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• • COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 13, 2003 APPROVED pieces of the package. He noted that the Planning and Zoning Board held a public hearing on Ordinance 01-03 on Wednesday, January 8, 2003. Staff has provided a copy of the Planning and Zoning Board staff report on the ordinance. City Planner Smyser explained that it is important to get the Growth Management Ordinance adopted prior to the expiration of the moratorium on residential development. The moratorium expires on February 22, 2003. City Planner Smyser noted the Council has seen this before and asked for Council direction whether a full staff presentation should be made. Councilmember Carlson stated that generally on significant issues such as this, it is reviewed at length. Mayor Bergeson asked if anyone in the audience had comments on this item. No one indicated a desire to make comment on the Growth Management Ordinance. City Planner Smyser explained that the Comprehensive Plan adopted in 2002 includes important policies relating to the management of growth in the City. Now that the Comprehensive Plan is in place, we must adopt the means of implementing it. The Growth Management Ordinance establishes the means by which the City will regulate the amount of growth. It will work with the Subdivision Ordinance and the Zoning Ordinance, which generally regulate the type of growth. There is some overlap, however. Staff stated the fundamental growth management elements of the Comprehensive Plan are: a) The target for annual growth of 147 new homes per year. b) The future land use map that lays out locational and timing limits on new growth: Stage 1 (pre -2010) and Stage 2 (2010-2020). c) A specified number of MUSA reserve acres for accommodating new growth in each of the staged growth areas. These three elements form the foundation of the Growth Management Ordinance. City Planner Smyser advised that Section 1 of the ordinance lists findings. The findings accomplish a number of things. They connect the ordinance to the Comprehensive Plan, and they list facts and justifications that form the basis of the regulations created by the ordinance. Section 2 is the regulatory part of the ordinance. City Planner Smyser pointed out the findings as contained in Section 1 of the draft ordinance. He then presented the provisions established by the Growth Management Policy as follows: 1. Promoting development within the existing MUSA is preferable to expanding the developing area of the City by granting MUSA reserve acres. This preference is intended to promote the cost- effective use of public investment by maximizing the utilization of existing infrastructure. 10