Placement: New Business
Action Requested: Discussion
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Hear Presentation of Planning and Infrastructure Study Analysis
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Submitted By: Mary Savage Dunham, Planning and Zoning Department
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Executive Summary (General Business): The Planning and Infrastructure Study was undertaken over the past year to have a current analysis of the fiscal impact of development to incorporate into the Comprehensive Plan update effort, and to support data driven decisions.
Presentation Information: Staff and the consultant team will provide a presentation.
Staff Recommendation: Request that the Council Hear and discuss the study, provide staff direction on the minimum land use ratio (residential v. commercial/industrial) in future voluntary annexations, and support a Comprehensive Plan text amendment to update annexation policies prior to the full update of the Comprehensive Plan.
Background: The City has not completed a full update of the comprehensive plan since 2012, and since that time there has been major economic shifts in the country, a pandemic, and an extraordinary acceleration of development activity and in-migration into the City. The state also changed the legislation around comprehensive planning and the City must now complete a plan for the 10 and 20 year planning period. Knowing that the full comp. plan amendment would be starting in 2024, the planning and infrastructure study was undertaken to have a current analysis of the fiscal impact of development on the city, project future roadway deficiencies that may result from projected development and inform staff on how the future land use element of the comprehensive plan should be revised relative to annexation policies to support the city's fiscal position.
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Special Consideration: Staff recommends a comprehensive plan text amendment to revise annexation policies be ...
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