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Ronald Moorse February 9, 1995 Page 3 groundwater and surface water and ultimately the impact on the metropolitan wastewater treatment and handling s>’stem if on-site s>-stems fail. The city’s density policy exceeds the Council ’s policy for the rural service area of one unit per 10 acres or no more than 64 units per 640-acre section. The current density policy is too low to support the efficient extension of urban yir services. If on-site systems fail at these densities, the cost of extending services would be prohibitive for homeowners and the city. ^ ^ I *- ------- _ • Given the city’s development policies and th^recent pattern of on-site failures, the city should review its development and wastewater handling policies for the area outside the MUSA. This can best be done as part of a process of reviewing and updating the city’s coii'prchensive plan. In addition, the city must determine the impact of future growth on the metropolitan highway system. The metropolitan transportation policy plan calls for all cities to provide local arterial highways to accomc^ate short and medium Icnth trips which will not be served by the metropolitan system. (TH12 has been designated a metropolitan highway.) If there is not adequate capacity on either the regional or local sy’stem than improvements must be made to accomodate future growth. This issue should also be addressed as part of the city’s comprehensive plan update. In September of 1994, the Council adopted the Reponal Blueprint. The Blueprint states that the Council will work with local communities in a partnership to meet the range of life-cycle housing ^ needs of people and broaden locational choice and access for people of all income levels. The staff would like to discuss these needs with the city and a potential partnership to implement this action. Based on our records, the city’s comprehensive plan has not been updated since the early 1980s. We realize it will take some time to complete this work. The city should include a reasonable _ / schedule with i>s . .uposed MUSA additions for updating the land use, transportation, sewer and housing elements of its comprehensive plan and submitting these to the Council for review. If there aivi questions regarding this letter, please contact Carl Schenk (291-6410). Yours truly, Chuck Ballentine, Director Office of Local Assistance % cc: Mary H. Smith, Metropolitan Council Member District 3 Carl Schenk, Council Staff Mike Gaffron, Assistant City Planner