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Mattamy Homes Limited Minneapolis Division and a blend of residents at different points in their life. To design a neighborhood this size with two or three different products would create too much "sameness". Relationship to Comprehensive Plan Land Use. The City's Comprehensive Land Use Plan has a designation of Mixed Use. Within this designation, there was allowed up to be 20% commercial with the residential land allowed to have 4.5 du/net acre with no more than 2/3 of the residential area being 3.0 du/acre or less. Excluding wetlands, Watermark has a net density of 2.5 du/acre. If all the stormwater ponds, parks, open space, screening and wetland (natural and mitigation) areas were removed, a density of 3.75 du/acre is achieved. The proposal falls well below what is allowed under the Comprehensive Plan and significantly below the previous proposed Hardwood Creek. Environment. Contained within the City's Comprehensive Plan is a Resource Management Plan; this was a joint effort between the City and the RCWD. Incorporated into this was a system of trail corridors, wetland corridors, stormwater facilities and neighborhood parks. Watermark incorporates all these concepts into its design. The RCWD is currently considering removing its WMC designation from the site in order to allow greater creativity and flexibility in design of the open space/stormwater/trail corridor concepts; this should allow for Additional open space not designated as buffers or replacement wetlands. At this point in the design of the neighborhood, the details of all these facilities remain to be decided but Mattamy has provided a generous land use framework within which to accomplish the intent of the RMP. Parks. The Comprehensive Plan contemplates a 5 acre neighborhood park integrated into an open space system that will contain trails/sidewalks that go throughout the neighborhood as well as continue north and west as indicated in the Comprehensive Plan. Mattamy has designed its stormwater system to allow for the possibility of a trail corridor being combined with it as it crosses County Road 21 and travels west to the lake. As part of the neighborhood park, Mattamy would like to work with the City to explore the potential of building a small recreational building (built by Mattamy with park fees) within or adjacent to the neighborhood park. This could be used by city residents for meetings, large picnics, or other events. This had once been considered as a private facility however a private recreational building in the proximity of a public park seemed inefficient. The townhouse portion of the community will have a 1/2 acre private park/playground to serve the residents of the townhouse neighborhood.