11-25-2024 Council Meeting Agenda Packet

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remove an extra bureaucratic step (a Comprehensive Plan Amendment) from the process of extending utility service. However, the Metropolitan Council's formulas for calculating compliance with regional density policies would penalize the city for including these existing neighborhoods unless there is current documentation of SSTS failures. Therefore, case -by - case plan amendments will be necessary before service can be extended to these existing neighborhoods. 1. The City will create a fully integrated Comprehensive Plan and keep it up to date with biannual reviews. The City will perform an intensive review at least once every five years to ensure the plan addresses changing needs and conditions. The need for a Comprehensive Plan amendment to provide municipal services has been petitioned by the residents. The amendment will allow utilities to be provided to replace failing septic systems and wells. 2. The Comprehensive Plan will include a staging plan defining development staging areas sized to accommodate forecasted growth. The proposed amendment to the staging plan will allow the land to be brought into the current staging plan phase. The adjacent areas to the north, south and east are all in the current staging area. 3. The City will monitor the ten-year staging areas and annually determine if adequate land remains available. The proposed amendment applies to land already developed and will have no impact on land supply within staging areas. 4. All development must be located within the current ten-year staging area unless a Comprehensive Plan amendment is approved that redefines the current ten-year staging area. If approved as proposed the amendments would bring the area into the current staging area to allow utility services to be provided. 5. All development must be phased within each ten-year staging area in accordance with the staging plan unless the City Council determines, by resolution, to redefine the location of the current five-year phase. No development is proposed outside of the current staging area.