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PUD Amendment Report Building N April 26, 2004 Page 2 Comprehensive Plan. In addition to the significant discussion surrounding the “zoning” of the Building N property, there remains the issue of the Comprehensive Plan. Comprehensive Plans are guiding documents that provide the framework for land use and development in a city. The land use designation for the Building N site is “Light Industrial” which is defined as follows: “Land used primarily in the manufacture, processing, fabrication, assembly, packaging, incidental storage, sales, and distribution of predominantly previously prepared materials, finished products or parts. Light industrial uses would typically have all processing within buildings, require limited exterior storage, generate limited amounts of truck traffic, and be free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, glare or other pollutants. Examples include greenhouses, food and drink processing plants and storage, light manufacturing and assembly, small machine and tool and die shops, flex industrial centers, mini-warehouses, and research and development facilities.” Churches, along with educational uses, governmental activities, hospitals and others, are included with the “Institutional” designation. Service Fund. BBC has approved an annual $25,000 Mounds View Service Project Fund as a means to formalize its commitment to the Mounds View community. The fund would be used to support projects or activities consistent with BBC’s mission and values. BBC proposes a joint committee to oversee the fund consisting of an equal number of city and church representatives. This committee would determine what projects or activities would be funded, and in the event that a consensus could not be reached, BBC indicates that a default project or activity could be identified for funding. BBC has been in contact with the YMCA, the school district and other service organizations in the community and is preparing a list of “needs” that others have identified, however because the church does not yet have a full understanding of these needs, they propose that the City simply identify items noted in the Park Needs Analysis report for funding. BBC also proposes to increase their contribution to this fund by 2% each year such that in ten years the annual balance would grow to $30,000. It should be noted that the church reserves the right to make contributory adjustments to this fund if community or church circumstances change significantly. This means the fund could be increased or decreased at their discretion. Economic Development Donation. As discussed at the April 12th meeting, BBC remains committed to providing the City with a $5,000 “gift” in recognition of the administrative fees that would be lost if the church bought the building. It would be the church’s desire to have those dollars expended to support economic development activity in the City, and to that end, staff suggested that the dollars be placed in the EDA fund. Similar to the Service Project Fund, BBC would increase this amount by 2% each year. While it is our understanding that the Service Project Fund would be maintained in perpetuity, the Economic Development contribution would terminate in the year 2014.