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the range of open space uses. The range of open space use may include agricultural production, recreational use, or passive unimproved natural open space. Wetland and • wetland mitigation does not count in 50% open space calculation." • Page 82 #3 should read "The cluster subdivision design will promote the concentration of lots into a neighborhood in an effort to create a sense of community. The lot configuration and orientation will establish an interrelationship with adjoining homes, the local streetscape, and common open space. The development shall be designed to direct noise and light pollution toward the center of the development and not into neighboring areas? Page 168 #1 needs to be more explicit and binding. Detail a regulatory mechanism here. Page 169 #1 a: Much work must be done in this area. This rather generic sentence defers the matters that will determine the success or failure of the greenway concept, rather than addressing them as a part of the comprehensive plan. In conjunction with the magnitude of the proposed growth areas, this strategy favors complete urbanization with little to no additional preservation. • Page 170 #1d2 (top of page) should read "Develop standards for green parking lots." • Page 170 #2g1 add "Establish and define the scope of "estate" lots in the city." Insert language elsewhere in the framework where appropriate to insure that the estate lot concept will become a reality and specify the parameters under and areas in which this type of development will occur. RECOMMENDATIONS: 1) infrastructure: One of the many undesired byproducts of rapid growth is that it can have major negative impacts on the infrastructure. in the case of schools, rapid growth brings in families with school -age children, overloading school districts and straining their resources while forcing new buildings to be built. Then 15-20 years down the road the student enrollments fall off sharply, forcing schools to dose in a cyde that has wasted untold billions in bricks and mortar in affected school districts across the country while producing impervious surfaces and lawn and ball field chemical usage. We are seeing this trend in all three school districts in Lino Lakes. A controlled growth approach that anticipates what the school district enrollment will be once population growth has leveled off and regulates growth so as not to cause an enrollment "overshoot" and corresponding overbuilding of schools would be appropriate. 2) Staged. Growth: The Met Council has asked cities for growth plans that are tightly staged. The framework is anything but that. Is this wise, not only in terms of gaining Met Council's approval of the comp plan, but also for our own precautions? We think not. The greater the growth area, the greater the development pressure, and the less control there is over the growth that takes place. Whenever it is decided to move the urban growth boundaries, this should be done in 2 -3 year increments, and each expansion must be evaluated against city objectives before any further expansion. The environmental . board unanimously agrees that there should be no urban growth boundary expansion until after 2010, if at all. • Page 9