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• • Comprehensive Plan Amendment Hardwood Creek LLC page 8 documents. The Parks, Natural Open Space /Greenways and Trail System Plan provides guidance. As an incentive, the growth management policy allows conservation development to be exempt from a number of the growth restrictions. The Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) states in the mitigation plan that the Conservation Development Framework is a fundamental precept for all development within the AUAR area. Every project can and must incorporate conservation development design and/or low impact development techniques. The applicants intend this to be a conservation development project. They are aware of the City's desire to encourage conservation design, and participated in the AUAR project. They also found the growth management incentives attractive. However, the exemptions from growth limits do not include the Stage 1 MUSA total, so a comp plan amendment would still be necessary. The concept plan embraces, on a conceptual level, the conservation development ideas and elements. Discussions of open space, innovative stormwater management methods and attention to the long term management of these design features demonstrate good planning by the developer and are consistent with the City's environmental planning goals. The site is within the AUAR area and all development there must observe the Conservation Development Framework. The means that conservation development elements will be mandatory in the PUD design. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS The following lists amendments of the comprehensive plan to be considered: (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) 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. (4) The growth management ordinance states that an amendment of the comprehensive plan shall be required if, in order to accommodate a specific development project, the annual target for new growth would be exceeded (Ordinance No. 24 -04, Section 2, 7.). It is unlikely that the master plan for this development could proceed within the limits of the target of 147 units per year. (The 1029 units for Stage 1 noted in Section