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Plan and other work products. The Open House was attended by 42 residents and comments received were generally positive. Most notably the City was commended for the collaborative work with the Rice Creek Watershed District. During the past five months the advisory panel has worked almost exclusively on growth management, the 2030 Land Use Plan, and the 2030 Staging Plan. In January the panel kicked off the 2030 plan development with a meeting dedicated solely to growth management legal foundations, the City's existing policy and alternatives. This discussion and the panel's work was presented at a joint meeting of the council and city advisory boards in February. During March and April the panel continued its work on the land use and staging plans as well as growth management issues. At its May 16, 2008 meeting the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Panel reached consensus of the following: 1. 2030 Forecasts to be used for the 2030 Comprehensive Plan 2. Draft 2030 Staging Plan 3. Draft 2030 Land Use Plan 4. Revised Comp Plan Process schedule Forecasts The proposed 2030 forecasts for both households and employment provide for 6,600 new households and 4,080 new jobs by 2030. The forecasts are based on the market demand analysis conducted in 2006, which were adjusted by Bonestroo to reflect the current slowdown in the market and were refined somewhat following discussions with Metropolitan Council staff. The forecasts play an important part in the comprehensive planning process but we should not make them more than what they are. They are an "educated" guess at what we need to plan for. Essentially they provide us with a starting point to identify constraints in our system plans, land use needs, and ultimately infrastructure needs. The Metropolitan Council uses the forecasts to plan for and prioritize regional infrastructure investments such as the sanitary sewer and transportation systems. The council also uses the forecasts in conjunction with the city's land use plan to evaluate density guidelines. For Lino Lakes this means an average density of 3 to 5 residential units per net acre of developable land. The purpose of the density guidelines is to ensure development at a suitable density to achieve efficient and cost effective regional investment in infrastructure. You may notice that the household numbers computed, by land use district, use the low end of the density range i.e. 1.5 units /acre for low density residential (see attached Table 3). Met Council requires density to be calculated in this manner to make certain that the appropriate density is achieved. The forecasts are higher than what Metropolitan Council originally provided. The prior forecasts were constrained by the city' s growth management policy of limiting new development to an average of 147 units per year. The proposed forecasts, as stated an k di ( cti -t 2 • •