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Page 7 Planning and Zoning August 8, 1979 The whole comprehensive plan process had been divided into 3.phases: Under phase 1, they want the existing land use plan updated, and are looking at urban service areas, environmentally sensitive areas, and so on. Under phase 2, the transportation plan .should use what is called a functional classification system, each community using the same system. Things looked at: Locations of bridges that accomodate bicyles and pedestrians, detailed traffic circulation plans around interchanges, the existing and proposed lend use in that area the exixting transit routes serving the area, etc. This could also address suggested routes for express buses. Included here were the unitary. sewer plan and storm drains, and parks and open spaces, under which Metro looks at how the City relates to Metro parks and open spaces, the land use adjacent to the regional parks, the City park plan and whether it coordinates with the regional parks, etc. Mr. McLean asked about the resulting situation if anything the City,,lcomitted itself to for Metro in the Comprehensive Plan were for one reason or another not carried through. Mr. Short indicated that realistically a plan would have changes, and that Metro recognized that. He also noted Metro had three priorities of cities in the region, and Lino Lakes was in the lowest priority area. In the third phase, under housing imple- mentation, Metro asked that a variety of types of housing be provided in the community for different income levels and that processes implementing that be taken --minimum lot sizes, zoning, etc. ,The biggest issue was whether low and middle income housing opportunities were being provided to builders to build a certain number of these units. Under the next item, official controls, they ask that the City describe or summarize zoning ordinance as to intent and standards in them. Mr. Short suggested the ordinances be included anyway. Metro also asked for recommendations for amending those: ordinances to reflect what was established in the land use plan. The last item was capital im- provements. As a result of transportation, sewer and parks plans, there will be recommendations that the City will have for improvements; an outlined 5- year projection plan on how the City intends to make those improvements should be included here. Mr. Short had drawn up a work program. Mr. Gourley, Mr. McLean, Mr. Gotwald and Mr. Short will meet and merge this with the P & Z lists for a new work program and schedule.,Mr. Doocey moved to adjourn at 11:25 p.m.; seconded by Mr. Johnson. All were in favor. Motion declared passed.