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• • WS — Item 7 WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT Work Session Item 7 Date: November 1, 2010 To: City Council From: Jeff Smyser Re: Century Farms North 5th Addition PUD amendment Replatting Detached Townhome Lots to Individual Single Family Lots Background The Century Farms North residential development is a planned unit development (PDO) in northwest Lino Lakes that the City approved in 2003. It includes a mix of housing styles: typical single family lots; single family airpark lot with hangars; detached townhomes (individual house lots located within a commonly owned yard lot); and attached townhomes. The preliminary plat for the overall project was approved in 2003. Four final plats have been approved, each including a phase of the overall project. Most of the development has been final platted, but the last phase has not. The last phase is still owned by the developer: Century Farm North Development. Many of the detached townhomes have not yet been constructed in the phase that was most recently final platted. They are owned by a builder: Sharper Homes. Sharper and Century Farms North Development want to amend the remaining part of preliminary plat as well as several unbuilt lots that have been final platted. They want to convert detached townhome lots to individual single family home lots. This is a response to changing market conditions. This proposal will require an amendment to the preliminary plat and a new final plat that includes some of the lots. The new final plat would include four lots already final platted as well as one of the lots in the amended preliminary plat. The normal process for platting property will be followed. This proposal does not add any dwelling units to the project beyond the number that was originally approved in 2003. Nor does it change the area of land for each dwelling unit. The attached detail figure shows how lots will change.