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• The City's comprehensive plan guides the Mar Don Acres neighborhood for Low Density Unsewered Residential. The plan addresses such neighborhoods directly: The rural areas also include unsewered low density residential and use areas on lot sizes of less than five acres in size. As illustrated on the Proposed Land Use Plan, the unsewered residential developments are scattered throughout the City. These unsewered residential subdivisions were created prior to 1990 when the City increased its rural lot size to 10 acres. Property owners within the unsewered residential subdivisions have expressed concerns related to nearby urban growth and the extension of utilities to their subdivision. The encroachment of urban growth has presented concerns for land use compatibility and traffic. Property owners are also concerned with cost of special assessments related to larger lots if utilities are extended within the subdivision. In response to these existing land use issues, the Proposed Land Use Plan recognizes the existing unsewered residential subdivisions as long term land use within the City. These properties will continue to exist in this present condition unless the property owners wish to pursue municipal utilities and resubdivision of the larger lots. • To preserve the character of these unsewered residential subdivisions, the following strategies will be pursued: • 1. The existing unsewered residential subdivisions will remain outside the City's MUSA and not be eligible for municipal utilities. 2. MUSA would be available to an unsewered residential subdivision only if the Comprehensive Plan amendment and a utility improvement is petitioned for by the majority of the property owners that may benefit from the utility improvement and approved by the City. City of Lino Lakes Comprehensive Plan, pages 82 -83 Growth Management, MUSA Reserve: The comprehensive plan and the growth management policy establish a specific number of MUSA acres for residential growth for stage one (prior to year 2010). The MUSA reserve was calculated based on a specified amount of growth in specified areas. The total did not include growth resulting from converting existing low density unsewered residential areas to sewered areas. And, as noted above, the comprehensive plan clearly states that MUSA would be available to an unsewered residential subdivision only if the comprehensive plan is amended. The City is not using existing MUSA reserve to accommodate the Elm Street project. We are processing a comp plan amendment that includes a new MUSA request for that neighborhood.