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• <br />• <br />• <br />Policies: <br />1. Create a housing development plan that defines the types and locations of housing <br />development required to meet the community's projected needs. <br />2. Work closely with neighboring communities to ensure an integrated plan that is <br />consistent with the Metropolitan Council's requirements and compatible with adjacent <br />jurisdictions. <br />3. Ensure that the fully integrated comprehensive plan is kept current to provide a rationale <br />for all decisions. <br />4. Create and maintain a development staging plan to manage growth and guide the <br />orderly and cost effective provision of infrastructure at a rate that is consistent with <br />forecasted growth. <br />5. Provide clearly defined incentives to achieve significant and discernable public values not <br />achievable under conventional development standards. These public values include, but <br />are not limited to: <br />a. Preserving open space, providing park dedication and trails, and /or providing <br />storm water management areas, in excess of minimum standards to implement <br />the Resource Management System Plan, as amended, and Rice Creek Watershed <br />District's Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan, as amended <br />b. Using "Green" building and low impact development techniques <br />c. Restoring /enhancing ecological systems <br />d. Ensuring long term natural resource stewardship funding <br />e. Managing stormwater using natural filtration and other ecologically based <br />approaches <br />f. Providing life -cycle and affordable housing <br />g. Diversifying the tax base to lessen the tax burden on residential properties <br />h. Providing infrastructure that benefits community beyond the project site that <br />would otherwise not be financially feasible <br />6. Identify and define incentives offered to developers for achieving specific public values <br />not achievable under conventional development standards. These incentives may <br />include, but are not limited to: <br />a. Density transfer /bonuses <br />b. Reduced street and right -of -way widths <br />c. Trunk utility and stormwater management fee credits <br />d. Staging plan flexibility <br />e. Streamlined city approval process <br />f. Financial incentives when consistent with city policy <br />7. Encourage master planning to accomplish the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan <br />including, but not limited to, implementing the Resource Management System Plan, as <br />amended, implementing Rice Creek Watershed District's Lino Lakes Resource <br />Management Plan, as amended, providing life -cycle housing, and diversifying the city's <br />tax base. <br />8. Ensure, as areas are developed, that a specific development project bears its <br />proportionate share of infrastructure improvement costs to the fullest extent possible. <br />3 -3 <br />