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Mattamy Homes Limited Minneapolis Division and a blend of residents at different points in their life. To design a neighborhood this size with two or three different products would create too much "sameness". Relationship to Comprehensive Plan Land Use. The City's Comprehensive Land Use Plan shows the property designation as Mixed Use. Within this designation, there was allowed up to be 20% commercial with the residential land allowed to have 4.5 du/net acre with no more than 2/3 of the residential area being 3.0 du/acre or less. Watermark has a net density of 3.45 du/acre. If all the stormwater ponds, parks, open space, screening and wetland (natural and mitigation) areas were removed, a gross density of 2.38 du/acre is achieved. The proposal falls well below what is allowed under the Comprehensive Plan and significantly below the previous proposed Hardwood Creek. Environment. Contained within the City's Comprehensive Plan is a Resource Management Plan; this was a joint effort between the City and the RCWD. Incorporated into this was a system of trail corridors, wetland corridors, stormwater facilities and neighborhood parks. Watermark incorporates all these concepts into its design. The RCWD has removed its WMC designation from the site in order to allow greater creativity and flexibility in design of the open space/stormwater/trail corridor concepts. At this point in the design of the neighborhood, the details of all these facilities remain to be decided but Mattamy has provided a generous land use framework within which to accomplish the intent of the RMP. Parks. The Comprehensive Plan contemplates a 5 acre neighborhood park integrated into an open space system that will contain trails/sidewalks that go throughout the neighborhood as well as continue north and west as indicated in the Comprehensive Plan. Mattamy has designed its stormwater and open space system allowing for a trail system throughout the development, connecting with a new trail along CR 54, pedestrian connections to the commercial areas to the south and the proposed open space system connecting this site to Peltier Lake. Some time ago, a concept plan was done for the central neighborhood park. Since that time, changes to the neighborhood plan has required modifications to previously approved plan. Mattamy and the City are working on these revisions. The townhouse portion of the community will have a private park/playground to serve the residents of the townhouse neighborhood. A small private neighborhood park will also be included in northeast corner of the site to serve the neighborhood in this area. Both these parks will be maintained by the Homeowners Association.