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� A SPECI AL MEETI NG OF THE ZONI NG AND PLANNI NG COP,AMI SSI ON OF THE C� TY OF HOPKI NS�
M� NNESOTA� WAS HELD ON TUESDAY� JANUARY 24� 1961 AT ?S30 P.M. � N THE C� TY HA��.
PRESENT WERE CHA� RMAN WEGLE� TNER� MEMBERS GUSTAFSON� MAYOR PERB� X� COUNC� LMAN
M� LBERT� COOLIOGE� C� TY MANAGER BRUBACHER ANO C� TY ENGINEER STROJAN. ALSO JIR4
HAWKES� PLANN) NG CONSULTANT� TOM BLUM AND JOSEPH VJR� GHT� REPRESENTATIVES FROM
� ST. LOUIS PARK� RUSSEIL AND KENNETH ZAKAR� ASEN� VIRGIL EDWAROS AND JOSEPH WALKER�
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE PURE 01L COMPANY.
A GENERAL DISCUSSION WAS HELD ON THE PROPOSEC HIGHWAY NO. 7 PLAN� SUBMITTED
JANUARY ( 6� 1961 . THE DISCUSSION WAS LED BY P�ANNING CONSULTANT� JIM HAWKES� WHO
REVIEWEO THE PREVIOUS H� GHWAY DEPARTMENT PROPOSq�S AND PRESENTED A PROPOSED RE�
A�I �PIMENT OF COUNTY ROAD N0. I8� ALONG BLAKE ROAD ANC ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART
OF ED� NA . THE INTERCHANGE SHOWN ON THE OAKS NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN WAS NOT LOOKED ON
FAVORABIY BY THE KNOLLWOOD SHOPPING CENTER AREA. THEY FAVOR THE PROPOSAL AS SHOWN
ON THE H16HWAY DEPARTMENT I /16/61 PLAN. TOM BLUM� PLANNING CIRECTOR FROM ST.
LOUIS PARK STATED THEIR VIEWS AND ICEAS .
MR, HAWKFS SUGGESTED THAT EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACEC ON H� GHWAY N0. 73� WITH A
POSSIBLE FULL DIAMOND � NTERCHANGE. HE THOUGHT THAT THE PROPOSAL OF I/16/61 , AT
5TH AVENUE WAS SAT� SFACTORY.
HIGHWAY NO. ( 69 HAS NOT BEEN AGREEC UPON FOR RELOCATION WHICH COULO AFFECT THE
HIGHWAY NO. 7 PLAN.
IT WAS SUGGESTED BY MAYOR PERBIX THAT MR . HAWKES PREPARE AN OVERAI.L PROPOSAL BEFORE
� ANY C ONTACT IS MACE WITH THE STATE� COUNTY OR OTHER CITIES . AlSO� THAT THE GREAT
NORTHERN RA1lROAD BE C ONTACTEO IN REGARD TO ABANDONING THEIR SPUR � NTO HOPKJNS.
COOLIDGE MOVEO� GUSTAFSON SECONDED� THAT THE MEETING BE ADJOURNED. CARRIED,
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