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Justin's Preserve page 2 The table below identifies the existing land use and zoning as well as guided land uses for the area. Location Existing Land Use Guided Land Use Existing Zoning Site residential Low Density Sewered Resid. R -1 North Baldwin Lake Public /Semi -Public PSP South residential Low Density Sewered Resid. R -1X East residential Low. Density Unsewered Resid. R -1 West regional park reserve Public /Semi - Public PSP Growth Management: MUSA Reserve: The comprehensive plan and the growth management policy establish a specific number of MUSA acres for residential growth for stage one (prior to year 2010). The MUSA reserve was calculated based on a specified amount of growth in specified areas. That estimate did not anticipate growth resulting from creating new lots on existing sewered property: The Growth Management policy designates 36 acres of MUSA reserve for residential development each year The residential MUSA reserve for 2003 has been allocated. There are 33 acres remaining for 2004. The table below lists the residential MUSA reserve status. The site is guided and zoned for sewered residential uses, and it is in a Stage 1 (pre -2010) area The Justin's Preserve site includes approximately 3.9 acres of upland. The upland for Lot 2 is shown on the survey: 2.36 acres. 'It is not shown for Lot 1: a quick estimate is about 1.5 acres. The lot next door is 0.35 acres, for a total of about 42 acres. The lot next door is connected to city sanitary sewer and water, as is the existing house on the Justin's Preserve site Neither is in the MUSA. Growth Management, Units/Year: The table at the end of this report shows the status of the staging plans for final platting new residential units. The limits for both 2003 and 2004 have been exceeded. However, one more lot for 2003 would exceed the 147 limit by only 2 lots, or 1.4 %. One more lot for 2004 would put the total at 22 over the target, or 15% over (it is at 14% now). The City Council has the flexibility to exceed the limit by 20% without amending the comprehensive, plan. Neither the comprehensive plan nor the growth management policy anticipated the Justin's Preserve situation. One option would be to approve the new lot for 2003 conditioned upon final platting not before 2004 for the MUSA allocation. Or, put it in completely in the 2004 column and allow the total lots to go to 15% over the annual target. Much of the upland on both Lots 1 and 2 is not usable for additional lots so 4.2 acres of MUSA is not necessary. There are 3.7 acres of MUSA available for 2004. It's an odd situation with existing homes connected to utilities but not in the MUSA. Using the 3.7 acres would clean up the situation.