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• • • AGENDA ITEM V. B STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser P & Z MEETING DATE: October 13, 2004 TOPIC: PUBLIC HEARING Amending Growth Management Policy BACKGROUND The City adopted Ordinance 01 -03 in January 2003. This ordinance lists the specifics of the growth management policy, including the annual limits on the number of MUSA acres to be allocated and the number of units /lots to be platted. The policy requires a phasing plan for projects of 50 units or more. We maintain the inventory required in Section 2, paragraph 11 using tables tracking the allocation of MUSA and the approval of units/lots in preliminary plats. These tables are attached at the end of the report. The general approach to amending the ordinance is to add a section that gives the City Council more discretion in approving housing units in any given year above the stipulated growth limits as defined in Section 2 — Growth Management Policy. This discretion would only be applied in cases where the developer of property successfully collaborates with the City and submits a conservation development proposal that includes public values that exceed those achievable under a conventional development approach. The determination as to whether this threshold is reached will be at the sole discretion of the City Council. In this context, "conventional development" is defined as a development proposal that meets the minimum requirements of the City's ordinances regulating subdivision and platting, zoning, street standards, and other pertinent requirements. "Conservation development" refers to a collaborative process in which certain stipulated public values are sought in exchange for greater flexibility on general development requirements and the growth limits defined under this policy. OPTIONS FOR AMENDING THE POLICY The adopted ordinance is attached, with amendment options added. Language amending the ordinance is shown in underlined text. We have added a finding recognizing the importance of the public values and allowing flexibility to achieve them. After that, we have presented two options. Both are presented in a new Section 3 of the ordinance.