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) I The applicant has provided site plans for both properties. A commercial site plan review for the office and senior housing._properties and buildings will include a full review of the following items: 1) Landscaping 2) Traffic Flow/Road System 3) Parking Arrangement 4) Building Height/Setbacks 5) Review of Architectural Materials/Building Design 6) Lighting 7) Screening 8) Other I. Preliminary Subdivision/Rezoning/Comprehensive Plan Amendment Uses within the PUD may include only those uses designated by the official Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The 1989 Comprehensive Plan Amendment had guided the property for commercial use. The Comprehensive Plan (CMP) as preliminarily approved by the City Council in September designated several Orono properties as areas that would allow medium density. The density proposed in the CMP does not have an existing zoning district that would allow the types of housing that would be offered by as proposed in this application. The proposed CMP did not include this property as a residential site. In fact it has been guided for commercial use as was the case with 1989 CMP amendment. The entire property has been zoned B-1 since at least 1967, perhaps earlier. To rezone the east property would require changing the land use designation to residential. The 70 unit building on the 4 acre site would provide 17.5 units/acre of senior housing units at a variety of unit sizes and rental rates. The proposed RPUD zoning district would be the appropriate zoning district to provide the units/acre density requested. Section 10.33, Subdivision 5(E) in the proposed RPUD district would allow the City of Orono to provide incentives to encourage projects which are consistent with housing goals. "Incentives may include modification of density and floor area ratio requirements for developments providing lifecycle housing and low and moderate cost housing." The City has the ability to ensure the housing need, for lifecycle housing, is met. The RPUD district would rely heavily on the CMP designation for housing density and the ability of the developer to meet the housing needs of the community. The office use would not require a CMP amendment as the underlying land use designation is for commercial use. The property is proposed as a 2.7 acre site. The use of the property as office/clinic would be permitted under the B-6 district should the Council approve an amendment to the permitted uses in the B-6 district to permit clinic uses. Platting Process This review is at the preliminary plat stage. A complete review of the preliminary plat will require review and approval of the proposed site plans. The plat would result in two lots. Lot 1 (west property)= 116,832 s.f. or± 2.7 acres Lot 2 (east property) = 173,871 s.f. or±4.0 acres Orono Amber,LLC. 2060 Wayzata Boulevard #2640/#2641 Page 2