12-19-2008 Council Work Session Packet

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, 850 Wayzata Boufevard December S,2008 Page 3 In order for such a density transfer to work, the two properties would have to average at least 3.0 units per acre. Your property is about 4.6 acres exclusive of wetland,which would translate tfl 14 units at 3 units per acre. To bring your property into the MUSA at the current guided density of 1 dwelling unit per 2 acres(i.e, 0.5 units per acre}we would have to re-guide some other property to a higher density. For exarnple, if a 6-acre parcel was re-guided to S units per acre at some other location in the City,the math works out as follows: 850 VJayzata Blvd: 4.6 acres x 0.5 units per acre=2 units Some other site: 6.0 acres x 5.0 units per acre= 30 units T�tals: 32 units on 10.6 acres =3.02 units per acre average Because the site across from you at 875 Wayzata Boulevard is suddenly being proposed for higher density,it might be a possibilit��to be part of a density transfer. That site is about 6.S acres dry tand on which as many as 46 units rnay be proposed,i.e. a density of 7.1 units per acre. Doing the same math yields: 850 Wayzata Blvd: 4.6 acres x 0.5 units per acre— 2 units 875 Wayzata Blvd: 6.5 acres x 7.1 units per acre= 46 units Totals: 48 units on 11.1 acres —4.32 units per acre average In order for this density transfer to work out,the City would likely be expected to commit to similar densities for 875 Wayzata Boulevard even if the assisted Iiving project were to fall through for some reason. The City Council might not be as receptive to some other project at that site. In other words,the City takes some risks in doing this type of density transfer dea1. Use of 875 for a density iransfer for your pxoperty has not yet been discussed by the Council. At any rate, final approval for such a plan would likely not be approved by the Metropolitan Council until late in 2009. I will keep you informed as this progresses. In the meantime,we are plamung to add your property to the MUSA as part of our Comp Plan Update that will be going flut to Met Council for review in late suinmer,with the expectation that unless one of the four options occurs, it will likely be denied. We are also likely to be processing a Comp Plan Amendment for 875 Wayzata Boulevard in January and would review the pros and cons of a density transfer as part of that process. As a neighboring property owner, you wili receive notification of the public hearing for that amendment. 2. Sewer Connection Desi�n Factors. If we are ultimately successful in adding your property to the MUSA, that would allow the extension of sewer service to your property. The tuning,routing, design and costs of that sewer connection are dependent on a number of factors, a few of which include: - whether(and when)the properry at 875 Wayzata Boulevard develops... - whether 875 Wayzata Boulevard connects to the Lon�Lake sewer system or to the Wayzata system...