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Hastings staff present draft comprehensive plan; council gives nonbinding consensus to proceed
Summary
Chad Binger, Hastings Director of Development Services, and Mason Herman of Marvin Planning Consultants presented a draft comprehensive plan that raises residential-density allowances, sets an annexation policy and outlines a public-review timeline; council gave a nonbinding straw consensus to send the draft to stakeholders and the planning commission.
Chad Binger, Director of Development Services for the City of Hastings, presented a draft comprehensive plan to the City Council and introduced Mason Herman of Marvin Planning Consultants, who walked the council through the plan's purpose, land-use framework and implementation steps. "We've been coming here to these meetings, working on this plan, I'd say, you know, coming up on year 3," Mason said.
Binger and Herman said the plan is intended to act as a "picture in time" to help the city make decisions, to align zoning and annexation policies with projected growth, and to qualify Hastings for some state and federal grant programs that require a recent plan. The draft calls for more residential density in targeted…
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