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• • • Moon Marsh page 2 Comprehensive Plan, Land Use, Zoning Location Existing Land Use Guided Land Use (Comp. Plan) Zoning Site rural residential Rural Rural North rural residential City of Columbus: Rural Res. /Agricul. City of Columbus: Rural Residential South regional park reserve Rural Rural East regional park reserve Rural Rural West rural Rural Rural Comprehensive Plan: The Comprehensive Plan guides the project site for Rural land use. The site is outside of both Stage 1 (pre -2010) and Stage 2 (pre -2020) growth areas and is well outside the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA). The Comprehensive Plan includes a policy stating that "density incentives may be considered in conjunction with a rural cluster subdivision that produces permanent open space." Another policy is to "promote rural residential clustering as a means of preserving greater amounts of open space or agricultural active lands." To implement these, the zoning ordinance provides for a rural residential PUD with a common septic system. A rural PUD must have at least 50% open space. The proposal includes 51% open space (Outlots C, D, and E). Rural residential PUDs are only allowed in areas such as this that are outside of planned growth areas. This is because growth areas are planned for municipal utilities and should be reserved for urban density growth. Our standard requirement that rural lots must be 10 acres is a way to hold areas for more dense development when utilities are available. In an area where there will be no utilities, even long term, there is no need to protect efficient service provision. The most important issue is ensuring enough land for onsite septic systems. A common treatment area (drainfield) is an option that eliminates the need for primary and secondary drainfield areas on each lot. Growth Management: The Growth Management Policy (Ordinance No. 24 -04) limits the number of dwelling units that can be approved far platting annually. There are fewer than 80 units approved for 2007, leaving about 60+ for this year. The Moon Marsh project would create three new lots. The project includes several nature - friendly design elements, but this is not a "conservation development" as we typically use the term. It does not have a formally adopted stewardship (management) plan. Because we have ample units remaining for 2007 and this project creates only three new lots, there is no need to exempt the project from the annual limit Zoning: The site is zoned Rural. The normal lot size requirement is 10 acres, and there are shoreland requirements to consider. However, a rural residential PUD with a common septic system can have up to eight units per 40 acres, or four per 20 acres. There is a minimum lot size of 25,000 sf for such a project.