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4 • Eagle Brook Church page 2 The comprehensive plan does not establish a separate land use category specifically for churches. Several existing church properties on large parcels are designated as Public /Semi Public land use, as are parks and the City Hall location. There is no way to predict where a church may want to locate in the city, and there are no guidelines in the comprehensive plan for locating churches. The comprehensive plan creates seven planning districts across the city that include recommendations for the specified areas. The project site is within planning district six. No recommendations refer to the specific site or to churches. The only recommendation that refers to anything specific to the immediate area states that the city will work with the City of Centerville to facilitate the future improvement of 20th Ave. The comprehensive plan also establishes conceptual greenways on the land use map. Greenways are corridors of protected open space managed for conservation and recreational purposes. The city has no ownership or other rights to greenways simply because they appear on the conceptual map. They are to be further defined as individual development projects arise, in cooperation with the site developer. A conceptual greenway overlaps the northwestern portion of the project site. This area of the site consists of wetlands and woodlands and is not intended for development. The site plan indicates only a stormwater pond in the envisioned greenway. The rest of the development would be on the eastern portion of the site. The church plan is compatible with the city's greenway corridor plan by preserving the envisioned greenway area as open space. In fact, the church is proposing a conservation and wetland easement over the southwestern portion of the site. Zoning: The site is in a Rural zoning district. A church is a conditional use in this zone. Much of the site is within the shoreland overlay zone that covers land within 1000 feet of the ordinary high water level (OHWL) of Peltier Lake. The submittal compares with the Rural zoning and shoreland standards as follows: