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Planning & Zoning Board January 8, 2003 Page 31 APPROVED MINUTES Chair Schaps declared the public hearing opened at 10:30 p.m. Staff explained that the Comprehensive Plan adopted in 2002 includes important policies relating to the management of growth in the City. Now that the Comprehensive Plan is in place, the City must adopt the means of implementing it. The Growth Management Ordinance establishes the means by which the City will regulate the amount of growth. It will work with the Subdivision Ordinance and the Zoning Ordinance, which generally regulate the type of growth. There is some overlap, however. Staff stated the fundamental growth management elements of the Comprehensive Plan are: a)The target for annual growth of 147 new homes per year. b)The future land use map that lays out locational and timing limits on new growth: Stage 1 (pre-2010) and Stage 2 (2010-2020). c)A specified number of MUSA reserve acres for accommodating new growth in each of the staged growth areas. These three elements form the foundation of the Growth Management Ordinance. Staff advised that Section 1 of the ordina nce lists findings. The findings accomplish a number of things. They connect the ordinance to the Comprehensive Plan, and they list facts and justifications that form the basis of the regulations created by the ordinance. Section 2 is the regulatory part of the ordinance. Each paragraph relates to one or more of the fundamental growth management elements listed above. Staff explained that it is important to read Section 2 of the ordinance in order, as each paragraph builds on previous paragraphs. Staff reviewed each of the findings as contained in draft Ordinance No. 01-03 as we ll as the provisions contained in the Growth Management Policy. Staff addressed the approved Phasing Pl an/Final Platting Schedule, noting that Paragraphs 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 refer to phasi ng plans and an inventory of approved phasing plans, which requires some explanation. The City needs a way to keep track of the number of housing units that are approved and the schedule for when they will be built. The best way to do this is to track and regulate the approval of platted lots or housing units. (A single family detached lot will accommodate one housing unit. However, multi-family residential structures can be built on one lot. Therefore, it is the number of units that counts.) Staff explained that lots cannot be built on until the final plat is approved. Once the final plat is approved, we can assume that the lots will be built on relatively soon. The ordinance states (paragraph 9) that all plats over 50 units must include a phasing plan. (The new Subdivision Ordinance also require s a phasing plan. This is one of the overlapping points of the Growth Manageme nt Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance.) The phasing plan will be negotiated during the project review process. Ultimately, when the City Council approves a preliminary plat, the phasing plan will be part of the