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• • Council Member ?ei ner its adoption: introduced the following resolution and moved CITY OF LINO LAKES RESOLUTION NO. 07-21 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO INCORPORATE THE HODGSON ROAD /COUNTY ROAD J MASTER PLAN INTO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHEREAS, the City of Lino Lakes has adopted a Comprehensive Plan to guide community growth in a rational and responsible manner through 2020; and WHEREAS, MN Statutes 462.355 authorizes the governing body to amend the comprehensive municipal plan; and WHEREAS, the City has prepared the Hodgson Road/Co. Rd. J Master Plan to provide guidance for future development of the study area; and WHEREAS, the City of Lino Lakes Planning and Zoning Board held a public hearing on December 13, 2006 and recommended that the City Council approve the Comprehensive Plan amendment on January 10, 2007; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Hodgson Road/Co. Rd. J Master Plan and Comprehensive Plan amendment promotes the following public purposes, which are listed in the Mixed Use section of the Comprehensive Plan: a) provision of housing unit variety that contributes toward meeting housing goals, such as medium density, high- density, and mixed -use developments in locations designated for them in the comprehensive plan The Policy Plan section of the comprehensive plan includes the following residential goals: 1. Provide a healthy variety of housing types, styles and choices to meet the changing life cycle needs of the Lino Lakes Population. 3. Promote multiple family housing alternatives as an attractive life cycle housing option. By changing the land use designation from Commercial to Mixed Use in the specified area, the amendment will allow for a variety of residential development in an area near land guided for Medium Density Residential use. The new Mixed Use area allows for mixed use development that would not be allowed with the Commercial land use designation.