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Comprehensive Plan Amendment Village of Hardwood Creek page 3 has a MUSA reserve. As part of the approval of the comprehensive plan in 2002, the City received additional MUSA reserve acres from the Metropolitan Council. The amount of MUSA reserve was based on the City's estimates of the need for residential and commercial /industrial development. There are only 90 acres remaining in reserve for Stage 1 (pre -2010) residential development and 68.5 acres for commercial /industrial development. The development project site requires 363 acres of additional MUSA. The rectangular exception is about 7 acres, for a total of 370 acres. A request for 370 acres of new MUSA would be part of the amendment submitted to Metropolitan Council for review. Under state statute, every municipality in the Metropolitan Area must have a comprehensive plan, and must submit amendments to the Metropolitan Council for review. The Met Council compares the city's plan to the regional Development Framework, which includes plans for the individual systems over which the Met Council has jurisdiction. These include sanitary sewer treatment, regional open space, transportation, and airports. Control over MUSA is how the Met Council ensures its sewer treatment facility planning is not overburdened or underutilized. Underutilization is wasted capital improvement, and thus poor use of public funds. Growth Management, Number of Units: The growth policy establishes a target for the number of dwelling units that can be platted each year: 147. This works out to a total of 1029 units between 2003 and 2010 (147 x 7 years = 1029). There are 76 units available for year 2007, 147 for 2008, and 147 for 2009. The proposed development area is intended to accommodate 1200 to 1250 dwelling units over six years. This would exceed the 1029 total and the 147 per year. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS The following lists the reasons why a comprehensive plan amendment would be needed: (1) The proposed land use plan map must be amended if the application is to be approved. The current designations are Industrial, Medium- Density, and High - Density Residential. This would be changed to guide the entire site for Mixed Use. (2) The amendment must include a request for 370 acres of MUSA for the Stage 1 growth area. (3) In addition, even though our comprehensive plan includes Mixed Use on the proposed land use map, there is no description of this land use category in the text of the document. This should be addressed by describing the intent of the Mixed Use category.