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• • AGENDA ITEM 6 A STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser Jeff Schoenbauer, Brauer & Associates C. C. MEETING DATE: December 13, 2004 TOPIC: VOTE REQUIRED: BACKGROUND Second Reading: Ordinance 24 -04 Amending Ord. 01 -03, Growth Management Policy 3/5 The City Council approved the first reading of Ordinance 24 -04 on November 22nd. This is the second reading. Recall that the top priority of the new Parks, Natural Open Space /Greenways and Trail System Plan is the creation and preservation of greenways. This echoes the direction in the comprehensive plan to establish greenway corridors. The main way to achieve this is the use of conservation development. Conservation development is a means to achieve higher public values than would be the case under a conventional development approach. The community has expressed the desire to preserve open space and natural features. While the existing growth management policy may delay impacts on these elements, it does not preserve them. Conservation development results in higher quality development that preserves the natural features and open space. By giving the City Council more discretion under the growth management policy, developers will be encouraged to work collaboratively with the city on achieving the highest public values for their private developments. The deteliuination as to whether or not the project reaches this threshold will be at the sole discretion of the City Council. AMENDMENTS TO THE POLICY The growth management policy was adopted in January 2003. A new Section 3 of the policy would exempt conservation development from specific growth restrictions. That is, a conservation development would be subject to neither the annual MUSA allocation limit (36 acres per year) nor the units restriction (147 per year or 1029 total for Stage 1). Several text amendments in the ordinance were necessary to support this change. The adopted ordinance is attached, with amendment options added. Added language is shown in underlined text. Deleted language is shown in strikeout text.