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Comprehensive Plan Amendment The proposed comprehensive plan amendment includes the following five elements: (1) Amending the proposed land use plan map. The current designations are Industrial, Medium - Density, and High- Density Residential. This would be changed to guide the entire site for Mixed Use. (see map, Attachments A and B) (2) The amendment includes a request for 370 acres of MUSA for the Stage 1 growth area. This additional MUSA would be mapped, not held in a reserve. (3) Even though our comprehensive plan includes Mixed Use on the proposed land use map, there is no description of this land use category in the text of the document. This should be addressed by describing the intent of the Mixed Use category. Attachment C includes the proposed text amendment. (4) The growth management ordinance states that an amendment of the comprehensive plan shall be required if, in order to accommodate a specific development project, the annual target for new growth (units /year) would be exceeded (Section 2, 7.). It is unlikely that the master plan for this development could proceed within the limits of the target of 147 units per year. (The 1029 units for Stage 1 noted in Section 2, paragraph 5 of the growth policy, is based on 147 x 7 years.) The proposed text in Attachment C includes a brief description of the Village of Hardwood Creek project and specifies that the comp plan amendment is intended to meet this requirement of the growth ordinance. There also is a brief reference to the project to be added to the Planning District 6 section of the comprehensive plan document. (5) The comprehensive plan itself includes a list of Growth Management Policies, which includes "Limit residential growth to an average of 147 units per year, carrying a three year supply lot inventory" (page 27). As stated above, this would not accommodate the anticipated development project. This statement should be amended to accommodate the potential advantages of master planning large areas. The proposed text amendment (see Attachment D) includes the possibility of amending the comp plan for specific projects that are found to fulfill specified public purposes, which would justify amending the comprehensive plan to exceed the limit. In addition, the growth goals described in the comprehensive plan "assume an average of 147 new households annually through the year 2020" (page 63). This statement merits discussion. To amend this statement raises the question of amending the growth projections, an important part of planning the community's future. This will be extensively analyzed and discussed as part of the overall review of the comprehensive plan that must be completed by the end of year 2008. Therefore, I recommend no amendment to this statement in the comprehensive plan for now.