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• AGENDA ITEM V. B STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser P & Z MEETING DATE: January 8, 2003 TOPIC: PUBLIC HEARING: Growth Management Ordinance BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS 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, we 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. 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. The Ordinance Section 1 of the ordinance 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's hope is that the ordinance is largely self - explanatory. Rather than offer a summary here I will go through the ordinance itself, paragraph by paragraph, at the P & Z meeting. It is important to read Section 2 of the ordinance in order, as each paragraph builds on previous paragraphs.