Minutes of Evansville-Union Joint Planning Meeting

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City of Evansville - Town of Union

Conflict Resolution Teams Meeting Minutes

October 20, 2005; Evansville City Hall

Call the meeting to order @ 6:00 PM.
Roll Call: Ald. Hammann (Co-chair), Kim Gruebling (Co-chair), Supervisor Don Krajeck, & Kelly Gildner. Absent: Bob James & Chris Eager. Quorum attained.
Minutes of August meeting unanimously approved on a Hammann-Gildner motion.
Citizen appearances – None
Discussion of draft boundary agreement between City of Evansville and Town of Union.
Ald. Hammann passed out a copy of the Intermunicipal cooperation agreement between the city of Watertown and the town of Emmet as an illustration of boundary agreement. The following items were discussed:

Joint Land Use & Transportation Plan – After Union completes it’s Smart Growth plan in the spring, then Evansville & Union will combine each plan into a single set of maps for both communities.
Annexations – The town will not oppose annexations of land within the city growth areas.
Development with city growth areas – Design standards according to smart growth checklists.
Development with town growth areas - The City waives its extraterritorial jurisdiction within the town growth areas.
Intergovernmental Cooperation – joint requests such as Stormwater management, roadways & Blighted areas.
Revenue Sharing
Dispute Resolution
Evansville’s plan commission & Union’s planners will review this document and any necessary changes while both teams wait for Union’s Smart Growth to be completed.

Discussion of City of Evansville’s future land use map, including whether the map should be revised in light of a possible rural residential subdivision development north of Evansville Country Club golf course in the Town of Union.
This development is located outside of the City of Evansville’s future land use map growth area.

Preliminary discussion of Union growth plans.

New business
CTH M speed limit - Union is supportive of reducing the speed limit on both sides of CTH M approaching Hwy. 14 intersection. Evansville’s engineer will provide Union's Town supervisor Kendall Schneider to provide the details of where the speed limit should be reduced and by how much.
Evansville’s Large Scale Commercial Development Committee requested a representative from Union. Kelly Gildner agreed to be the Union Township representative
Changed name of the team to City of Evansville - Town of Union Smart Growth Implementation committee unanimously approved on a Gruebling-Hammann motion.
Changed meeting location to Evansville City Hall old council chambers unanimously approved on a Gruebling-Hammann motion.
Meeting adjourned @ 7:15 p.m.
Next Meeting: December 15 at 6:00 p.m.

Bill Hammann; Evansville, Adlerperson, Co-chairman of City of Evansville - Town of Union Smart Growth Implementation committee