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• • CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION NOVEMBER 3, 2004 APPROVED 1 year. VLAWMO and the cities will need to review various legislative requirements and 2 determine the best way to meet obligations mandated by State and Federal statutes in the 3 future. 4 5 Mayor Bergeson asked Mr. McDowell to update the Council regarding VLAWMO's 6 discussions in relation to merging with another watershed organization. 7 8 Councilmember Carlson stated she would also like to know how the other cities feel 9 about merging with another organization. She also suggested property owners that are 10 affected be informed about the possible merger. 11 12 This item will appear on the regular Council agenda Monday, November 8, 2004, 6:30 13 p.m. 14 15 GROWTH MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AMENDMENT/CONSERVATION 16 DEVELOPMENT, JEFF SHOENBAUER, MICHAEL GROCHALA, JEFF 17 SMYSER 18 19 Community Development Director Grochala advised the City Council approved the 20 Parks, Natural Open Space/Greenways and Trail System Plan in August. The top priority 21 of the plan is the creation and preservation of greenways. This echoes the direction in the 22 comprehensive plan to establish greenway corridors. The main way to achieve this is the 23 use of conservation development. Conservation development is a means to achieve 24 higher public values than would be the case under a conventional development approach. 25 Toward this end, staff is proposing revisions to the growth management policy. The 26 spirit of the revisions is to encourage the type of development that meets the highest goals 27 of the Comprehensive Plan and the recently completed parks and open space plan. 28 29 Community Development Director Grochala referred to the proposed ordinance 30 amendment noting the two options: 31 32 • Option 1 would exempt conservation development from the growth restrictions. 33 That is, a conservation development would be subject to neither the annual 34 MUSA allocation limit (36 acres per year) nor the units restriction (147 per year 35 or 1029 total for Stage 1). 36 37 • Option 2 allows a conservation development to final plat lots/units two years in 38 advance of its approved phasing plan. That is, it would still have a phasing plan 39 but the number of lots/units in the phasing plans could be moved ahead by two 40 years. In effect, the first three years of units could be final planned in one year. 41 42 Community Development Director Grochala advised the Planning & Zoning Board held a 43 public hearing on the policy amendments on October 13. The Environmental Board 44 considered them on October 27. The Boards considered both of the amendment options. 45 Both Boards recommended approval of Option 1, exempting conservation development 46 from annual limits to give the City Council more discretion in approving housing above 47 the stipulated growth limits.