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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. FB:kec attachment 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. FB:kec attachment 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 0 1 5 6 9 10 12 3 14 8 9 7 13 0 12 3 11 CURRENT 10 TOWN MEETING AREAS 4.610 Appoinment Districts Plymouth Advisory Commissions f; w P CITY OF SCALE OF MILES ail - INT - fillY HlF3:S- 3Bci :_ <[€: 8!'BsiB:_.. •_ : aQa.€. =:.r i3, __s11I36. STREET MAP CITY OF PLYMOUTH 3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447 TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800 MEMO DATE: July 27, 1988 TO: James G. Willis, City Manager 1 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. FB:kec attachment 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 n / 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 Page 2 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. HL:kec 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. attachments 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 Page two 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 Page 2 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. FB:kec attachment 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: er 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 wa .o 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 ,. Egli 29i.gEBa8 ggtaa BQ 4l lill STREET MAP 1987 MOTOR VEHICLE VS. ANIMAL INCIDENTS VFc ) 1 OI SCALE OF MILES PLYMOUTH- S Q y5=Fr3p 0 rIt111 eif 11,1, 1111 g 111' €1111 i t ii i'sHHUifxarltlig ,e STREET MAP 7 ` 1988 1/1/88 -7/22/88) MOTOR VEHICLE VS. ANIMAL INCIDENTS CTaYrITYQ + SCALE OF MILES WYMOUTF+ s a. I I 11M I of i fill Mill HPIM11111111111 11111111m 11111111111 mm H i IM M HIM 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 $325.00, made payable to Hennepin Parks, to Pat Sheetz, Hennepin Parks, 12615 County Road 9, P. 0. Box 41320, Plymouth, MN 55441. I hope this letter can serve as an invoice. Let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, L. N. Gillette Wildlife Manager LNG:ab Enclosures 527 f ' J" tiLy e ,y tiw.$YF IRS AG Z INE STAR TRIWNE P ly i2, 1988 Tj l\ Tttackf th- e' T:rO7--% ESDA1mviV1, NiT- 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- , iAw + G Lyme continued on page 10 r FACTOR Lyme continued from page 9 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 Lyme continued on page 12 Lyme 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. From a' National Park Service brochure 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. 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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 t n p j` w/31 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 By s ring, 1987, she said, feeling Out of Control, Very P c', r Foreirra:afety,NeutrogenaMoisurreconrain>an agitated, and I couldn't sit "I thought I was heading for i a= SPFS ur Gree,t. still for a second, and the only full-time use of the wheel- A ` time I was out was when I chair." '`,"I'mdelighted thatNeutrorenaMoistureis Thenldok the belouttfor five hours, Schrock on televiscine. Then one ion talking fragrance- free.-joi,1A.,r mp,,A7 and then I'd just snap to, about Epstein-Barr syn- ^k`s``f It has improved m}skin trcrncndously wide awake, and my mind drome. Site hadn't heard of , v s Do you also make a nigh cream. wexild be consumed with sui- that before, and her focus w ` Vi,ginrsAl.,Acm nburg,NY ucidalthoughts. They domi- shifted. She called ,tier neu- ' nated me, really. It was cold rologist, Dr. John Witik of -.eunr gx.vi htCrra,nis,:ow- outside,;and Ithought if Bloomutgcm, and he suggest- D4 at your drugsrore,alongurrh Neutrogena went out far enough in the ed tests for both Epstein-Barr_ Aloisture'muiNeraroge ,•FiyeCream park 1 could freeze to death, and Lyme disease, and when' Forsamples,see specialgferhelout and no one would find me. she told himshe'd already ._ I was like a caged animal. been tested for Lyme she a The kids kept trying to hug learned for the first time the me, and I couldn't respond, test had never been run. - - _ ." _ - - - - - - - - -" and in my mind I thought "That got my hopes up," S1 50 Frce thele WflS nothing they could y y aiue. ust send front carton and from Ncutrn tua Moistua sites rece i "Id thu <om l,ted Facial 1 ' LLshesaid. Ma it reap was mraGcttc to. Neutrogena Motstuuranfi Kit, BC, Box 4162M, Monacetlo, h1N 55365-4116LM l lk)iswriz1ing KIt. do for me.` It was the clay after Lvme.' whh wrch,x nfr umt ogrnu Moxsa,re. Easter. hook the bottle of Sherliad_just..zeadwabnuty_a Nit pills that afternoon. Kim got woman in Plymouth, Sandra t home about 7 and found me Weinzr rl whose sytnptorns _ 8 M socked out and knew some- were f1 M"atehs. Fven her incl dia - tsaryi'"'r'x2— ,ethingWasiigtlg. .... r o'G nir 1 ° f " SA. Void 1 k oKibi r o1, ah —toad, Cn Wii< mo aty 1x vuufarxf, t,n rex- Next thing, Linda was in 'es were siiirdar I +oe,,.,ia.,rt>d.t s .«kr aynt me. c<r s t;,K„t;i,i,sA. w" CITY OF PLYMOUTH 3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447 TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800 MEMO DATE: August 15, 1988 TO: James G. Willis, City Manager i 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. FB:kec 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 8/88) MONDAY BUDGET HOLIDAY STUDY SESSIONS 2, 16 20 -- 29 22 object. 4 59 11, 25 9 Yom Kippur --- W 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 r 0 \ 00\' CITY OF PLYMOUTH 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 J 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 0 - LAND USE AND POPULATION DATA August 17, 1988 Page 2 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. OW:kec 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 demos(pop)8/3/88 HOUSEHOLDS 8,956 9,551 11,039 11,2_22 11,476 11,975 12,987 14,246 14,895 16,275 17,325 J 8/9/88 DWELLTNG UNITS - BY TYPE Apartments - 1987 - 40 parcels 1988 - 48 parcels jw(8/88dwell)l 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 jw(8/88dwell)l 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. fw(8/881andus)1 r 8/9/88 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. fw(8/881andus)1 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.