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A. Purpose. This district is designed and intended to aid in guiding development toward fulfillment of the Comprehensive Plan and to serve the following functions: 1. To preserve productive land for agricultural use and maintain "open space" within and near to urban areas. 2. To help guide development of urban and rural areas along an orderly design to preserve continuity and efficiency of service. 3. To provide a method by which the urban farm can be guided so as to control urban sprawl and still conserve land in an economic status until such time as the need is present for an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. 4. To reduce the possibilities of rural -urban conflicts in establishing types and levels of service, methods of financing the services and needs. To maintain an acceptable per capita cost for such services as sanitary sewer, water, police, fire, road maintenance, school transportation, and other necessary services. Zoning and Land Use Current Zoning R-1, Single Family Residential Current Land Use Rural Residential Future Land Use per CP Low Density Sewered Residential Utility Staging Area IA: 2018-2015 MLCCS Perennial grasses, sparse trees and wetland Staff s review of historic zoning maps indicate the properties have been zoned R-1, Single Family Residential as far back as 1987. Surrounding Zoning and Land Use Direction Zoning Current Land Use Future Land Use North R-1, Single Family Rural Residential Low Density Sewered Residential Residential South R-1, Single Family Rural Residential Low Density Sewered Residential Residential East Rice Lake Rice Lake Rice Lake R-1, Single Family Rural Residential and Low Density Sewered West Residential and LI, Commercial Residential, Medium