HomeMy WebLinkAbout20230206 - CC Workshop MinutesHastings, Minnesota
City Council Workshop
February 6, 2023
The City Council of the City of Hastings, Minnesota met in a workshop on Monday,
February 6, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. in the Volunteer Room at the Hastings City Hall, 101 East 4th
Street, Hastings, Minnesota.
Members Present: Mayor Fasbender, Councilmembers Folch, Fox, Haus, Leifeld, Pemble
Members Absent: Lund
Staff Present: City Administrator Dan Wietecha
City Attorney Kori Land
Assistant City Administrator Kelly Murtaugh
Community Development Director John Hinzman
Mayor Fasbender called the workshop to order at 5:03 pm., welcoming Council members and
City Attorney Kori Land. Land continued the Elected Officials 101 training that was started in
January. Land is presenting to the Council on municipal planning and rental licensing. Land
provided an overview of municipal planning by reviewing the statutory foundations and goals for
municipal planning. She then reviewed the guides for municipal planning: comprehensive plan
and land use map, zoning map and zoning ordinance, subdivision regulations. She then discussed
various uses of property like, permitted use, conditional use permit, and interim use permits.
Land then presented on circumstances for variance. Land reviewed Council role in findings of
fact in planning-related applications. She then presented on adding reasonable conditions to a
permit or variance as well as violations of planning approvals.
Land reviewed the purpose of the rental license and the owner’s responsibility in maintaining a
rental license, with Council discussion on a rental license program. Council agreed that staff
meet first to discuss how a rental license program might be implemented, and then bring back to
Council for further discussion.
Council thanked Kori for her presentations.
The workshop adjourned at 6:40 pm.
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Mary D. Fasbender, Mayor Kelly Murtaugh, City Clerk