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AGENDA ITEM V. A STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser P & Z MEETING DATE: September 27, 2005 TOPIC: •CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: Comprehensive Plan Amendment Village of Hardwood Creek •General Concept Plan, Planned Unit Development BACKGROUND We have received an application from Village of Hardwood Creek, LLC, to amend the comprehensive plan. A public hearing is required for a comprehensive plan amendment. A comprehensive plan amendment requires a formal vote. The application also includes a general concept plan for a planned unit development. The concept plan review is informal and does not require a vote. It is important to note that approval of this comprehensive plan amendment does not grant or imply any right to an approval of the PUD application that will follow. The growth management policy, laid out in Ordinance No. 24 -04, was prepared to implement the intent of the comprehensive plan. The growth management policy requires that several issues be addressed if the City is to accommodate this application. This project application is the first one that requires an amendment to the comprehensive plan as directed by the growth management ordinance. Review of the relevant parts of the comprehensive plan resulted in recommendations to add or change several passages. The amendment to the comprehensive plan would involve a number of elements. This application does not include a planned unit development or preliminary plat. It does not include the detailed information normally part of such applications. Because of this, we cannot analyze the project to see if it would qualify for the exemptions to certain growth management limits as a conservation development. In additions, there are some limits from which we cannot grant exemptions. Therefore, a comprehensive plan amendment is needed to address growth issues as well as changing the land use designation for the site. Basically, three parts of the plan amendment relate directly to the application: changing the land use, adding MUSA, and addressing the growth management issues. Because the comprehensive plan is a city -wide document, we need to ensure that amendments to the document support future planning needs.