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Criteria for Increasing the Size of an Urban Service Area The Council will consider requests from local units for expansion to the urban service area. These requests will be considered together for their impact on the region as a whole, metropolitan systems, regional policy objectives and other units of govemment. Each request, submitted in the form of a comprehensive plan amendment, will be evaluated at both the local level and at a subregional level, as appropriate, and must satisfy the following criteria: 1.Forecasfs and Urban Land Demand. Is there demonstrated urban land need. The Council first reassesses land supply and demand based on current Council forecasts and a comparison of figures provided by the local governmental unit. The Council will analyze the local community's request in terms of the urban land supply/ demand in the pertinent regional data sector(s), cluster planning area, the sewer interceptor and treatment plant service area, and transportation corridor area to ensure a five-year overage. if the land supply is below or within three years of the five-year overage and regional facilities (transportation and sewer) are adequate, the Council will consider a service area expansion: in no case will land in a rural service area community be added to the MUSA for a net increase of serviced land unless there is a shortage of land suitable for development in the urban service area communities within the pertinent data sector(s). 2. Transportation and Sewer Service. Metropolitan transportation and sewer services must be in place or planned for implementation concurrent with the development proposed in the request. Analysis of transportation system impacts will include those communities or areas that are within the same regional transportation (highway or transit) corridor(s) or service area(s). Adequate capacity in the metropolitan sewer (treatment plant and interceptor) and highway systems must be available to serve any new development. Analysis of sewer service capacity will include those communities that are within the same service area of the wastewater treatment interceptor or treatment plant. 3.Staging. As communities seek to provide urban services to areas which are not currently urbanized, the communities must specify in five year urbanization areas, the timing and sequence of major local public facilities in the capital improvement program and also the official controls which will ensure that urbanization occurs only in designated urbanization areas and in accordance with the plan. 4.Rural Area Policy. Areas of the community not receiving urban services must be consistent with the Council's rural area policy for land uses and protection of prime agricultural land. 5.Local Comprehensive Sewer Plan. The focal government must have an up-to-date comprehensive sewer plan, including on-site sewer management. 6.Local Transportation Plan. The local government must have an up-to-date transportation plan. 7.Local Assessment Practices. The local government has assessment practices that limit creation of vested development rights. In addition, the request must also address how the community has and intends to address the following regional issues: 1.Housing Diversity. Local implementation of strategies and actions that allow for a variety of housing types and prices for current and future residents including building mixed-use or infill development and increasing density in residential development. 2.Environmenfal Resources. Use of environmental factors to guide urban development, concentrating development in areas environmentally suited for development. and 3. Shared Services. Local plans for service cooperation or consolidation and cost savings as well as the governmental unit's place and role the broader cluster context including relationship to school districts. 3