent a prudent
first step in improving our publicity of the comment line. If these
enhancements prove ineffective, it would then be possible to resort to
publicity in the Plymouth on Parade newsletter.
I understand that the City Council will be discussing this issue at their
August 16 special meeting.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
The Citizen Comment Line, an after hours answering machine, has been in
operation since May 11. The comment line has only been publicized on cable
television. It was not publicized from June 9 to approximately June 24 --
during that time we only featured outdoor watering restriction information
on channel 37.
OBJECTIVES
Offer residents an opportunity to voice concerns anonymously and/or
after normal business hours.
Help city staff track problems with city services, areas of resident
concern and provide viewer feedback on cable television programs.
Direct citizens to the appropriate source for those items not
appropriately handled by city staff.
PUBLICITY
The Citizen Comment Line has only been publicized on channel 37, at the
direction of the City Council. The purpose behind this direction was
twofold.
1. To ensure that staff was not overwhelmed by the number of calls
received.
2. To see how many people are watching channel 37.
NUMBER OF CALLS ON RECORDER
To date, we have received four calls on the answering machine. We have also
received an additional five calls for Job openings that were listed on
cable. (The telephone number listed for Job openings is the same number as
the Citizen Comment Line. However, the callers for Job openings called
during the day when they receive the switchboard, rather than the answering
machine.)
All callers leaving messages on the answering machine have been anonymous.
MEMO
DATE: July 26, 1988
TO: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
Helen LaFave, Communications Coordinator
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FROM:
SUBJECT SUMMARY OF CITIZEN COMMENT LINE CALLS
The Citizen Comment Line, an after hours answering machine, has been in
operation since May 11. The comment line has only been publicized on cable
television. It was not publicized from June 9 to approximately June 24 --
during that time we only featured outdoor watering restriction information
on channel 37.
OBJECTIVES
Offer residents an opportunity to voice concerns anonymously and/or
after normal business hours.
Help city staff track problems with city services, areas of resident
concern and provide viewer feedback on cable television programs.
Direct citizens to the appropriate source for those items not
appropriately handled by city staff.
PUBLICITY
The Citizen Comment Line has only been publicized on channel 37, at the
direction of the City Council. The purpose behind this direction was
twofold.
1. To ensure that staff was not overwhelmed by the number of calls
received.
2. To see how many people are watching channel 37.
NUMBER OF CALLS ON RECORDER
To date, we have received four calls on the answering machine. We have also
received an additional five calls for Job openings that were listed on
cable. (The telephone number listed for Job openings is the same number as
the Citizen Comment Line. However, the callers for Job openings called
during the day when they receive the switchboard, rather than the answering
machine.)
All callers leaving messages on the answering machine have been anonymous.
SUMMARY OF CITIZEN COMMENT LINE CALLS
July 26, 1988
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IDEAS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Additional publicity may generate more calls. If the Council opts to
continue with the Citizen Comment Line, I recommend that we:
Produce a 30 to 60 second promo for channel 37 on the Customer Comment
Line. It could be run during the break of the City Council meetings
and be added to our regular playback tapes for Tuesday and Thursday
nights.
During City Council meetings, periodically feature a notice to viewers
that they may call in with their comments on cable tv programming.
Continue to list job postings on the datacaster and list the Comment
Line phone number for job notices. If people know they may find job
openings, it may gain more viewers for channel 37. It also makes
calling in for an application more convenient because it can be done
after business hours and allows callers to leave their name and
address on the answering machine.
If the above options are unsuccessful in generating more calls and if the
City Council opts to continue with the Comment Line, the next step would be
to publicize it in Plymouth on Parade. This will allow us to reach the
greatest number of residents. The down side of this suggestion is that it
may create a deluge of calls for staff and could exceed the capacity of the
answering machine. Because of this potential, I suggest that we not pursue
this option immediately.
RECON ENDATION
Given the fact the Comment Line was not publicized for over 2 weeks in dune
and that it has only been publicized on the character generator, I recommend
that we continue with it and begin to cautiously expand publicity. By
cautiously expanding the publicity:
Produce a 30 to 60 second announcement which can be shown with other
programming and during City Council breaks;
Flash the Citizen Comment Line number across the screen during City
Council meetings. This would permit us to see if the Comment Line
will catch on without running the risk of generating more calls than
we can handle.
Continue to list Comment Line telephone number for job postings.
For your information, I have attached a list of the calls which have been
received on the comment line.
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LOG OF CALL RECEIVED ON CITIZEN COMMENT LINE:: 559-1564
6/1/88 CALL: Resident called at 8:15 p.m on May 31.
Lives on the 11000 block of 46th Ave.
Said water pressure was so low she
could not run a full tub of water. Said
no message was on cable about water use.
She wanted to know what the City was
going to do about people sprinkling.
RESPONSE: Response not possible because no name,
address or phone number was given.
Sprinkling restrictions began 6/1/88. The
odd -even restrictions were publicized on
channel 37 beginning June 1.
6/7/88 CALL: Cable television viewer called saying that
the Plymouth Park K Recreation Dance
Recital which was scheduled for playback at
7:30 p.m. was not shown.
RESPONSE: Caller did not leave name or telephone
number. Communications Coordinator checked
with Video Producer Reg Dunlap who was
scheduled to program the playback. He had
forgotten to set up the tinier on the
playback deck. The Dance Recital was
replayed on Thurs., June 9.
Weekend
of 7/2/88 CALL: Caller commented that the quality of the
programming and information on channel 37
should be made more interesting. He said
he reads it every day. He also said that
the character generated text contained
typographical errors.
RESPONSE: Caller did not leave name. However, all
information being shown on channel 37 was
proofread for typos. None were found.
Weekend of
7/2/88 CALL: Caller said that she wanted to let her
opinion on water restrictions be known
because she cannot attend City Council
meetings. She said that the hours are too
harsh and should be eased. She said that
because she works the second shift, it
means she roust wash her car after 9 p_m —
i.e., in the dark.. She suggested that the
restrictions be changed to 10 a.m. to 6
5p.m. or 7 p.m.
RESPONSE: Caller did not leave her name.
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: August 15, 1988
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT PROPOSED CITIZEN SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Attached is a memorandum from Bob Zitur which proposes the implementation of
a standing Citizens' Advisory Committee to discuss such issues as animal
control, snowmobiles, nuisance animal and the like.
The committee would consist of four Plymouth residents, one from each of the
board/commission districts, appointed for a two-year term by the City
Council, complemented by three volunteers selected at large. The committee
would meet every two or three months as needed, and would be staffed by the
Public Safety Director. The chairperson would be appointed by the CityCouncil.
Councilmember Zitur's objective is a good one. I believe the most appro-
priate way to accomplish the objective is to establish a task force on an
issue -by -issue basis rather than a standing committee. By establishing a
task force, the Council can expedite the investigation of specific issues as
they arise, without risking the possibility that the committee will have
periods of inactivity which will ultimately lead to lower levels of citizen
participation and/or higher levels of staff support.
As a first issue, the Council may wish to establish a task force to investi-
gate the public safety issues associated with urban deer herds. The issues
would include:
I. Deer/vehicle collisions.
2. The effectiveness of animal warning reflectors.
3. Crop damage by deer herds.
4. Lyme's Disease
Attached is a memorandum with attachments on this subject.
If the Council desires that the task force be established it would be
appropriate to direct that the staff prepare a charge for the task force and
make further recommendations regarding its size and composition.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH'
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
March 28, 1988 MEMO
DATE:
Mayor Schneider, Councilmembers Sisk, Vasiliou, and Ricker, and Manager
TO: Willis
Bob Z.
FROM:
PROPOSED CITIZENS SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SUBJECT
At a recent Council meeting, I stated we need to look at snowmobiles and
all terrain vehicles at a study session after the emotion settled
following the recent tragic snowmobile death.
For sometime previous to the tragedy, I had been thinking that we need a
citizens safety advisory committee. I do not feel that the present City
safety committee reflects enough individuals who are Plymouth citizens
and not City employees (N.B. minutes Plymouth Safety Committee, March 9,
1988). Their concerns are certainly important but do not have the
citizen input, as I view it, for the new safety committee. Therefore, I
propose a Plymouth citizens advisory safety committee whose focus would
come from Plymouth citizens and their problem areas. These concerns
would become part of the process for improving public safety.
This committee would be under the safety director or his designee. The
committee would be volunteers interviewed by the Council, hopefully, to
avoid single issue folks. Appointment for a two year period would be
from each quadrant and three at large, or one from each precinct of the
City, or whatever. The Council would also decide if alternates should
be appointed. Meetings would be every month or every two months as
called by the chair with the approval of the safety director. The chair
would be appointed by the Mayor or the Council or by the group itself.
Items such as pit bulls, snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles -
educating or banning, water safety, deer problems, the geese shoot,
aerators - ponds and lakes, rescue equipment, speed signs - 30, 40, 45,
crack, improve communications to get volunteers to dig out fire hydrants
in the winter, etc., etc. Problems that could not be resolved by the
committee and the safety director would be given to the City Manager who
would present the problem to the Council at a study session with facts
for potential resolution.
Councilmembers would continue to give their safety concerns, and those
of callers and letter writers, to the Manager for resolution in the
process. A member of the new safety committee would attend all meetings
of the present City safety committee. The communications director would
attend all meetings and, therefore, get any insights in how to educate
the Plymouth citizenry by use of all media.
MINUTES
PLYMOUTH SAFETY COMMITTEE
March 9, 1988
PRESENT: Gary Pouti, Eric Luetgers, Steve Herwig, Russ Elzy, Tim Ole,
Dan Campbell, Stan Scofield, Mark Peterson, Frank Boyles
ABSENT: Sohn Ward
ALSO PRESENT: Dave Drugg, North Star Risk Services; Dave Volker, Employee
Benefit Administration; Bobbi Leitner, Judy McMillin
1. OLD BUSINESS
A. APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY 17 MEETING MINUTES
The committee approved the February 17 minutes as submitted.
B. Report on Safety Activities
1. Follow up on Toro trailer modifications and vendor's
re-evaluation. Mark reported on the status of the modifications
to the Toro trailers. He advised that Dave's Trailer Sales has
not completed the work on the second trailer which was delivered
to them last month for modifications. However, Mark noted that
he is confident the trailer will be finished before it is needed
in the spring.
Mark will also follow up on the written statement from Dave's
Trailer Sales on the modifications made to the first trailer.
2. Convex Mirrors -- The Committee reviewed the status of convex
mirror installations on city vehicles. Vehicles remaining to
have mirrors installed include: 1/2 -tons and vans - 4441, 450,
517, and 522. dim Kolstad has committed to have them installed
by the first week in April.
3. Warming House Attendant Training -- Dave Volker advised that
several other cities provide ice cleats to their employees as an
option whenever working on the ice. The Committee determined
that a training program should be provided to warming house
attendants which includes: 1) orientation on proper methods for
conducting various work operations on the ice, and 2) avail-
ability of cleats for both temporary and full time employees.
All employees are to be told that ice cleats are available for
use at their option. If an employee decides not to wear the
cleats and is injured as a result of a fall on the ice, the
committee will consider the non -wearing of cleats as a factor in
determining accident preventability.
4. New Confined Space Entry Regulations -- Dave Volker advised that
the State has modified its standards for confined space entry.
Dave stated that in comparing the revised State standards to the
City's confined space entry program, the City's program is more
stringent and therefore does not not require revisions.
PLYMOUTH SAFETY COMMITTEE
March 9, 1988
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5. Site visibility at intersections -- Frank advised that the City
Council at its February 22 meeting adopted an ordinance amend-
ment defining sight obstructions which are three feet in height
above the street curb level and within 20 feet of street right-
of-way corner to be a public nuisance. All City employees are
asked to assist in the enforcement of the ordinance, by report-
ing any such sight obstructions to the Planning Department for
investigation.
II. NEW BUSINESS
A. Review of Vehicular & Personal Injury Accidents -- The committee
reviewed one personal injury accident and one vehicular accident.
The personal injury accident was determined non -preventable, and the
vehicular accident to be preventable. Memorandums to City super-
visors will be prepared conveying the committee's findings and
recommendations.
B. Safe Driver Award Pins -- Frank advised he is still waiting to
receive the mock-up of the safe driver award pin. Once received, he
will review it with the committee.
The meeting adjourned at 8:45 a.m.
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: July 28, 1988
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager `
SUBJECT FUTURE CITY ISSUE
You have directed that I prepare materials regarding the issue of deer herds
in Plymouth's developing urban environment. Attached are materials Judy has
assembled including:
1. The original ordinance dealing with deer control and the subsequent
charge provided to the Deer Task Force.
2. The report of the Deer Task Force.
3. Statistics showing deer/vehicle collisions within the community for
19869 1987 and 1988.
4. An evaluation of the effectiveness of the Swareflex animal warning
reflectors on County Road 10, between County Road 18 and Zachary
Lane, before and after reflector installation.
5. A memorandum on the deer census.
6. An article about Lyme's Disease.
Stated briefly, the reports show that for 1986 there were 129 animal/
vehicular accidents, 90% of which were estimated to involve deer. In 1987
the total number incidents involving vehicular/animal accidents was 140.
Again, assuming that 90% involve deer, the total for 1987 would be 126.
From January 1 to July 22, 1988, vehicle/animal collisions have totalled
63. At this rate, and assuming 90% deer involvement, the total for 1988
will be approximately 113.
The deer population in the community is estimated to have increased from 61
in 1981, to approximately 200 in 1985. In 1988, the estimated deer
population is 255, based upon a helicopter census taken earlier this year.
I have attached maps showing both the locations of animal/vehicle accidents
and the location of the deer herds based upon the 1988 survey.
The fact that the deer herd is rising, coupled with the increased intensity
of roadway usage in Plymouth brought about bydevelopment, may be cause for
future concern in the City. Based upon a 1986 public safety report, every
FUTURE CITY ISSUE
July 28, 1988
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accident between an automobile and a deer is unique. Damages range from
small scratches or broken headlights to vehicles being completely totalled.
In some cases the deer escapes with little or no harm; but in most, the deer
is either found dead or must be dispatched by the officer.
There is a hazard to the vehicle driver in such incidents, as well as other
drivers in the roadway. In an attempt to combat one of our worst areas,
Swareflex animal warning reflectors were installed along County Road 10,
between Zachary Lane and County Road 18 in September 1986. The reflectors
were repositioned in August of 1987. Records show that in 1986, 18
deer/vehicle collisions occurred. In 1987 there were 8 and in 1988 there
have been five to date.
The proliferation of Lyme's Disease to humans from ticks which use the deer
as a host, is an ever-increasing concern. Mr. Russell C. Johnson, a
microbiologist at the University of Minnesota, has characterized the Lyme
Disease situation as follows:
In the past few years, that is if it weren't for AIDS (Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome), Lyme Disease would be the biggest public health
problem in the nation."
The increasing size of the herd, the absence of natural predators, the
destruction of crops, the continuing number of deer/vehicle accidents, the
continued development of our community, and the recognition of the dangers
associated with Lyme Disease, suggest that the Council may wish to consider
all aspects of the problems associated with urban deer herds. The problems
are exacerbated by the fact that most people "like" the blending of rural
and urban which wildlife and specifically deer herds represent.
Any solutions contemplated by the City Council must consider the actions of
neighboring communities to and from which the deer herds normally migrate.
The City Council should be aware of this issue as one which will eventually
require attention.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
i
ORDINANCE NO. 85-32
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY= AMENDING CHAPTER 930 OF THE
CITY CODE REGARDING USE OF FIREARMS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
Section 1, Section 930.01, Subd. 1 (e) of the City Code is amended byamendingasfollows:
e). For the destruction of animals birds or reptiles which arediseased, injured, dangerous or—ca--using des ruc on to------propery by
persons specifically authorized to do so by the city manager.
Section 2. Section 1010/01t Subd. 7 of the City Code is amended by theadditionof:
Special Season Hunting Permits 930 $25.00
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon Its passage and
publication.
Adopted by the City Council this 28th day of October , 1985.
ATTEST:
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
ORDINANCE NO. 85- 33
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY;
REPEALING ORDINANCE 85-32
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Plymouth City Ordinance No. 85-32 is hereby rescinded.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be effective upon its passage and publication.
ADOPTED BY THE PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL THIS 4th DAY OF November , 1985.
ATTEST:
Clerk
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: December 4, 1985 for December 16, 1985 City Council Meeting
TO: dames G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT DEER TASK FORCE
SUMMARY: In November the City Council directed that the staff
prepare a charge for the "Deer Task Force" as well as recommendations
for individuals to be selected to the task force. The following
recommendations have been made by Public Safety Director Carlquist and
are recommended for Council endorsement.
1. Task Force Composition - The task force should consist of five
members. The five members would consist of two City staff
members, Dick Carlquist and bane Laurence, a member of the City
Council to be designated by the Council, and the fourth and
fifth members, an advocate and opponent of deer hunting in the
City. It is suggested that Carol Busch who spoke against the
deer season be included, and Dick Mulhollum of Dundee Nursery be
the fifth member of the task force.
2. Task Force Charge - The charge is to develop recommendations to
safely, effectively, and economically deal with the two -fold
problem caused by deer in the community (i.e. the public safety
matter of collisions between vehicles and deer on roadways, and
the destruction of private property including agricultural
crops, trees, etc. through growth of deer herds in the
community).
3. Procedure for Task Force - It is recommended that the staff
would assemble information already provided by Ms. Busch as well
as City generated information and provide that to task force
members as soon as possible following confirmation of their
willingness to serve. The next step would be to establish two
to three meeting dates and times over the next month or two to
complete the assignment. The first meeting would be to review
and discuss the background materials provided, more specifically
define the nature of the problem and brainstorm possible
solutions. The second meeting would be to conclude brainstorm-
ing and focus on selection of potential solutions. The final
meeting would be to review a draft report prepared by the
staff for ultimate presentation to the City Council.
If the Council concurs with this proposal, it would be appropriate to
select a member for participation on the task force and authorize the
City staff to proceed as outlined above.
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: May 30, 1986 for City Council meeting of dune 2, 1986
TO: dames G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Richard J. Carlquist, Public Safety Director
SUBJECT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DEER TASK FORCE
At the Plymouth Forum held on October. 21, 1985, two representatives
from Dundee Nursery briefly explained to the City Council the problem
they are having with deer destroying their nursery stock. Prior to
the Forum I had made a personal site visit to Dundee Nursery and had
observed the damage to nursery stock. An employee, Dick Mulhollam,
personally showed me the site where the deer had been browsing on
their property on a frequent basis. During the Forum, Dundee Nursery
requested that the City Council authorize a special hunting season in
order that the deer could be destroyed. The City staff was requested
to research this subject and bring back to the Council at the next
regular meeting on October 28, 1985, a recommendation.
At the October 28 meeting, the City staff recommended that a special
deer hunting season be authorized pursuant to City ordinance. Also,
this special season would be held in conjunction with the regular bow
and arrow deer season authorized in the State of Minnesota, and this
would be regulated with City Council policy. In order to do this, it
was recommended to the City Council that they authorize a revision to
the City Code, Section 930.01 (e), which would allow the City Manager
to issue permits in accordance with policies that he may, from time to
time, establish. There were numerous requirements set forth in the
policy relating to issuance of permits to hunt deer. Of utmost impor-
tance was acknowledging the safety of the general public when
considering other alternatives to the elimination of the deer
problem. The City Council passed the ordinance amendment and adopted
the policy relating to the issuance of permits to hunt deer.
At the next regular Council meeting held on November 4, 1985, the
entire subject matter was redeliberated. At that time, there was some
Plymouth residents who objected strenuously to the previous ordinance
change and policy adoption which would allow for deer to be destroyed
via a bow and arrow season. Prior to the November 4 Council meeting,
I directed Community Service Officer, bane Laurence, to prepare a
report on the white tail deer population in Plymouth. This report was
completed on November 2, 1985 and copies delivered to the Council on
Sunday, November 3, 1985. This particular document pointed out the
increasing population of deer within the City of Plymouth as well as
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DEER TASK FORCE
May 30, 1986
Page two
reporting on available data relative to the number of motor vehicle/
deer collisions. It was during this Council meeting that emphasis was
placed upon the public safety matter of these collisions between
vehicles and deer. The Council then rescinded its previous action on
the ordinance and City policy, and directed the staff to prepare a
charge for a proposed task force to alleviate the twofold problem with
deer in the community. These two problems were identified as destruc-
tion of property, such as, agricultural crops, etc., and the public
safety matter between vehicles and deer.
At the December 16, 1985 City Council meeting, a recommendation was
made by staff to do the following three things: first, the task
force would consist of five members. These five members would be
Carole Busch, Dick Mulhollam, Jane Laurence, Dick Carlquist, and a
member of the City Council to be designated by the Council, (Council -
member Maria Vasiliou was chosen as the fifth member). Secondly, the
task force charge was to develop recommendations to safely, effec-
tively, and economically deal with the twofold problem caused by deer
in the community (i.e. the public safety problem, and the destruction
of private property problem). And, thirdly, it was recommended that
the staff assemble information already provided by Mrs. Busch as well
as city generated information, and that task force members would hold
approximately three meetings to reach some conclusion for a report
back to the City Council.
During the rest of December, 1985, and the following month, January,
1986, City staff was obtaining accident statistics involving deer./car
collisions. In addition to our own records, there were various
resources that kept these records. However, it must be pointed out
that there were no real agreement in numbers with any of the agencies
that we dealt with, such as Minnesota Department of Transportation,
Hennepin County Highway Department, Department of Natural Resources,
and our own incident complaint reports. As a result of this
confusion, we have now created a separate category for computer entry
on all vehicle, deer accidents in our community.
The first meeting of the task force was held on February 5, 1986.
After a brief orientation to our task force charge, we discussed the
problem -solving methodology that we would be using in this and future
meetings. We decided on the classical approach. This meant simply
that we would try to identify the problem as clearly as possible,
generate as many facts and assumptions during a brainstorming session,
look at as many possible solutions as we could, and finally, select
the best solution that would deal with the original task force
charge. During this meeting, what statistical reports we had compiled
were shared with other task force members. For instance, accident
reports and a spot map of the City of Plymouth indicating the previous
three years vehicle/deer collisions were noted. The bulk of this
meeting was concentrated on formulating a definition of the problem.
After considerable discussion, we agreed to the following definition:
The problem is the deer herd in Plymouth is increasing and the
available habitat is decreasing.' In short, t e env ronment in
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DEER TASK FORCE
May 30, 1986
Page three
Plymouth has been ideal for increasing the size of the deer herd; but,
at the same time, the herd is feeling the impact of a rapidly develop-
ing community.
The second meeting of the task force was held on March 5, 1986. It
was at this meeting that we tried to differentiate between facts and
assumptions surrounding our perception of the deer problem in
Plymouth. We listed fourteen facts and nine assumptions during this
brainstorming. A separate report on this task force meeting was sent
to the City Manager listing each of these facts or assumptions. At
this second meeting we also reviewed some statistics from the Depart-
ment of Natural Resources concerning their confiscation reports from
1978 through 1985 that occurred in the City of Plymouth. These
confiscation reports are made any time that a representative of DNR
either releases a deer to an individual or comes out to pick up a deer
carcass. The data that we received was incomplete because of a change
in recordkeeping by the DNR officials. However, it would appear that
the number of deer kills is generally on the increase.
The final meeting of the task force was held on April 9, 1986. Prior
to this meeting, as much information as possible was assembled from
various sources, such as, the LOGIN network, various wildlife manage-
ment professionals, and many articles obtained through the review of
the literature on this subject matter. Also, either bane or myself
had received information through the mail from cities in the metro
area who are currently experiencing the same problem. Eight articles
from the professional literature on deer control were distributed to
the committee members and individually reviewed. The topics included
fencing, removal techniques, calculating food needs for white tail
deer, and the use of reflectors in reducing vehicle/deer collisions.
This literature was added to the literature provided by Mrs. Busch,
which concerned deer repellents and fencing.
All committee members were in favor of further exploring the subject
of reflectors for at least two of the highway crossings in Plymouth
that have shown for the past three years documented vehicle/deer
accidents. This recommended direction would be in pursuit of one of
the task force's original charges which was to address the public
safety matter of the deer problem. With regard to the deer destruc-
tion of agricultural and nursery crops, the task force decided on a
two prong approach. First, a vertical electric deer fence was found
to provide the most cost benefit analysis. It was acknowledged in the
article that this type of fence offers a low cost alternative to other
types of woven wire fences. In the event that the electric fencing is
not a viable option for the landowner, then the last "Prong" could be
considered by the City Manager. This last resort method would be to
request permission from the DNR to authorize a sharp shooter to
destroy the deer on the property in question. In such cases, the
destruction can take place outside of the normal deer huntinq season.
The only requirement is the permission from the DNR and that the deer
be turned over to them for disposal.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DEER TASK FORCE
May 30, 1986
Page four
Allowing the destruction of deer in this manner- is similar in scope to
the special permits and use of firearm provisions currently allowed
under City Code for elimination of nuisance animals. The City Clerk
currently provides permits for persons on their own property for the
use of firearms for the destruction of crows, rabbits, skunks, or
similar small animals or birds which are a nuisance of which are caus-
ing damage or injury to trees or crops. The Clerk issues about three
of these permits a year. In practice, she notifies our department of
the request and I send out our firearms expert, Sergeant Dennis
Paulson, to survey the general area in which the firearms is to be
used and to report back to us his findings. In this manner we are
better able to control any possible misuse of this section of the City
Code. As I recall, the permits are usually given to farmers who have
a large amount of open space and a particular nuisance problem.
In summary, the task force is recommending that the wildlife warning
reflectors, commonly known as Swareflex reflectors, be strateg ca y
located at two higF incident spots in Plymouth.* And, that persons
growing agricultural and nursery stock as a Business, be directed .o
use the vertical electric deer fence as a preventative device. Only
when this last recommendation falls to minimize the problem caused by
deer consuming agricultural or nursery stock, s ou a-speciai permit
e issued to destroy the deer on that property. Admitte y, t e
prob em w deer in our community is not going to be eliminated by
special permits. But, neither would it be eliminated if we tried to
be involved in wildlife management and establish special bow and arrow
hunting seasons in Plymouth. As our City continues to develop, the
deer population will be squeezed into smaller and smaller corridors
and open park areas. Some of the deer may migrate to the north and
west as they continue to seek better habitat. Yet, many or most of
the deer may just adapt to a smaller environment. No matter what the
future scenario is, the public safety consideration of vehicle/deer
accidents is paramount. If the deer population in Plymouth was
treated in a laissez-faire manner and the ecological forces allowed to
take effect, there was consensus among the task force members that
some magic population number would represent a maximum. Facetiously
speaking, I do not believe this number would surpass the residential
population. And, I also think we will not have so many that we have
to construct separate pathways and other facilities for them! But,
the deer will more than likely continue to be a real as well as a
perceived problem to many. Yet, for the majority of the population of
Plymouth, they may be considered a resource adding to the quality of
life in Plymouth; and, one of the reasons they moved here in the first
place.
The spacing of Swareflex reflectors is approximately every 66 ft.
Reflectors are required on both sides of the road. An approximate
one-half mile of roadway at each of the two locations would have to
be marked. The total cost, including labor, would be approximately
6,500. Maintenance and weed control would add an additional $360
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
May 30, 1986
Page five
DEER TASK FORCE
per year. The two locations recommended are: Zachary Lane and Bass
Lake Road, and County Road 9 near Northwest Boulevard. It is quite
likely that the $6,500 figure is very conservative because one mile
of roadway may have to be marked at each location.
cc: Task Force Members
Councilmember Maria Vasiliou
Carole Busch
Dick Mulhollam
Jane Laurence -Cooper
1986
MOTOR VEHICLE
VS. W P E17PCITYO DEER
SCALE OF MILES
PLYMOUTH- S 4 ,.
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29i.gEBa8 ggtaa BQ 4l lill
STREET MAP
1987
MOTOR VEHICLE VS. ANIMAL INCIDENTS
VFc ) 1 OI SCALE OF MILES
PLYMOUTH- S Q
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1988
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STREET MAP
SWAREFLEX ANIMAL WARNING REFLECTORS:
Experimental area - County Road 10 between Zachary Lane and approximately
300 ft. east of Nathan Lane North.
Reflectors Installed: September 16, 1986
Reflectors Repositioned: 8/17/87 - 10/30/87
Motor Vehicle vs. Animal Cases:
1986 - Total Incidents: 18
Incidents after installation: 13
Incidents after dark: 7
11/06 2125
11/11 2114
11/15 2008
12/01 0606
12/09 0621
12/12 1830
12/22 1748
1987 - Total Incidents: 8
Incidents after dark: 1
01/21 - 0105
1988 - Total Incidents: 5
Incidents after dark: 4
01/11 - 1812
01/11 - 1849
02/03 - 2340
04/17 - 2126
HENNEPIN
PARKS
Suburban Hennepin
Regional Park District
12615 County Road 9
PC Box 41320
Piymouth, MN 55441
Telephone(612)559-9000
Board of Commissioners
David Lotvaoho
Chair
Golden Valley
Shirley A. Bonine
Vice Chair
Maple Plain
Judith S. Anderson
Bloomington
Robert L. Ellingson
Brooklyn Center
Nicholas EoloH
Robbinsdole
Mona H. Moede
Golden Valley
Neil Weber
Mound
Vern J. Hortenburg
Superintendent &
Secretary to the
Board
Iffil *
OOH.
Dick Carlquist
Plymouth City Hall
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, Minnesota 55441
Dear Mr. Carlquist:
February 23, 1988
Enclosed is a map showing the result of the 1988 winter deer
census of Plymouth. The survey was flown on February 10, 1988.
We had an actual count of 255 deer. We included deer seen in the
southern part of Maple Grove because they are essentially all
part of the Plymouth population. A few deer were in eastern
Corcoran and Medina which could be considered as part of the
Plymouth population, but we had to draw the line somewhere. We
believe we counted at least 75 percent of the deer in the
Plymouth population.
Hennepin Parks has flown parts of Plymouth and Maple Grove in
the past. Unfortunately, we have not consistently flown the same
area, so a direct comparison of numbers is difficult. I have
outlined a central core area on the second enclosed map, and I
have estimated what I believe would have been the actual count
not the total population) for this area for each year based on
what we did fly. My estimated counts for the delineated area are:
Year Estimated count
1981 80
1982 130
1983 154
1984 195
1985 no survey
1986 no survey
1987 no survey
1988 255
The results of this survey could be taken as both good news
and bad news. Which is which depends on your point of view. The
deer herd in Plymouth and the immediate surrounding area is at an
all-time high in 1988. However, the rate of growth is not as
rapid as it was in the early 1980's. Residential and commerical
development in Plymouth and Maple Grove may be reducing habitat
to the point where it is beginning to have an impact on the deer
herd. I must emphasize the word may. Since the winter of
1986-87 was without snow, deer stayed spread out in their normal
2 c
Mr. Dick Carlquist
Plymouth City Hall
Page 2
February 23, 1988
summer habitat. Deer -car collisions continued to occur at a high
rate throughout the winter. Most of the areas we surveyed in
1988 showed a decrease in numbers from 1986, possibly due to
increased highway mortality. The same may be true in Plymouth.
The increase in the deer herd in Plymouth between 1984 and
1988 was as large an increase as was seen anywhere. Lack of data
from 1985 through 1987 prevents a more detailed assessment. The
area between Highways 9 and 47 has as high a deer density as any
place of comparable size that we have surveyed.
The survey took 2.5 hours at $130 per hour. Please submit a
check for $325.00, made payable to Hennepin Parks, to Pat Sheetz,
Hennepin Parks, 12615 County Road 9, P. 0. Box 41320, Plymouth,
MN 55441. I hope this letter can serve as an invoice. Let me
know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
L. N. Gillette
Wildlife Manager
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Enclosures
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tick bite wrecked
one woman s
health and life
E : for more than
SIX years
before doctors
diagnosed
Symptoms of Lyme disease
are varied, irregular and unpredictable
These are some of the afflictions of
just one woman, Linda Hanner,
over a 6112 -year period:
I WAS LIKE A
CAGED ANIMAL'
Disorientation, fatigue,
dizziness, confusion,
severe headaches,
For 61/2 years Linda Hanner suffered
through a chamber of medical horrors.
Finally the culprit was discovered:
a deer tick. The ailment: Lyme disease.
depression, general
By George Monaghan
weakness, fainting ven though it was seven She could- hardly make it through
years ago, Linda Hanner the day. She didn't feel any better
remembers the day clearly. the next day, either, and a few days
Numbness It was a good day. She had later she noticed that the left side of
on the left worked hard all day, and her face was numb, as if she had a
then toward evening she had mowed shot of Novocain.
side of the face the lawn out back of her home near It set off her good day by sheer
Maple Plain and cooked dinner for contrast.
her husband and four children. From That was just the beginning.
her kitchen she could hear the goat It was as if her body jammed into
in the barn, see the ducks, in the reverse, spinning her life out of con -
yard. She could look out over the trol and dragging her and her family
rolling countryside` and : now and through a chamber of medical misery
Inflammation then watch deer grazing by the back in which her torments were blamed
in the lungs, fence. variously on a viral infection, a brain
chest pains,
She felt so good she got on her
bike that evening and rode to Rock-
five
tumor, multiple sclerosis, mononu-
cleosis, arthritis, lupus, inflamma-
shortness of breath ford miles away and back again. tion of the nerves, meningitis, severe
It surprised her. She couldn't stop depression, Huntington's chorea, a
herself. She was always moving, al- Parkinsonian variety of disease, Ep-
ways busy. stein -Barr virus, heart trouble, sexu'-
But that wasn't what made the al frustration and, when nothing else
day different. What made the day seemed to fit, mental problems.
different was what happened later on She was to see 29 physicians, in -
when she awoke one morning. eluding several psychiatrists, six
She got up feeling a way she had neurologists, three internists, a gyne -
never felt before, disoriented, fa- cologist and two urologists. At vary-
tigued, a little dizzy and confused:; ing times she was taking 20 different
Repetitive' and uncontrollable
jerking of muscles,
impaired function
of the right leg
affil •:"
Photos by Tom Sweeney
anger months of the tick
ie low-risk months for tick bites are in midwinter, when last year's adults are
rmant. Moderate risk begins in the spring, when last year's adults become
tive, and nymphs start to emerge. The highest risk is in midsummer, when the
rmphs becorne active. Moderate risk
ntinues through the autumn
hen adults remain active.
Modera
risk
Low risk
AN. FEB. MAR.I APRIL MAY JUNE
ce/Pfizer Central Research
ie disease spun Hanner's body out of control.
licines including sleeping pills
depressants, drugs to keep her
Iles from repetitive and uncon-
lable jerking, and prednisone to
I down inflammation. She had to
a wheelchair when getting
find became difficult for her.
wice she tried to commit suicide.
e she was locked in a hospital
ling room with nothing but a bed
four white walls.
ler problems came and went in
redictable peaks and valleys for
next seven years, and there were
es she £figured she really was cra-
and that. she'd be spending the
of her life in a mental institution
if not that., in a wheelchair. '
Moderate risk
OCT. I NOV DEC`
Her husband of 20
years, Kim, a cabi-
netmaker and cus-
tom furniture fin-
isher; has a hard
time talking about
those days. He
would like to forget
the whole thing.
Linda Hanner can't.
She's a coanpact lit-
tle bird of a woman,
40 now, with soft,
wavy, blond hair
and sharply de
fined features and "
quick blue eyes as
clear as ice, and
when she tells of her
medical odyssey sh
hardly knows where to
start.
In the beginning,
hardly anyone else
knew either. But peo-
ple were learning.
Just about the time
Linda Harmer was at
the end of tier tether, they were
Finding out. What they were finding
was that Linda Hanner was not
alone. There were, perhaps, hun-
dreds of other Linda Hanners
around Minnesota in one degree or
another and many multiples of her
around the rest of the country. And
in all likelihood what they were find-
ing was nothing new. It may have
been there for years, possibly being
misdiagnosed in one way or another.
If Linda Hanner had known she
could have looked out her kitchen
window and have seen part of the
problem_ right there the dee?, graz-
ing in the field of Lake Rebecca Park
Reserve behind her house. Deer car -
The tic.h.,Lltttf. trnrismits_the,,,3grC.iia -
burgdorferi spirochete to humams is
the Ixodes"damrn'int dee`ri ek 7tis
smaller thein the commond_otick (a
aMpparrson; actetd2 s""ize iK s cTayV,,n7a...t11Z .
iClzcsttatiori tytid.. ads -ori -mice. birds,
raccoons, dogs deer, horses and hu
irin`ns A7CUtis atCZF CR`eirise2ties Co lame
fiosic—usually white-tailed deer—
where they mate. The rnales then die,''
but females continue to feed to obtain
protein for egg development. The tich's life cycle lasts two
years, and at all stages it feeds on humans and other
animals.
When an Ixodes dammini has sucked blood it swells to
several times its normal size. The nymph is so tiny that it is
almost invisible. The bite is-notpainfutrbut-if-the..tick..is,.-
infected with arojhetes, it may transmit them t jfkebo.Giy.
l-tik b'adoes not alu?gys_ result in Lyme disease.'
Linda's story
begins with
them.
0
ne
c {
probably
right around
that day late in July part of the ' land has be-
1981, as she worked in her garden come a wildlife park, an
behind the house and was telling island of nature in a spreading urban
herself how great it was to be so full sea.
of life, a tiny tick got on her skin and Most likely she was in her garden.
started crawling for a warm spot on Whenever she had a chance, and she
her body. wasn't working in her business—
For her, that was nothing unusual. contract housecleaning around the
She had been picking ticks off her- area—she was working in her gar -
self and her kids for years. They ` den, days at a time if she had the
lived, after all, out in the country chance. A little tick must have
among wildlife some 20 miles west of crawled up her leg. ODl ,this wasn't
the Twin Cities, on a few acres that dust a common wood tick that swells
used to be a farm. Now there are a grotesquey op off and leas es a
few houses along the road, and a big Lyme continued nn page 8
Illustrations and graphics by Eddie Thomas i
7
T__ q
Lyme
continued from page 7
little welt and: pesters all varieties of
mammalian life.
This was what has become known
innocently as a deer tick, a tiny cousin
of the wood tick, that in the eyes of
many scientists these days has grown
into a monster.
Even its name has the ring of the
devil in it: Ixodes dammini.
The -damage it ,can do was reported
first in-_1975_.in_Lipie. 11W!n:r in .a
medical case that was as mysterious
then to the town of Lyme as Linda
Hanner's was to her and her doctors
six years later.
Because there were
no deer there were ;
no cases... But then
we instituted laws to
control bunting, and the
population started
coercing back, and now
we are having a full
resurgence, and Lyme
disease is on the rise."
Russell C. Johnson
Microbiologist
A resident, Polly Murray, liked to
watch white-tailed deer from her win-
dow too. She started worrying when
she and family members began suffer-
ing from unexplained illnesses more
than a dozen years ago. She was, in
fact, hospitalized for some of the same
symptoms Linda .'Hanner developed,
and her sons had paralyzed face mus-
cles and swollen joints. Doctors said it
was juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
She and her family weren't alone.
Others around Lyme had similar prob-
lems. They began keeping count. They
began calling state health officials with
their findings, fevers and skin rashes
and swollen joints and nervous disor-
ders. Doctors didn't take them serious-
ly at first. Dermatologist.-, weren't in-
terested in,the swollen joints; infec-
tious -disease doctors didn't muchcare
about arthritic symptoms
Fact was, the town had a cluster of
50 cases with the symptoms of juvenile
R
rheumatoid arthritis. That's more
than 10,000 times higher than normal,
and that aroused the interest of Allen w
C. Steere, a rheumatologist at the Yale~^
University SCI1001 of Medicine. He ex- at` t..
amined the notebooks ,kept .by _th,e NEW IDE XMf ,
Lyme mothers and interviewed victims
who recalled, that they, had angry red N COLORrashesshapedalittle, like'doughnuts J (_ "
that spread_Qut from the center.
It was arhefoundsimilto a rash MASCARA. `R/ A
1. described first in Europe in 1909 and t
called erythema chronicum migrans, rt
which means a chronic red rash that And no moremigrates. It comes from tick bites. + P
Steere also examined a tick itself-, a ' t
victim saved one that wasn't much raccoon eyes. i v
bigger than a pinhead, a dark brown
and hard -bodied little speck.
Steere and David Syndman, then
acting state epidemiologist in Con-
necticut, wrote the first article telling
of the symptoms of Lyme in the medi-
cal literature
ean-
calliterature in the United States.
A
couple of years later, Synd-
t,
man called a former -class-
mate at Tufts University,
Christian Schrock, now epi- ' s
derniologist and director of infectious
diseases at Ninth Memorial Medical
Center in Robbinsdale.
y. You ought tq be 104king..or Lyme #.
disease out 41e_becauseyou'-ve-got a
lot of ticks" Schrock recalls him say-
Ing. 'Then, Schrock said, "I went home ' x
and looked up this one case I had here,
it case with a lot of problems after a
tick bite, and he had the same raspy t
and chorea and Bell's paralysis and
arthritis. He filled the definition." "
That was in 1977: Schrock pub- No embarrassing smudges, rt t++
lished an article on the case, the first Clumps, smears, flaking, runnir
diagnosed in Minnesota- u ` - Max Factor's No Color
About the same time, a leading au- ` Mascara is a totally new brealthorityonticks, Andrew Spielman of through concept, IC's the firsttheHarvardSchoolofPublicHealth, g p "
identified the guilty tick as a deer tick, i ys .y, .
crystal dear, natural lash defin
which had been named 1. 'damming, without the problem -causingafteraretiredcolleagueofSpielcnan's,' "" heavy colorants of traditionalGustaveDammin. Dammin later `
a`
a
t mascaras. caught the disease himself. w ` '"
Work on the disease was just begin-Lasheslook longer, Darker.
hind. Sculpted. Curled. Defined. Cc
What did the tick do that caused all r
the trouble?
u. _ ditioned. Lashes stay set and
In 1981 an entomologist and inter- f h „ kook natural all day. Lashes fet
nationally known authority on tick dean, light and flexible -not
diseases at the Rocky Mountain Lab- t
s heavy, Stick)/ Of Stiff. oratories in Hamilton, Mont., Willy = No Color Mascara is perfecBurgdorfer, found the answer.A fatal
case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever ?- ° for you if you wear contact
had been transmitted by a dog tick off lenses. Perfect for sensitive
the coast of eastern Ling Island in f yp g (it's haper enlC) eyes@ O An( YNewYork. It was fall, and the tick
real( perfect if you wantthatcausesthefeverwasn't found, so l c y p y
health authorities collected the little lashes that look longer, darker
deer ticks instead and sent them to, { more naturally beautiful,
Burgdorfer. " e" {
in most cases entomologists exam- ,
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ine a tick by tearing off a leg, tile"
squeezing out some of its internal fluid
on a slide and putting it under the
microscope to look for bacteria. Burg-
dorfer didn't, find the bacteria that
cause spotted fever, but by chance he
saw a parasite that interested him. He
dissected the tick to examine its diges-
tive tract.
What he found was a surprise. Tllg_
tigU g'ut was teeming with long,cork..
sciev.L-spirochete._hacteria. Burgdorfer
put 2 and 2 together. Spirp hetes._,'
didn't cause R ky--Mountainfever.
T'ic%a carried Lyme -disease,
WNW 14 had was -a strong jy ile
suspect a coiled unicellular creature so-
small it passes through laboratory fit-
tors designed to trap bacteria.
To pin down the suspicion, serum
samples from Lyme patients were sent
to Burgdorfer, and he tested them for
the presence of antibodies to the spiro-
chetes. The results were positive. In-
fected ticks were allowed to feast on
the shaved skin of albino rabbits. The
same kind of rash appeared. Live spi-
rochetes were found.
bout a year after Linda Han -
tier was bitten in Maple
Plain, spirochetes had been
isolated from the blood and
cerebrospinal fluid of Lyme victims.
In Minneapolis, Russell C. Johnson,
a microbiologist who has been study-
ing spirochetes for 22 years at. the
University of Minnesota School of
Medicine, studied the spirochete DNA.
That pinned the tick down even more.
He found it was a new species of an old
genus of spirochetes that includes
syphilis. It is called borrelia, and in
honor of Willy Burgdorfer, it was
named Borrelia burgdorferi.
Johnson's laboratory also isolated
the spirochete in laboratory animals.---
hamsters, in this instance. That en-
abled researchers to begin testing anti-
biotics that could be used to tight it.
What makes burgdorferi so difficult
doFinsonsays, is that it'g 'tiny and
difficult to isolate. Once it_gets_ninto
the bloodstieam, it moves-out--in--all
directions. Its proliferation goes on for
years. Johnson has found_ it in -the
eyes, the brain, the liver, cerebral spi-
nal fluid and testes of various mam-
mals. Its effects cone and go if never
treated. It never leaves.
Unfortunately, lie says, science isn't
Icalled the
doctor back
and told him I was
really scared, and
he said lie was
sorry, 'You've got
too many
symptoms, and
you ought to call a
Psychiatrist.' He
didn't want to talk
about it anyinore.
I
Linda Hanner
too sure about what it does to a body
once it gets in. Is it poisonous or
something? Science isn't sure. What it
knows for sure is the body's reaction.
Burgdorferi simply drives its defenses
wild in many people. The -reaction it-
self helps produce symptoms.
How the deer tick gets it isn't that
clear either. It may get it from white-
footed mice, for instance, but science
isn't sure whether the mouse gives it to
the tick or vice versa. Itslarvaebite
birds and rodents and people, and al-
though the adult phase doesn't feed on
rodents, it does feed on people, dogs,
cats, raccoons, horses, cattle and, most
likely, any other medium or large
mammal that happens to pass close by:
Deer, although they don't develop
the same ill effects as people, are one
of the happiest feeding grounds for the
dammini tick. They're easy pickings.
The tick simply grabs onto its head as
the deer grazes through the brush.
Johnson has Pell deer heads with a:
many as 250 ticks in various stages o:
engorgement.
Johnson thinks the (leer is on,
jof
the
low its
sevent4
4tItm--Massachusetts, Rhod(
Island, Connecticut, New York ane
New Jersey in the East and MinnesoU
and Wisconsin in the Midwe,_;t- oln
son thinks it is just a matter of tiine
until it spreads over the whole country
Que."f his n "uoted statement!
in the, east few year„ ,m_
isthat i, r
we ernt for i DS (acgu red'W,nunt
deficiency `s.Yndromcl, I,vme„; tiiS a.3
woulc"lie""'Elie6igge;t, puh lt;h altl
probieiriiri thenntinn. lie stands h+
that.
icason for the spread of Lyme i;
the ,p a if r wxl mer `sin(:eWadi
The tick is spreading," Johnsoi
says, "we know that. It wasn't always
that way. Back in the 1800s, when th,
environment for deer was ideal aloe;
the East Coast, people, demolished t.h,
entire population. Sante thing flap
pened in southern Wisconsin. Thee
brought out people from Chicago, ani
they'd shoot sometimes 10,000 in i
day. 'They were doing it to prornot
development, and because there wer
no deer there were no cases. The sain
thing happened in Europe, only then
the population of deer was killed of
for meat in World War U.
1J3n ,n.we_instituted..laws.tcr.cQ9
trot huntkpg_and the population start
ed cQmin> - back, and novy we are__hav
ing a full resurgenee_,_a_nd Lyme diseas
is on the rise."
Thera-tlrepla esiw-western Wiscon
sin, he says, where 80 percent ofjh
white-foote6d `mrck and 6 percent
the deer have the .spirochete. On
woman fr6ro NuethOalis bas"a hone
in that part of the state, and recentl
she brought Johnson three plastic bag
filled with ticks, 10 from her, 653 fror
her puppy and 401 from her adu)
dogs.
And these were adult ticks," h
says. "The nymphs are too small fc
most people to see."
n Minnesota there have been feu
er that. 100 cases a year sine
Christian Schrock at North M(
morial Medical Center diagnose
the first case in the state and reporte
it in 1977.
It wasn't until last fall, when Lind
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continued from page, IU
Hanner saw Schrock on television,
talking about the Epstein-Barr syn-
drome—a viral disease similar to
mononucleosis—that the medical com-
munity began to zero in on her partic-
ular ailments that began that day in
July as she worked in her yard.
Somewhere in the yard, a female
danunlnl was lurking, its back legs
gripping a leaf of grass or a weed or a
twig, its front ones reaching out like a
pro wrestler waiting for a victim to
come dose.
Linda couldn't have seen it, even
once it was on her. Unless it was an
adult, it was too small. Even an adult
would probably look more to her like a
speck of dirt. The nyrnph, the midlife
stage of a tick, is smaller than that,
and the infant, or larva, isn't much
bigger than a grain of finely ground
pepper.
When Linda carne by, it could tell
because it senses carbon dioxide in
quantities so small they've never been
measured. Linda was exhaling it. That,
combined with a little butyric acid
from sweat, was a sure sign that dinner
was on the way.
The sequence probably went some-
thing like this:
Linda passes by.
The tick grabs her with outreached,
barb -covered legs.
It begins creeping on her skin.
Then, once aboard, it begins its
search, feeling for tiny warm spots,
smelling for blood.
It searches about a half-hour, then
finds the tender spot where the skin is
thin, an earlobe, say. It feels the heat
from nearby blood, senses the carbon
dioxide given off by warm blood.
Dinner is ready.
The operation begins.
It's done by a master, with chernis-
try and sharp instruments. This is how
Ulrike Munderlow, an entomologist at
the University of Minnesota and a
specialist in ticks and tick habits, de-
scribes what happens next:
Tire tick anchors itself solidly to the
surface with two segmented jaws
equipped with claws and adhesive
pads. When it takes hold, it cuts into
the skin with a serrated spear between
its jaws that under a microscope looks
a little like a chain saw.
Once it saws its way in and finds the
capillary, some tricky tick chemistry
goes to work. It begins secreting a
cement to hold it in so tight a victim
has to pull the tick off to get rid of it,
and even then the spear remains in the
capillary and often has to be cut out
surgically.
Then the real work begins, meal-
time. For the ,youngest arid smallest
i
HOW TO_AVOID BITE_ S on a regular basis, do not wearTICK
hen you are in tick work clothing home. This will
reduce the chances of bringinghabitat ;(grassy, brushy orWW00d1andareas), several ticks home and exposing family
precautions can minimize your
members,
chances of being bitten by a tick. WHAT TO DO IFTuckyourpantlegsintoyour
socks. 'Puck your shirt, into your
n :,k 1 t: f d
BITTEN BY A TICK
pan s. _ eer tic s gra on u eet an
legs and then climb up. This
precaution will keep them on the
outside of your clothes; where they
can be spotted and picked off.
Wear light-colored clothing.
Dark ticks can be spotted most
easily against a light background.
Inspect your clothes for ticks
often while in tick habitat. Have a
companion inspect your back.
Wear repellents, applied
according to label instnictions.
Application to shoes- socks, cuffs
and pant legs is most effective
against deer ticks.
Inspect your head and body
thoroughly when you get in from
the Field. Have a companion` check
your back, or use a mirror.
When working in tick habitat
emove the tick as soon as
possible. The easiest. method
is to grasp the tick with line '
tweezers, as near to theskin as you
can, and gently pull it out. You may
want to save the tick in a small jar
for later identification. Check to c -
see whether the mouth parts broke
off in the wound, If they did, seek
inedical attention to get them
removed, If you get any symptoms
of Lyme disease in the following
week to several months, see a
physician immediately. Be sure to
tell the doctor that you were bitten
by a tick: A blood test can help
determine if you have been exposed
to Lyme disease.
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My whole body would jerk
J uncontrollably. My foot would
t pull in sharply. ... We were getting
used to those things."
a
deer tick, the larva, that takes only a
day. For the adolescent, the nymph, it
takes a couple of days, and for the
adult it takes a full work week, five
days.
When it's full, the tick is -about three
times bigger than when it began. But
even then it has more work W do. It
has to get back out again. To do that,
it goes back to chemistry. It secretes a
substance to dissolve the cement an-
choring it in place.
That takes a half-hour more. 'Then
the tick removes itself and drops to the
ground. If it's an adult, it lays its eggs,
and the whole tick life cycle, one that
lasts two years, begins again.
Linda Hanner was free of the tick.
Then the spirochete went to work. She
began feeling its effects several days
later when she awoke feeling uncharac-
teristically down. She couldn't get her-
self in focus for the rest of the clay.
By the end of a couple of weeks, the
spirochetes were multiplying, moving
through the blood to other parts of the
Linda Hanner
body, heading for the joints, the cen-
tral nervous system.
hat. bothered Linda, in
the beginning, was not be-
ing able to pull out of it
after being so fit. Only
once in her life, in 1978 when she was
under a lot of stress, had she ever
experienced a prolonged depression
that required medical care.
This was different. She wasn't under
a lot of stress; her life was going along;
smoothly. She was 33 years old, con-
stantly active with friends and in
church, always busy working, and her
health was good.
As the week progressed, and the
spirochetes invaded the nervous sys-
tem, and the body's immunological
system reacted against diem, the left
side of her face went Novocain -numb.
The urge to urinate wouldn't leave.
In four days she saw her doctor. He
thought it was it virus, and four days
later, when the symptoms intensified,
she called back, He told her there were
several possibilities for such a persis-
tent problem: multiple sclerosis, a
nerve inflammation, tumors, a brain
tumor and, Finally, a neurosis that, she
figured, he, mentioned because of the
depression she had had three years
before,
He advised blood tests. A week and
a half later the results were in; Every-
thing they checked for in blood tests in
those days was normal. One of the
things they weren't checking for was
Lyme disease. They didn't know how
to look for it, anyway, but with Linda
they had no reason to. There was- no
characteristic red doughnut rash. Like.,
host rasescifTy'[5ie disease4 re.nev-
er had been. In fact, she couldn't recall
a tick bite.
After the tests showed nothing, her
health went from bad to worse, follow-
ing some of the symptoms of the sec-
ond phase of Lyme disease.
I was really getting scared now,"
she said- "I started getting weak spells.
I'd collapse right in the middle of the
floor, and so I called the doctor back
and told him I was really scared, and
lie said he was sorry, 'You've got too
many symptoms, and you ought to call
a psychiatrist,' He didn't want to talk
about it anymore.
But the pain was getting worse. I
stayed home front work another week,
and'I had no idea what to do or who to
call. We tried to call aneurologist, but
they told us you have to be referred to
a neurologist, and so finally my hus-
band called our doctor back, and this
time he put me in the hospital for a
few days."
Multiple sclerosis was suspected by
then, and Hanner said that actually
relieved her. "I'd read up on multiple
sclerosis, and I knew it went into re-
mission after a while, and so I told
myself, 'Fine, go home and wait for it
to go into remission.' It didn't alarm
me at all, but it did my friends.
Everyone said I should rest with
MS, and so I always had friends and
relatives corning over to do the house-
work, and if I'd come out to help,
they'd all tell me W get back into bed,
so that part was kind of nice."
The nice part didn't last long. A
week after she was out of the hospital,
new symptoms developed. Her right
leg began to drag, the result again of
the struggle between her body defenses
and the spirochete that was now pro-
ducing an inflammation possibly of the
brain itself or the blood vessels, which
restricted the flow of blood to the
brain.
One part of the brain controls leg
movements. That part was now in-
volved.
Later, Linda would develop inflani-
mation in her lungs.
As the disease advances through the
body, symptoms continually come and
go, ane Ilariny unexpectedly, another
Ding unexplainably dormant.
Since thehod}-is_producing antigens
and reactive cells to fight -the -spiro-
chete, symptosis can show-upin many
places and many times -and at _often
unpredictable. in In Linda's
case she began feeling it in the heart
and lungs too.
n August, Linda went to see a
neurologist, and he ordered a se-
ries of neurological tents ta, moni-
tor brain waves and,ylsual a•nd_
auditory responses, and he told her one
thing he was of. 'iig,jormwaswa&rain
I umor.
He told me it wasn't a tumor to
worry about, and the tests would be
back in three weeks, and so I had three
weeks to wonder.... They went: by
pretty fast, but I developed this pain in
my head then, just like something was
stuck in it, a rod or something, just
stuck there."
To aid in the diagnosis of multiple
sclerosis, she said, she was given a
spinal tap. Within 13 hours she devel-
oped what she described as the worst
headache of her life, so bad it disabled
her. She couldn't move her head, and
for two full weeks she got out of bed
only to relieve herself. Her doctor told
her to take Tylenol. 'Tylenol didn't
help.
When the spinal tap failed to show
evidence of multiple sclerosis,,a psy-
chiatrist was advised. She went to him,
He listened to the for an hour and
said, 'Well, I can't tell whether your
problems are psychological or not.' He
patted me on the back and told me he
really thought my problem was sexual
frustration and said we can give you
some antidepressants, and maybe they
can help.
I said, 'No, I'm not depressed. I'm
sick,' and I left."
She went to another neurologist,
then a psychologist, took psychological
tests (all showed normal), then the
neurologist again. By this time he was
losing his patience. At one point, as
she recalls, he told her, "Well, what do
you want me to do, cut open ,your
head?
It went on like that all summer:
head pains, chest pains, shortness Of
breath, no strength, involuntary'
spasms, tier limp. And for the next two
years her life was a story of this ail-
ment or that, coming and going and
coming back again.
She was beginning to have doubts
about her sanity and would lie in bed
for hours at night trying to figure out
what was wrong. Her husband was
patient, Her kids were frightened. She
was often awake all night, and the kids
would get up in the morning and get
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ready for school without making a
sound.
That was her life until early in 1984.
She began having "bizarre weak spells
where I'd just start collapsing. My
whole body would jerk uncontrollably.
My foot would pull in sharply. One
night we were watching television, and
my foot pulled in, and 1 said, 'Kim,
look at this,' and then my head felt
funny, and he laid me on the floor, and
my whole body started jerking, like I
was having a convulsion.... But we
didn't get shook up by it. We were
getting used to those things. I was
getting numb to everything. ,I didn't,
like it, but I didn't getshook by it.
So in spite of the jerking around 1
on the third day the
aching went
away. The jerking went
away. My walking was
better. 1 went out and
walked a mile."
Linda Hanner
could get up and do things in the
kitchen, and the kids would get the
giggles because it looked so funny, and
Jennifer (her 14 -year-old daughter)
thought I looked like a chicken walk-
ing, and we all got to laughing over it."
More inconclusive tests were made,
and once more her doctor was saying it
was a psychological problem, .and so,
after three years, she was back to
square one again.
She was beginning to grasp at
straws. Once she Beard about nervous
disorders caused by goat's milk, and so
she stopped drinking ,milk from her
goat.
n April 1984, Linda Harmer put
herself under the care of Dr.
Christian Schrock at North Me-
morialMedical Center, and by
January 1985 she was back in the
hospital for five days under the care of
another neurologist for tests designed
to find the cause of her chorea spasms.
She was also tested for lupus and dis-
eases similar to it.
Just.before $he was to leave,_a hgspi-
tal aide_ Qame._i ,and said, -wait, they
needed.a little blood_foz.one more test,
Lyme disease. That was a new one
eveci'-fore Linda Nanner. , She ,.went
home aiid lookeW up in_her expand-
ing medical library.
She found nothing,
And in subsequent visits to physi-
cians, no mention of it was made to
her because, as she was to learn later,
the state had so little faith in the Metropolitan Medical So once more Linda Han would stop the progression of t movements."
the accuracy of serological Center in a holding room tier was tested for Lyrne. Tie- the disease, because the arti- "I had to pinch myself,"
tests for Lyme disease that no with nothing but a bed and test showed she had a low cles I read on it said if the said Linda Hanner•
tests were completed. four walls and a locked bath level of spirochete aratiboclies- symptoms lasted too long Once again she's healthy
In February, to control her room to look at. She would be in her blood, indicating she they might be irreversible. So and energetic. Once again
spasms, a different medicine there for three weeks, and, had bcenitte by _`adeer 1 didn't expect reversal. she's planning a big garden
was prescribed: prednisone, she said, "It. scared the living _tick. But it was enough. The "But on the third day the and working lots of overtime
an anti-inflammatory drug. daylights out of my husband. family- was-happy_to, spClid_ aching went away, The jerk on her new job at the weekly
It worked. "I began to really think I about $2,000 for the treat- ing went away. My walking newspapers in Delano and
Her symptoms disap- was crazy. They were right all trent.with-an antibiotic called was better. I went out and Rockford.
peared. But it worked so well these years. I really thought, I ceftriaxone generically -,and walked a mile. By Thanksgiv- Now there's something
it made her euphoric. would be spending the rest of A'o,cephin commercially- ing the symptoms were all , new, though. She's writing a
When she was told to cut my life in a mental instit-u- The way it works is simple. gone. I was back to normal." book. It's called "Of Power
down the dosage, she began tion." 1lt, i_ 11GeXensuS, t_gets into On Dec. IG, 1987, Schrock and Love," after a verse in
developing frightening mood the entral rervous-system wrote Witik a letter. It said in the Bible, and it's about
swings. She didn't sleep. Shefter about lb where the.spirochete"'is-esus- part: hanging in there when life
paced the floor. She said she months. most of ing.Q-much-.havocThen -it "The patient hada a rather gets tough.
felt as if she were being her symptoms went `kills, the spirochete and;glimi- remarkable response, and
plunged into a pit. Her hus- away, anwdlifewas `nates it frn the body. within a few days developed a George 1Flonaghan is a Star
band took her to stay for a getting back to normal. Then. `" r ihemostoped for with lessening and then a complete Tribune staff writer,
week with her mother, Mar- Madder pressure returned, it," Linda said, "was that it stoppage of her choreoform
ion Kaspar, in Deephaven. Then the aching back. Then
She hadn't slept for four the chorea. One night the
trinights. Then; one Sunday family was watching televi- It THE NPW MOISTURIZING'
night, she tried to make din- sion, and she started having "
ner and couldn't. Her bus- chorea spasms. Her husband ,' y
band told her to go to bed, was so exasperated he got up r
I went into the bath- and walked out. The kids tr, `
room," she said, "and found started crying. She didn't
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an old razor blade and cut my know what to do. 0 1 - Cal-ricd 1 lll. • 14
wrists." Once again, visits to a neu-
The next week she spent in rologist. Once again, more 1 x
the psychiatric ward in North tests. Once again,
hmorees
midi. I A + ^ (
j'`
A
Memorial Medical Center. cine to control the spasms.
J
j )c s Y y t' J(`.' nWhenshewasreleased, she But how there was adiffer- J • came home with four bottles ince. She found it difficult to
of medicine, including a hot- walk without losing her Non -comedogenic" means no clogged pores, even withtlefullofsleepingpills, anti breath. She couldn't even
depressants and a couple of make it around the grocery frequent use Over time: And Neutrogena vioisntrc means
varieties of tranquilizers, store. And so the cycle of doc- extra -effective, non-cornedogenic moisturizing. Just
She tells what happened a tors and tests began again, listen to the ibmcn who've tried it;
week later: this time at the Mayo Clinic:
During that week I took An electric neurostimulator "it makes my skin look 10 years younger, and so natural
the medications, and we went was attached to her side, and.. I've stopped using foundation" - foAnnT.,rcancck,NJI
back to the doctor and said it controlled the jerking =
the medicine wasn't having spasms even though they "it restored my skin's beautiful condition!
any effect and I was getting hadn't been diagnosed. Later Love that sunscreen, too
worse, not better, and I was a wheelchair was prescribed. ,, 4 Mertaa z,No ndare rt
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: August 15, 1988
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
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FROM: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT 1989 CITY COUNCIL CALENDAR
Councilmember Zitur has asked that we review the proposed 1989 City Council
calendar at the August 16 special meeting. Attached is a draft calendar
showing 1989 regular and special council meetings, proposed town meetings,
budget study sessions, City Council/dinner study meetings, in addition to
unscheduled Monday evenings. The Council should determine whether revisions
should be made to this draft calendar.
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attachment
1989:
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
1989
MEETINGS
REGULAR
6
6, 20
3, 17
1, 15
5, 19
3, 17
7, 21
18
2, 16
6, 20
4, 18
1989 CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE
SPECIAL
23
27
27*
24*
22
26*
24*
28*
23*
27*
TOWN
MEETINGS OPEN
30 (Area 4)1 9
13
13
10 (Area 1) ---
8
12
10, 31
14
30
13
11
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MONDAY BUDGET
HOLIDAY STUDY
SESSIONS
2, 16
20 --
29 22 object.
4 59 11, 25
9 Yom Kippur ---
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May 22 Budget Objectives/Orientation
Sept 5 Budget Study Session I
Sept 11 Budget Study Session II
Sept 18 Budget Hearing
Sept 25 Budget Study Session III
Joint Council/Commission Dinner Meetings
To be scheduled at least annually for each commission.
Council/Staff Dinner/Study Meetings
Written agenda to be provided to Council one week before meeting for approval.
Mar. 27 Park and Recreation
Apr. 24 City Manager
June 26 1988 Auditor's Report
July 24 Public Works
Aug. 28 Community Development
Oct. 23 Finance
Nov. 27 Public Safety
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3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: August 17, 1988
TO: Mayor & City Council
FROM: James G. Willis, City Manager
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SUBJECT LAND USE AND POPULATION DATA
At last night's Council study meeting I reviewed with you various data
dealing with changes in the City's population, dwelling mix, as well as land
use reguiding. Attached are the data sheets I referred to during our
meeting.
The first sheet illustrates the population changes in Plymouth over the
years and household data as well. This data is not new to the Council, but
at least is consolidated in order that you can be acquainted with it as you
review the other data.
Data from Scott Hovet indicates that between 1987 and 1988, we added just
over 1,000 dwelling units. A substantial number of these, 453, were
apartments. Approximately 61% of our housing stock in 1988 is
single-family, with approximately 22% classified as apartments. One year
ago, just over 63% of the homes were single-family, and 21% classified as
apartments.
The third sheet indicates the number of developments which have received
preliminary or final plat approval, but for which permits have not been
issued. The significance of these data are the relationship of
single-family and multi -family dwelling units which may yet be built over
the next several years. If these dwelling units are built as contemplated
in the platting, the relationship between single-family and apartments will
further close. Based upon my calculations, if all the developments
indicated are built, we will have just over 12,000 single-family dwellings
and slightly more than 6,800 apartments. The proportionate share of the
total housing units in Plymouth would reflect single-family at 54.5% and
apartments at 30.8%. The balance of housing would be either attached or
mobile homes.
The final sheet indicates the land uses in those areas yet to receive the
extension of trunk utilities. I have grouped them by year through 1993 to
reflect the proposed Capital Improvement Program staging. Once trunk
facilities are extended to these areas, it is anticipated that they will
develop along the lines of the Land Use Guide Plan unless the plan is
amended. You will note that a substantial portion of the land use
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August 17, 1988
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contemplated open between 1990 and 1993 is in the LA -2 and LA -3 land use
categories. While single-family dwellings can be and are built in LA -2 and
LA -3 areas, one might as easily expect attached housing or other forms of
multiple housing to be built as well.
As I indicated last evening, I believe these data taken together should be
reviewed by the Council to determine whether or not the current Land Use
Guide Plan should be reviewed in terms of possibly reducing the guiding so
as to positively guide more traditional single-family development activity
in the years ahead. The 1989 budgets will contain my recommendations for
updating each of the comprehensive plan elements and it is therefore
appropriate that the Council begin to give consideration to whether or not
they are comfortable with the existing Land Use Guide Plan, or believe that
modifications should be studied.
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NOTE:
YEAR
1880
1940
1960
1970
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
Data based on Federal Census data and Metropolitan Council Estimates.
1,075
2,989
9,576
18,077
27,100
28,500
28,850
31,615
32,410
33,920
35,380
37,050
38,940
41;207
43,854
45,809
PROJECTED
1990
2000
49,000
58,000
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HOUSEHOLDS
8,956
9,551
11,039
11,2_22
11,476
11,975
12,987
14,246
14,895
16,275
17,325
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DWELLTNG UNITS - BY TYPE
Apartments - 1987 - 40 parcels
1988 - 48 parcels
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1/87 1/88 Charge
Single Family 109483 109992 509
Attached 2,831 2,882 51
Condominiums 11075 11092
Townhouses 19401 19496
Permalease 355 294
Apartments 31570 41023 453
Mobile Homes 67 67
16,951 179964 1,013
Apartments - 1987 - 40 parcels
1988 - 48 parcels
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SUB DIVISlOi S II: E F k K 1 L Y ATTk%HEC, H0USII;U"", NU`i - T IFn1:+i
PONDS NORTH 12L
HARRISON HILLS PONDS 90 3S 270
HARRISON HILLS 120
BASS LAKE ESTATES 20
LAKE CAMELOT ESTATES 130 80 300
TYRELL 80
FERNBROOK WOODS 40
KINGS NORTH 30
BASS LAKE HEIGHTS 4TH 15
MEADOWS OF BASS LAKE 25
PINE RIDGE OF BASS LAKE 25
DEERWOOD TRAIL 22
WILD WINGS 2ND 90
ZACHARY HEIGHTS 50
DEERWOOD GLEN PLAT 2 20
WOODLANDS 71
SAGAMORE 72
MISSION PUD 200
QUAIL RIDGE 100
VICKSBURG APTS 334
SHILO PINES 15
GLENDALOUGH GABLES 65 100
HERITAGE RIDGE 35
PARKERS LAKE NORTH 135 48 954
STONE HILL 224
HUMINGBIRD COVE 73
FOX RUN/STEEPLECHASE 130
COACHMAN TRAILS 78
CARLSON CENTER 20 30
WOOD POINTE/MISC 20
TOTALS 1092 381 2800
Pl OL l
POST 1993
NW 17 80 95 - - - 160 335
NW 19 - 60 - - 60 255 - 375
TOTAL 80 155 - - 6-U 255 — 160 710
GRAND TOTAL 375 525 555 - 240 375 245 2,315
NOTES
I. NW 23 The Amber Woods and Hughes Johnson plats, 60 acres, have been
deducted from this sewer district.
1. Public/Semi-private guiding includes the following parcel:
a. NW 23 Greenwood Elementary School.
b. NW 16) Assumed site (55 acres) for future Wayzata School(s).
Likely not needed following Plymouth Creek Elementary
c. NW 18) School site approved.
d. NW 17 Hollydale Golf Course, 160 acres.
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LAND USE DESIGNATION
AND AREA (ACRES)
SEWER PUBLIC
DISTRICT LAI LA2 LA3 LA4 COMM IP SEMI-PUBLIC TOTAL
1990
NC 7 5 40 40 85
NC 8 10 10 100 10 130
NC 9 40 90 130
NW 21 20 125 80 40 265
NW 22 40 90 130
NW 23 (1) 180 30 210
TOTAL 295 225 310 90 30 950
1992
NC 11 95 120 215
NW 16 30 70 20 5 125
TOTAL 30 165 20 120 5 340
1993
NW 18 80 40 60 50 230
NW 20 35 40 10 85
TOTAL f —15 80 70 50 315
1990-199.$
TOTALS 295 370 555 180 120 85 1,605
POST 1993
NW 17 80 95 - - - 160 335
NW 19 - 60 - - 60 255 - 375
TOTAL 80 155 - - 6-U 255 — 160 710
GRAND TOTAL 375 525 555 - 240 375 245 2,315
NOTES
I. NW 23 The Amber Woods and Hughes Johnson plats, 60 acres, have been
deducted from this sewer district.
1. Public/Semi-private guiding includes the following parcel:
a. NW 23 Greenwood Elementary School.
b. NW 16) Assumed site (55 acres) for future Wayzata School(s).
Likely not needed following Plymouth Creek Elementary
c. NW 18) School site approved.
d. NW 17 Hollydale Golf Course, 160 acres.
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SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION
August 16, 1988
Scanticon Conference Center
Present: Mayor Schneider, Councilmembers Sisk, Vasiliou, Zitur, and Ricker;
City staff - James G. Willis, Blair Tremere, Fred Moore, and Frank
Boyles
I. Definition of Planned Unit Development
Blair Tremere presented report including three problems and six poten-
tial solutions together with his recommendation.
Action: Wait to receive Development Council report on ground coverage
and take issue under advisement. Consensus is that there is a problem
among requirements for lot size, lot coverage, setback, open space.
Provide, as practice, a resolution denying and resolution approving if
staff and/or Planning Commission vary in position.
II. Reguiding LA -2 and LA -3 to LA -1 and LA -2
City Manager provided report on existing households by type, likelihood
of future type development, LA lands available for development through
1992 and what alternatives available to City Council to maintain exist-
ing single family, attached and multi ratio.
Staff to provide additional report including legal opinion and downsides
to proceeding in this direction. Planning Commission needs to review.
Next year's budget will include recommendations to update various
comprehensive plans.
III. City Council Agenda Format
Use actual practice and revise ordinance accordingly. Staff should try
to keep important items high on agenda. City Council should move items
up per their perspective prior to meeting. Identify these items at
previous meeting.
IV. Town Meetings
Council reduced town meeting areas from eight to four. Town meetings
will be conducted for each area every year, with meeting format remain-
ing same.
V. Telephone Comment Line
Publicize through Plymouth on Parade: 1) a one-time article including
purpose; and 2) banner on mailer.
Special City Council Study Session
August 16, 1988
Page 2
VI. Citizens Safety Committee
Snowmobiles - Find out number of snowmobiles registered in Plymouth for
contact.
Prepare Plymouth on Parade article on Lyme's Disease.
VII. 1989 Council Calendar
Have special meetings with departments as needed per advance agendas
prepared by City Manager and submitted to Council at least one week
prior to the meeting.
Meet with advisory commissions at least annually on mutually acceptable
dates.
Reserve one Monday in August (14th) as "open" for Council vacation
planning.