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Eagle Brook Church page 2 ANALYSIS Land Use and Zoning Comprehensive Plan: According to the comprehensive plan, the project site is guided for Low Density Sewered Residential land use. In addition to land use categories, the comprehensive plan designates growth areas for pre -2010 (stage 1) and 2010 -2020 (stage 2). The site is split between stage one and stage two areas. These growth areas pertain to when city utilities (sanitary sewer and water) may be made available for the area in question in order to support residential development. Since the project does not comprise residential development and it does not rely on city utilities, the growth areas are not immediately relevant to the church proposal. Location Existing Land Use Guided Land Use (Comp. Plan) Zoning Site agriculture Low Density Sewered Resid. Rural North rural residential Rural Rural South rural resid., agric. Low Density Sewered Resid. Rural East rural resid., agric. Medium Density Resid. Rural West Peltier Lake Low Dens. Sewered Resid., Public /Semi - Public Rural The comprehensive plan does not establish a separate land use category specifically for churches. Several existing church properties on large parcels are designated as Public /Semi Public land use, as are parks and the City Hall location. This reflects the existing uses, but the comprehensive plan makes no attempt to predict where a church may want to locate in the city and provides no guidelines in for locating churches. The comprehensive plan creates seven planning districts across the city that include recommendations for the specified areas. The project site is within planning district six. No recommendations refer to the specific site or to churches. The only recommendation that refers to anything specific to the immediate area states that the city will work with the City of Centerville to facilitate the future improvement of 20th Ave. The comprehensive plan also establishes conceptual greenways on the land use map. Greenways are corridors of protected open space managed for conservation and recreational purposes. The city has no ownership or other rights to greenways simply because they appear on the conceptual map. They are to be further defined as individual development projects arise, in cooperation with the site developer. A conceptual greenway overlaps the northwestern portion of the project site. This area of the site consists of wetlands and woodlands and is not intended for development. The site plan indicates only a stormwater pond in the envisioned greenway area. The rest of the development would be on the eastern portion of the site. The church plan is compatible with the city's greenway corridor plan by preserving the envisioned greenway area as open space. In fact, the church is proposing a conservation and wetland easement over the southwestern portion of the site. Resolution 04 -17, page 2