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• If yes, describe the plan, discuss its compatibility with the project and explain how any conflicts will be resolved. If no, explain. Yes. The City of Lino Lakes has an existing comprehensive plan which includes a land use plan. The City is nearing approval of a new comprehensive plan to guide development in the City through year 2020. Both plans guide the site for commercial land uses. As described in more detail in item 9, the site has been guided and zoned for retail development since 1990. The project is compatible with the land use designation in the existing plan and draft new comprehensive plan. The City also has a surface water management plan that must be consistent with the larger plan for the Rice Creek Watershed District. All development projects are reviewed for consistency with surface water management policies. The City works closely with the Watershed District in reviewing projects. The City's policy is to require approval by the Watershed District before the City will approve the project. 28. Impact on Infrastructure and Public Services: Will new or expanded utilities, roads, other infrastructure, or public services be required to serve the project? If yes, describe the new or additional infrastructure / services needed. (Any infrastructure that is a "connected action" with respect to the project must be assessed in this "EAW "; see "EAW Guidelines" for details.) City water and sanitary sewer are available in Lake Drive and will be extended into the site. Traffic signal and roadway improvements will be necessary. See item 21. 29. Cumulative impacts. Minnesota Rule part 4410.1700, subpart 7, item B requires that the RGU consider the "cumulative potential effects of related or anticipated future projects" when determining the need for an environmental impact statement. Identify any past, present or reasonably foreseeable future projects that may interact with the project described in this EAW in such a way as to cause cumulative impacts. Describe the nature of the cumulative impacts and summarize any other available information relevant to determining whether there is potential for significant environmental effects due to cumulative impacts (or discuss each cumulative impact under appropriate item(s) elsewhere on this form). Additional commercial development is expected adjacent to the project site. Abutting land on the southern border of the project site is approximately 10 acres of land guided and zoned for commercial development. This land is controlled by another entity and is not being developed as part of the proposed project. The 10 acres runs along the freeway and forms a rough triangle shape. The traffic study used by this EAW included an estimate of 33,000 sf of small retail and restaurant on this 10 acres. This would require approximately 280 parking stalls. Compared to the larger project currently being proposed, this additional retail space would make up 10% additional retail square footage and 16% additional parking. (Restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, require a much higher parking ratio than retail.) Corresponding increases in traffic could be expected. These traffic impacts are included in the TKDA traffic study, Exhibit G. Additional stormwater ponding would be necessary. Future development on this 10 acres is not by the same project proposer as the current project. Nor is either project directly induced by the other or a prerequisite for the other. Each is justified by Page 26 of 28 Draft EAW Lino Lakes Marketplace May 11, 2001