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t>-7 ORONO VILLAGE NARRATIVE Land Use Guide Plan Amendment Landform is requesting approval of a reguiding from Commercial to Urban Residential Medium Density (SFR/MFR) for approximately 7.22-acres and a reguiding from Urban Residential Medium Density to Commercial for 0.49-acres of this 51 -acre site. The requested reguiding to residential would allow us to rezone the property and construct the Lofts and rowhouses south of Kelley Parkway. The reguiding from Residential to Commercial is simply the result of Kelley Parkway being shifted north to line up with the existing curb cuts on Willow Drive. The Comprehensive Plan anticipates that everything south of Kelley Parkway will be developed as commercial, however, the street was shown only 300 feet north of Highway 12. Our proposed Kelley Parkway alignment is slightly north of the planned alignment, consequently, the Land Use Guide Plan map must be amended to show the new alignment and the additional commercial south of Kelley Parkway near Willow Drive. The property Is currently vacant, but has been the subject of a number of city discussions over the years. The property was recently reviewed as part of the City's recent Comprehensive Plan update. The City’s Plan identifies a general alignment for the planned Kelley Parkway and Identifies the property south of Kelley Parkway as Commercial and the property north of Kelley Parkway as Urban Residential Medium Density. The City has Indicated a desire for office uses on the commercial p.'irtion of this site and has suggested that this property be developed in a way that does not compete with the retail uses in downtown Long Lake. Our analysis shows that the area would not support the amount of office the City planned for the site; however, some retail commercial could be provided to serve this neighborhood and provide retail uses that are not planned or available in Long Lake. We are proposing to reduce the planned commercial area and limit the commercial uses to the southeast portion of the site. The requested reguiding would allow development of housing south of Kelley Parkway where commercial was originally planned and would allow additional commercial development south of the realigned Kelley Parkway as intended by the City. The reguiding from commercial to residential would allow development of Orono Village as a town center with a mix of housing types providing life-cycle housing opportunities for the community. The proposed reguiding would be compatible with the surrounding land uses. Furthermore, the mix of residential and commercial land uses would allow for the creatior; of a truly walkable community that would be an asset to the City of Orono and would complement the existing and planned development in the City of Long Lake. The building mass of the Lofts would be simitar to the mass of a commercial office building that could be-constructed under the existing land use plan. The loft residential planned in the southwest portion of the site would be three-story buildings and would generate less traffic than the permitted office use. 650 BUTLER NORTH BUILDING 510 FIRST AVENUE N OFFICE 61Z2S2 9070 FAX: 612.2S2.9077 ww«ir.iand(onn.n«t