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• <br />• <br />Comprehensive Plan Amendment <br />Village of Hardwood Creek <br />page 9 <br />if a project would exceed the annual growth target. Incorporating them into the comp <br />plan itself provides consistency between the comprehensive plan and the growth <br />management policy ordinance. <br />(6) Text Review: Demographic Goals <br />The "Local Forecasts" section of the Land Use Plan chapter includes the growth goals for <br />the next decades: households, population, and employment. This statement is found on <br />page 63: "The goals assume an average of 147 new households annually through the <br />year 2020." This statement merits discussion. <br />To amend this statement raises the question of amending the growth projections, an <br />important part of planning the community's future. This will be extensively analyzed and <br />discussed as part of the overall review of the comprehensive plan that,must be completed <br />by the end of year 2008. <br />• Therefore, we recommend no amendment to this statement in the comprehensive plan. <br />Conservation Development Issues <br />Stormwater management methods, open space areas, connecting habitat and trail <br />greenways are conservation development elements described in several policy <br />documents. The Parks, Natural Open Space /Greenways and Trail System Plan provides <br />guidance. As an incentive, the growth management policy allows conservation <br />development to be exempt from a number of the growth restrictions. The Alternative <br />Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) states in the mitigation plan that the Conservation <br />Development Framework is a fundamental precept for all development within the AUAR <br />area. Every project can and must incorporate conservation development design and /or <br />low impact development techniques. <br />The applicants originally intended the application to be a conservation development <br />project. They are aware of the City's desire to encourage conservation design, and have <br />been following the AUAR project. They also found the growth management incentives <br />attractive. However, the exemptions from growth limits do not include the Stage 1 <br />MUSA total, so a comp plan amendment would still be necessary. <br />In addition, we need a great deal of information to classify a project as a conservation <br />development in order to exempt it from the specified growth restrictions. Specific <br />information would include such things as stormwater management designs, open space <br />designs, long term stewardship plans for open space, etc. Such infoiniation typically <br />would be included in a planned unit development /plat application. The current <br />application for a comprehensive plan amendment does not include detailed information <br />