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• <br />Amending Growth Management Policy <br />page 4 <br />CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />ORDINANCE NO. 01 -03 <br />ORDINANCE CREATING A GROWTH MANAGEMENT POLICY <br />The City Council of Lino Lakes hereby ordains: <br />Section 1 Findings <br />The Lino Lakes City Council makes the following findings: <br />1. The City of Lino Lakes adopted a comprehensive plan that includes goals and policies to <br />guide planning and the growth of the city. <br />2. Managing growth through the orderly provision of infrastructure and other means promotes <br />the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan. It is in the best interests of the public to <br />create rational, cost effective means of managing growth so that it will be orderly, efficient, <br />and environmentally sound. <br />3. Unplanned growth does not meet community needs and is injurious to the public health, <br />safety, and welfare. Inadequately planned growth has created and may create or aggravate <br />negative conditions such as: <br />a. overburdened public facilities <br />b. underutilized public facilities resulting in wasteful investment of public resources <br />c. an inadequate variety of housing choices that does not meet community needs <br />d. environmentally detrimental development projects and patterns <br />4. The comprehensive plan establishes future land uses, staged growth areas, growth goals, and <br />a Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) reserve for the city. <br />5. The Stage 1 growth area is the geographic limit for growth prior to year 2010. The Stage 2 <br />area is for growth from 2010 to 2020. <br />6. The MUSA reserve obtained with the comprehensive plan includes 359 acres for Stage 1, <br />and 909 acres for Stage 2. The MUSA reserve also includes a balance of 15.7 acres <br />designated for residential use left over from the 1995 MUSA reserve. The total Stage 1 <br />MUSA reserve therefore is 374.7 acres. <br />7. There is undeveloped land within the existing MUSA. <br />8. A growth management policy is necessary, in addition to official controls such as the zoning <br />and subdivision ordinances, to implement the comprehensive plan and promote the public <br />health, safety, and welfare. <br />