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amendment to modify the map for the northwestern 10 acres from Stage 3 (post 2030 service area) to the Stage 1B service area. When considering changes to the land use and utility staging area maps, the Comprehensive Plan directs the City to consider the following criteria: a. The proposed development must be located within both the current and the next ten year staging area, or five-year phase, or located adjacent to the current staging area. The bulk of the 372.24 acre development is classified as Mixed Use and is in either the Stage IA or IB planned service area. The requested amendment is simply to incorporate the northeastern 10 acres in to the project by reclassifying it as Mixed Use in the Stage IB service area like the other adjacent land in the Watermarkproject. Adding this site to the project is consistent with the purpose of the Mixed Use classification, which is intended "to accommodate a mix of residential, retail, and office uses either within one building, structure or development. Residential development may include higher density housing options. " b. The proposed development must be master planned. Small, piecemeal developments do not justify redefining the ten-year staging area, or five-year phase. This reclassification will allow this 10-acre parcel to be master planned with the other 372 acres of the Watermark project. c. The proposed, master planned project must provide discernable public values. The Watermark project is a master planned, mixed residential project that will help meet the City's lifecycle housing goals by providing housing choices for residents in Lino Lakes with 706 single family homes and 165 townhomes. The project meets several other discernable public values in addition to the lifecycle housing goals, by meeting the stated goals of land use policy #5 in the Comprehensive Plan which notes that public values include: i. Preserving open space, providing park dedication and trails, and/or providing stormwater management areas, in excess of minimum standards to implement the Resource Management System Plan, as amended, and Rice Creek Watershed District's Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan, as amended ii. Using "Green" building and low impact development techniques iii. Restoring/enhancing ecological systems iv. Ensuring long term natural resource stewardship funding V. Managing stormwater using natural filtration and other ecologically based approaches A. Providing life -cycle and affordable housing vii. Diversifying the tax base to lessen the tax burden on residential properties 25