09-14-2009 Council Work Session Packet

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Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant City Administrator August 12, 2009 Page 3 Advisory comments: • The City describes a year 2030 "expanded MUSA alternative" in the Comprehensive Sewer Plan. If the City pursues this "expanded MUSA alternative," a Tier II sewer agreement and a Plan Amendment would be required. In that situation, the Council would require a plan to achieve 3 units/net acre, average, in the "expanded MUSA." Year 2030 total forecasts could be increased as a result. • The Update forecasts are segmented by urbanized area and rural area(for exarnple, Table 3B-1). The Council's sanitary sewered and unsewered forecasts differ from the City's urbanized and rural forecasts. HOUSING (Linda Milashius, 651-602-1541) The Update is incomplete for Housing. The Update does acknowledge the City's share of the region's affordable housing need for 2011-2020—311 units, and cites the City's official controls and implementation programs it will use to assist in the development of affordable housing. However, to be complete, the Update needs to include a breakout of the amount of land that will be available for residential development or redevelopment during the 2011- 2020 timeframe, along with the proposed land use designations and density ranges. LAND USE (Lisa Barajas, 6�1-602-1895) The Update is incomplete for Land Use. The following items need to be addressed before the Update will be considered complete for land use and density. The Update needs to show how the community plans to accommodate forecasted growth in its population, households, and employment. Land Use Categories The Update needs to describe the allowable uses for each of the land use categories shown on Map 3B-6 and needs to use planned land use categories consistently throughout the document. The Update describes urban land uses starting on page 3B-32 but these categories do not align with those shown on Map 3B-6. Other "non-urban" land uses shown on the map do not match the descriptions starting on page 3B-45. Future land use tables, maps, and description te�t need to all use the same land use categories. For all land use categories that allow residential uses, the Update needs to detail the allowable density ranges, including minimum density and maximum density. The Update currently only describes minimum lot sizes, which equates to a maximum density. The Council calculates the community's capacity to accommodate residential growth by multiplying the lowest allowed density in the planned land use density range by the net residential acreage. The Update needs to use a number other than "zero" as a lowest allowed density for sanitary sewered development In addition, the City needs to ensure that new residential development served by regional sanitary sewer achieves an overall minimum net density of 3.0 units per acre. Failure to achieve this density may be considered a system departure. The Update contains an Existing Land Use Map (Map 3B-5) and a table detailing acreages