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CITY OF LINO LAKES ORDINANCE NO. 01-03 ORDINANCE CREATING A GROWTH MANAGEMENT POLICY The City Council of Lino Lakes hereby ordains: Section 1 Findings The Lino Lakes City Council makes the following findings: 1. The City of Lino Lakes adopted a comprehensive plan that includes goals and policies to guide planning and the growth of the city. 2. Managing growth through the orderly provision of infrastructure and other means promotes the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan. It is in the best interests of the public to create rational, cost effective means of managing growth so that it will be orderly, efficient, and environmentally sound. 3. Unplanned growth does not meet community needs and is injurious to the public health, safety, and welfare. Inadequately planned growth has created and may create or aggravate negative conditions such as: a. overburdened public facilities b. underutilized public facilities resulting in wasteful investment of public resources c. an inadequate variety of housing choices that does not meet community needs d. environmentally detrimental development projects and patterns 4. The comprehensive plan establishes future land uses, staged growth areas, growth goals, and a Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) reserve for the city. 5. The Stage 1 growth area is the geographic limit for growth prior to year 2010. The Stage 2 area is for growth from 2010 to 2020. 6. The MUSA reserve obtained with the comprehensive plan includes 359 acres for Stage 1, and 909 acres for Stage 2. The MUSA reserve also includes a balance of 15.7 acres designated for residential use left over from the 1995 MUSA reserve. The total Stage 1 MUSA reserve therefore is 374.7 acres. 7. There is undeveloped land within the existing MUSA. 8. A growth management policy is necessary, in addition to official controls such as the zoning and subdivision ordinances, to implement the comprehensive plan and promote the public health, safety, and welfare.