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Pheasant Stroll Estates page 6 • OPTIONS 1. Approve rezoning, preliminary plat, and MUSA allocation. 2. Deny rezoning, preliminary plat, and MUSA allocation. • • RECOMMENDATION Option 2 Staff recommends denial of the rezoning, preliminary plat, and MUSA application based on the following findings: 1. The City's comprehensive plan includes the following policies: Plan transportation facilities to function in a manner compatible with adjacent land use. (page 35) Minimize and limit vehicular access onto all major collector and arterial streets ensuring adequate distance between intersections and utilization of appropriate traffic control methods and devices. (page 36) Land uses in the area need good, safe access to arterial roads. Because of the short distance between Hodgson and Ware Roads, access management is vitally important. One access to CR J, a public street, will provide good access to all properties adjacent to the subject site, and to the site itself. The proposed project does not provide for such a street. 2. The City's Growth Management Policy, Ordinance No. 24 -04, includes a finding that "managing growth through the orderly provision of infrastructure and other means promotes the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan." 3. The City's Growth Management Policy states that "promoting development within the existing MUSA is preferable to expanding the developing area of the City by granting MUSA reserve acres." 4. The proposed project requires approval of a rezoning, preliminary plat, and allocation of MUSA reserve. The site currently is not within the MUSA. 5. The City is conducting a planning study for an area that includes the proposed development site. This study will determine how the City will plan for infrastructure to serve the area. This includes transportation, water, and sanitary sewer. The study also will determine future land uses for the area. 6. A local street or frontage road are possibilities for creating access to this site. Section 1007 -4.7 of the subdivision ordinance requires that these possibilities be used rather than an individual driveway.