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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-03-10 work sessionMeeting Notes Planning Commission Work Session Thursday, June 3, 2010 Marion Conference Room The Planning Commission work session commenced at 6:43 p.m. in the Marion Conference Room at City Hall. Commissioners Present: Vice Chair Brooks Lillehei, Joe Blee, Karl Drotning, Jason Glad, Gerry Grenz, and Linda Maguire. Staff Present: Planning Director Daryl Morey, Associate Planner Allyn Kuennen, and Assistant City Engineer Zach Johnson. Vice Chair Lillehei opened the work session. MUSA Expansion Area A Studv Associate Planner Kuennen presented staff's study related to the timing of MUSA Expansion Area A and highlighted several points raised in the May 28, 2010 planning staff memo. He stated the City completed a similar study in 2005, the last time a five -year increment of land was brought into the current MUSA. The 2010 study includes an analysis of the number of single family lots and townhome units preliminary platted but not yet final platted, the number of approved final platted single family and townhome lots that have not yet been built upon, and the number of acres of undeveloped unplatted residentially zoned land located within the current MUSA. The analysis identifies an approximate 6 -7 year surplus of available single family lots and an 18 year surplus of attached and detached townhome units given the average absorption rates for single family homes and townhome units that occurred over the past 10 years. As such, staff will recommend to the City Council that MUSA Expansion Area A not be brought into the current MUSA in 2010 due to the large surplus of approved residential lots and undeveloped residentially zoned land in the current MUSA. A follow -up to this study will be completed in 2011 to determine if the surplus of residential lots /units and the absorption rates have reached a point where the opening of MUSA Expansion Area A is justified. The Planning Commission made the following comments: • Expressed concern about the effects that pushing out the timing of MUSA Expansion Area A may have on the timing of MUSA Expansion Area B, especially if the housing market continues to struggle for a few more years. • Asked if a process has been established for notifying the owners of land within MUSA Expansion Area A of the results of the study and staff's recommendation and for gauging the property owners' expectations regarding when their land might be brought into the current MUSA. Planning Commission Work Session June 3, 2010 • Asked if the City would consider bringing one property at a time from MUSA Expansion Area A into the current MUSA based upon the merits (public need) of a specific request. • Discussed the problems that have been experienced with attempts to extend trunk sanitary sewer from the Crossroads development across Cedar Avenue to serve the properties between Cedar and Highview avenues that are located within the current MUSA. • Stated that the 2011 update of the MUSA Expansion Area A timing study should also include an analysis of the commercial and industrial zoned properties located within MUSA Expansion Area A. The Planning Commission concurred with staff's recommendation not to bring MUSA Expansion Area A into the current MUSA in 2010 and to prepare a follow -up study in 2011 to include all property within MUSA Expansion Area A. The work session was adjourned at 7:13 p.m. pectfully submitted, "Plangnt Director 2