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• • ■ • • Guiding Principles and Objectives were moved from Chapter 3 of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan to corresponding chapters. This should make it easier to relate the content to the objectives. • The Parks, Trails, and Open Space Chapter was re -organized and developed to emphasize more specific locational criteria. • Neighborhood Park Service Areas were evaluated and re -defined to correspond more accurately to future land use populations. • The Housing Chapter was updated to reflect the required affordable housing goals. • A Resiliency Chapter was added to the Comprehensive Plan. • The Water Supply Chapter was updated to reflect the recent ruling on White Bear Lake. • The Transportation Chapter was updated to ensure consistency with the Parks, Trails, and Open Space plan as well as reviewed to ensure that roads would serve the future population. Land use categories and associated densities did not change in this update, except that the Mixed Use category is required to have a minimum and maximum density to ensure that goals for affordable housing and overall minimum density goals for the City are met. Staff reviewed key study areas to determine if changes were necessary. The following is a summary of the study areas reviewed and discussed at the August 10, 2017 Planning Commission Meeting: Mixed Use District The 2030 Comprehensive Plan identified three distinctive Mixed Use District areas, however, it did not provide distinctions on the types of development that the City would like to see in each district. • Update: Staff updated the text to provide more direction about the type of development that is desirable for each district. Text focuses on creating gateways for the City, emphasizes contextual transitions between land uses and surrounding districts, and responds to the transportation characteristics of each District. Metropolitan Council requires that development occur at an average density of 3 units per acre within the MUSA. As part of the update, staff reviewed densities to ensure that this requirement was met. Update: The Metropolitan Council requires that communities define minimum and maximum densities and the mix of residential, commercial, and industrial development within Mixed Use Districts. These parameters were not explicitly defined in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. Staff reviewed several land use scenarios to determine how to best meet the affordable housing and average density goals defined by the Metropolitan Council. Staff determined that providing a minimum density of 10 units per acre and maximum density of 60 units per acre in the Mixed Use district, and requiring that 50% of mixed use development be residential is consistent with the policies of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. Planning Commission - 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update December 21. 2017