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3 <br />utility service. However, the Metropolitan Council’s formulas for calculating compliance with <br />regional density policies would penalize the city for including these existing neighborhoods <br />unless there is current documentation of SSTS failures. Therefore, case-by-case plan <br />amendments will be necessary before service can be extended to these existing neighborhoods. <br />1. The City will create a fully integrated Comprehensive Plan and keep it up to date with <br />biannual reviews. The City will perform an intensive review at least once every five years to <br />ensure the plan addresses changing needs and conditions. <br />The need for a Comprehensive Plan amendment to provide municipal services has been <br />petitioned by the residents. The amendment will allow utilities to be provided to replace failing <br />septic systems and wells. <br />2. The Comprehensive Plan will include a staging plan defining development staging areas sized <br />to accommodate forecasted growth. <br />The proposed amendment to the staging plan will allow the land to be brought into the current <br />staging plan phase. The adjacent areas to the north, south and east are all in the current staging <br />area. <br />3. The City will monitor the ten-year staging areas and annually determine if adequate land <br />remains available. <br />The City is comfortable that with the proposed amendment adequate land remain available in <br />the staging areas. <br />4. All development must be located within the current ten-year staging area unless a <br />Comprehensive Plan amendment is approved that redefines the current ten-year staging <br />area. <br />If approved as proposed the amendments would bring the area into the current staging area to <br />allow utility services to be provided. <br />5. All development must be phased within each ten-year staging area in accordance with the <br />staging plan unless the City Council determines, by resolution, to redefine the location of the <br />current five-year phase. <br />No development is proposed outside of the current staging area. <br />6. Prior to reaching the time threshold for the next ten-year staging area, or five-year phase <br />within a ten-year staging area, depicted on the staging plan, the City Council will determine <br />by resolution if the next area is to be opened to development. The following criteria will be <br />used to determine where and when to open up the next ten-year staging area, or five-year <br />phase within a staging area, in accordance with the timing indicated on the staging plan: