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Metropolitan Council Working for the Region, Planning for the Future Working for the Region, Planning for the Future July 29, 1997 Mary Kay Wyland, Planning Coordinator City of Lino Lakes 1189 Main Street Lino Lakes, MN 55014 RE: City of Lino Lakes Comprehensive Plan Amendment - Behm's Century Farms 2nd Addition MUSA Expansion Metropolitan Council Referral File No.16150 -4 Dear Ms. Wyland: At its meeting on July 24, 1997, the Metropolitan Council adopted the attached staff report with the following Findings and Conclusions, and the Recommendations. This consideration was based on a report of the Community Development Committee. A copy of this report is attached. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: 1. In response to significant population growth projected in the region over the next 25 years, the Metropolitan Council has adopted a Regional Growth Strategy as part of the Regional Blueprint. In addition, the Council has updated its regional system plans to reflect the Regional Growth Strategy. The Regional Growth Strategy proposes that cities in the region accommodate projected population,usehold and employment growth by making efficient use of land and strategically increasing development densities. 2. Under state statute (Minn. Stat. § 473.175, Subd. 1), the Metropolitan Council may require a local governmental unit to modify any comprehensive plan or part thereof which may have a substantial impact on, or contain a substantial departure from, metropolitan system plans. Substantial impact or departure in this case may extend beyond an individual plan to include the potential "cumulative effect" of similar plans by other communities. 3. Lino Lakes is a city of 13,000 people and 3,900 households (1995 estimate) located in southeastern Anoka County. It is shaped by regional facilities: interstate freeways (I -35W & I -35E) and the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park Reserve and is on the growing edge of the metropolitan urban area. Lino Lakes proposes to use some of its 150 -acre MUSA reserve for the 55.7 -acre (net) Behm's Century Farm Development project. This acreage is proposed to be subtracted from the City's 150 -acre MUSA reserve. 4. The project involves consolidation and replatting of 30 previously platted but undeveloped 5 -acre lots and an outlot to create 135 single family lots at a net density of 2.42 units /acre. The replatting will permit this area of Lino Lakes, which could be developed at quasi -rural densities and have the effect of blocking or postponing • urbanization of this part of the City, to be urbanized consistent with the Regional Growth Strategy. The project's proposed density is greater than the City's historic density of 1.3 units /acre and higher than the Regional Growth Strategy density guidelines of 2.3 units /acre for single family housing in Lino Lakes. The plan amendment is fully consistent with the Regional Growth Strategy and the Regional Blueprint. non c,.* c+stit, FF1n1 -1asa (61 21 291 -6359 Fax 291 -6550 TDD/TIY 291 -0904 Metro Info Line 229 -3780