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COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 26, 1998 • without a 4/5 vote which is illegal. He stated he hopes the Council can get the job done in time. All parties need to be willing to negotiate. • Mayor Sullivan stated she is proud to be here and be a part of the first comprehensive Plan overhaul. For the first time tonight the meeting included public response from the public hearing input. Lino Lakes is the first City to care enough to preserve the environment and natural resources with an Environmental Inventory Plan. Lino Lakes has been recognized by the DNR as a trend setter. This is not the first time the City has included citizen input. Lino Lakes is #1 regarding working with citizens on the planning project process. This is the second part of the City's strategic planning process. The first part was 2020. Vision 2020 identified growth planning. Within growth planning citizens wanted commercial development and environmental issues addressed first. The Comprehensive Plan does that. Lino Lakes citizens value their community. The Plan is about so much more than what the Metropolitan Council wants. By having 2020 Vision in place, the City has the vision to drive a unique Comprehensive Plan and have a plan for growth. Every citizen that spoke should feel responsible for the success of the Plan. The beginning of thought is in disagreement. Lino Lakes can be proud it is a community committed to consensus and something everyone can live with. The City moves with actionable accuracy. Mayor Sullivan stated she is not a supporter of the 147 housing figure. She stated it is however a basis by which the City can move forward; The City is looking at a goal of 7,575 new homes by 2020. That is an average of 147 per year. Home building could be more or less units per year. The figure allows the City to be flexible keeping the goal in mind. If the City is not getting commercial development more residential development can be allowed. Everything indicates the City needs residential development to support commercial development. Most citizens have agreed slower growth is the opportunity. She stated she has received calls from people who want faster growth and calls from people who do not want additional commercial growth. Part of listening is listening to all citizens and finding a consensus. In order to find slower growth and quality of life the Cityhas to determine how slow is to slow in order to accomplish other objectives. Residential development is not the only piece of moderate growth. Moderate growth has a housing development goal of 7,575. The other issues are education, commercial development, and everything else that has gone into the Plan for consideration. The Plan can not be boiled down to the number of homes. The commercial development discussion included clustering commercial development where there is destination commercial and neighborhood commercial. Neighborhood commercial is not intended to draw additional traffic. Destination commercial is intended to draw additional traffic and customers to the City that do not necessarily live in the City. Because of this, corridors for I-35 have been identified. Additional commercial development is required to have more buffering for the most benefit with the least impact. The Plan includes what is believed to be the right amount of commercial development. Certain locations have been identified for current development. The tax base goals have been put in place. The goal is for commercial development to equal 10% in 2010 and 15% in 2020. The goal is for a 20% tax capacity rate in 2020. Great value has been put on open space. The Plan addresses open space and aesthetic issues. Additional buffering and additional setbacks addresses aesthetics. The Environmental Inventory Plan addresses open spaces. The Environmental Inventory Plan has great value. It will be implemented into the Plan. The Plan also includes many ideals of nature conservancy not only to preserve spots of open space but to take care of the planning that goes on around the open space. The City does not want a negative 17