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1. The City Charter allows City residents to refuse special assessments for infrastructure improvements until such time as they made connection to the utility. Additionally, the Charter restricts the use of general funds in the use of infrastructure projects. The result of the Charter is that it prohibits the City from installing utilities in areas of unsewered lots unless they are petitioned for by the neighborhood and residents agreed to accept the special assessments. 2. Multiple property ownership, in conjunction with the City Charter complicates land assembly, prohibiting the creation of a single parcel large enough to create the critical masses to accommodate a privately financed project. Table K compares the Lino Lakes projected residential land demand through the year 2000 with its existing supply to identify the necessary MUSA expansion acreage. TABLE K MUSA EXPANSION ACREAGE Growth Year Parameter 2000 Demand Existing Supply Proposed MUSA Unit Per Year With Overage of Buildable MUSA Expansion Acreage 200 714 - 444 270 250 892 - 444 448 300 1,071 444 627 LAND BANK The current discrepancies between the Metropolitan Council's and Lino Lakes' estimate of buildable vacant MUSA is attributed in part to the way MUSA has been applied to land areas in the past. The blanket application of MUSA to anticipated growth areas has not provided for an accurate accounting of buildable land within the MUSA. As a result, some of the development potential assumed within a MUSA designation is far less than actually exists. This is particularly constraining in Lino Lakes due to the following local conditions: Buildable Land In January 1995, the City estimated that of the 21,365 acres within the corporate boundaries of Lino Lakes, only 45 percent or 9,695' acres are considered developable due to regional park, interstate highways, and environmental constraints inherent in the City. This has reduced the supply of buildable land in the Lino Lakes MUSA and reduced the development densities City-wide. Development proposals 19