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Hailey Manor page 4 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. After several City Council discussions, it appears that the best thing to do would be to submit to the Met Council a comprehensive plan amendment that would include all the lots fronting on Lois Lane. This does not commit the City to providing utility service nor to allow the properties to redevelop. A platting application would be needed for that, and it would be subject to a review just like Hailey Manor or any development proposal. A comp plan amendment for the entire street does provide the possibility of utility service redevelopment. Therefore, if the project is to proceed, staff is recommending that the comp plan amendment include a request for: - a land use category change (unsewered to sewered) for all the Mar Don Acres lots with frontage on Lois Lane, - an additional 17acres of MUSA, which would be for those lots, - and to include the lots in the Stage 1 growth area. The MUSA allocation would be approved with the preliminary plat and granted with the final plat. That is, the properties will not have MUSA until they are rezoned, platted, and granted MUSA. Growth Management, Units/Year: The table below show the status of the staging plans for final platting new residential units. The ten new units in Hailey Manor would fit within the policy of 147 per year and so could be final platted in 2003 — provided MUSA is made available for the project. The project also would fit in the 2004 lot allowance.