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Lino Lakes staff expressed concern over the estimated acreage of buildable MUSA presented by the Metropolitan Council. Existing development patterns in the City suggested that the supply of land available for development was significantly less than the Metropolitan Council estimate. To attain an accurate inventory of land available for development, the City mapped the existing MUSA on a section by section basis to allow for a detailed visual tabulation of the gross MUSA, as well as a net buildable MUSA available for residential development. The gross MUSA was tabulated using a planimeter over the 1990 MUSA boundary map. The detailed tabulation of net buildable land used the following methodology: Step #1: The City produced 200 scale aerial photographic base maps that were overlaid by same scale mylar section map and acetate National Wetland Inventory (NWI) maps. These maps provide a section by section base data of land use, and NWI wetlands at a scaled dimension. Step #2: Once a base map for each section of the City was created, the City delineated the MUSA boundaries, non- residential zoning districts, and the County park land. Step #3: At Step 3, the buildable vacant land available for residential development could be determined as of year end 1993. Land considered for development was upland area of residentially zoned parcels with a contiguous area of 5 acres or more. Lands included in previous approved final plats was not considered available: The buildable land was shaded in yellow to allow for measurement. The limiting boundaries of the wetlands were the more restrictive combination of the NWI and the 1977 wetland delineation on the section map. All land areas were calculated on a section by section basis using a planimeter. The results of the City efforts are illustrated in Table F. METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING AVAILABLE RESIDENTIAL BUILDABLE MUSA - Available Acres Shaded. - MUSA, County Park, and Zoning Boundaries. - 200 Scale Section Base Map. - Aerial Photography Map.