HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff report - comp plan workshop June2010
Meeting Date
June 22, 2010
Agenda Item
Workshop
Title
Comprehensive Plan Implementation Workshop
Submitted By
Deb Jones, Staff Liaison
Description
Staff will introduce new recommendations for minor text revisions of the 2008 comprehensive plan to provide more flexibility and simplify updating of the city’s zoning code
Background
Due to staffing and budget realities, an extensive revisions of the city’s zoning code and the Larpenteur corridor study cannot be undertaken on the timetable anticipated in the comp
plan. However, the properties identified as redevelopment candidates need to be rezoned now because redevelopment could be propesed at any time for properties identified as future multi-family/mixed
use sites.
The simplest option is to make some minor text amendments to the comp plan, according to the city attorney. The amendment would provide for the identified properties to be “dually guided”
– maintaining the existing use until redevelopment and then changing to the multi-family/mixed future use. They can then be rezoned as needed and developed as PUDs. In order to take
this route, the comp plan has to be amended to say that this is what we are doing. Staff has drafted text changes for the comp plan and created a draft map.
If the commission agrees with this strategy, staff recommends that we proceed as soon as possible and hold a public hearing as soon as July. Work on the zoning code updates will continue
during the amendment process but should be considerably simplified from what was anticipated at the beginning of the year.
Budget Impact
None
Attachment(s)
Draft of proposed text changes for the 2008 comprehensive plan
Draft of new land use (zoning) map
Action(s) Requested
Discuss and provide input. Revise timetable for implementation.