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^^Metropolitan Council <br />mA Improve regional competitiveness (n a globed economy <br />){i 1 y?- /c o- <br />Intemat Memorandum <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />April 20.2001 <br />Linda Milashius <br />Guy Peterson <br />SUBJECT: Orono Comprehensive Plan - Housing Element <br />Orono is a unique situation because although they have been LCA participants since 1<W5, they never <br />negotiated qjecific numerical goals with the Council. <br />However, now when we find ourselves implementing the LPA and needing to use the benchmarks in our <br />LCA goal-setting system to tell Orono the numbers we need to see in their plan which essentially deal <br />with land availability and permitted densities of development <br />Given the seweted-household growth numben jn the plan, it looks like the plan is saying Orono will <br />grow by 409 households between 2000 and 2010. According to the benchmarks for cities in the <br />Southwest of Minneapolis Planning Sector, Orono should at a minimum have'/«of these units be rental, <br />and 60 percent of the ownership units be affordable. <br />We all know that this will not happen given land costs; however, it doesn ’t give the city license to then <br />go ahead with all low*deiuity development My calculations show that we should see future residential <br />land uses in Orono that would do the following: <br />> Identify7to 10 acres ofland on which rental housing could be built from I Sunils per acre, down to <br />10 units per acre if 10 such acres are available. <br />> Identify 30 acres of land where medium density residential develop; ent may occur at at least six <br />units per acre. <br />I don ’t think the plan as submitted does this, and I would be happy to work with city staff to try to <br />resolve these issues.