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To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Subject: <br />Chair Smith and Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. GafTron, Planning Director <br />February 13,2003 <br />#03-2873 Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment - MUSA Boundary <br />List of Exhibits PC, <br />A - Notice of Public Hearing ' ^ <br />B - Map: Existing MUSA & Proposed MUSA Additions ^ <br />C - Memo and Exhibits of January 9,2003 <br />D - City Engineer Preliminary Cost Estimate <br />E - City Council Minutes 1-13-03 ,o <br />Background <br />The City Council has directed that staff proceed to make an application to Met Council for expansion <br />of the MUSA (Metropolitan Urban Service Area) to include a small number of properties along Old <br />Long Lake Road situated just west of the Wayzata Country Club, between the Luce Line Trail and <br />the Wood Rill Scientific & Natural Area. The MUSA defines those portions of the Metro Area <br />where development is allowed to occur with municipal sewer rather than with septic systems. <br />The initial intent was to provide the potential to serve the vacant parcel at 645 Old Long Lake Road <br />and developed parcels adjacent to it. The area proposed to be included in the MUSA has now been <br />slightly expanded by staff to include those properties abutting Old Long Lake Road which could <br />potentially connect to the sewer line if one is constructed. <br />Please review the staff memo of January 9 for more information on the property at 645 Old Long <br />Lake Road. Also review the January 13 Council minutes for a stnse of the Council’s direction <br />Process <br />The public hearing is the first step in the process for completing a Comprehensive Plan amendment <br />to revise the MUS.^. Once Planning Commission has completed the Public Hearing end <br />recommended approval, a Resolution will be presented to the City Council for conditional adoption <br />of the amendment subject to Met Council approval. The proposed amendment will be submitted to <br />the Met Council on their standard forms with supporting information, and also submitted to adjacent <br />municipalities for comment. Once Met Council has approved the amendment, the City can formally <br />adopt it by resolution. Aller the amendment takes effect, actual construction of sewers and the <br />assessments for same are topics primarily dealt with by the Council with no further Planning <br />Commission action required. Preliminary discussions with Met Council staff indicate because the <br />area of the amendment is less than 40 acres, and because there are no impacts to metro systems, the <br />amendment will likely be considered as minor and timely approval would be expected.