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CITY OF SHAKOPEE
Memorandum
CASE NO.: 05-053
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
Mark McNeill, City Administrator
FROM: R. Michael Leek, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Draft Growth Management Policy
MEETING DATE: September 20, 2005
REVIEW PERIOD: N.A.
INTRODUCTION:
On August 16, 2005 the Council directed staff to do the following;
. Determine whether there were ways to link the draft growth management policy and residential
project scoring guide, and
. To seek the Planning Commission's recommendation regarding linking the growth
management policy and project scoring guide.
On September 8,2005 the Planning Commission reviewed the two drafts, and a copy of the staffreport
is attached for the Council's information.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Approve the draft Growth Management Policy as presented.
2. Approve the draft Growth Management Policy with revisions.
3. Do not approve the draft Growth Management Policy;
4. Do not approve the .draft Growth Management Policy, but, as a part of the 2008 Comprehensive
Plan Update (required by the Metropolitan Land Planning Act) develop a more specific
development phasing plan that identifies more precisely when lands would be available for
sewered development.
5. Adopt the draft Growth Management Policy, but apply the Growth Management Policy only to
developments where the developer has opted to seek approval of a project despite the threshold
points not having been achieved under the Project Scoring Guide. Where the developer has
submitted to the Project Scoring Guide, and has agreed not to move a project forward without
first attaining the threshold points for a positive staff recommendation, the project would be
exempted from the Growth Management Policy. The net potential impact of this relationship is
that, so long as a developer works within the project pointing process, the cap on lot creation is
effectively removed for any development that receives a positive recommendation.
PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
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On September 8, 2005 the Planning Commission recommended alternative no. 4, i.e.
1. do not implement the draft Growth Management Policy,
2. as a part of the 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update (required by the Metropolitan Land Planning
Act) develop a more specific development phasing plan that identifies more precisely when
lands would be available for sewered development.
ACTION REQUESTED:
Based on the Planning Commission recommendations, do not approve the draft Growth Management
Policy, but, offer and approve a motion directing staff, as a part of the 2008 Comprehensive Plan
Update (required by the Metropolitan Land Planning Act), develop a more specific development
phasing plan that identifies more precisely when lands would be available for sewered development.
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R. Michael Leek
Community Development Director
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