Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/10/2014

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2. Overall Approach a. Focus on Business Park. The primary objective is to provide an area of the community to support ongoing employment growth. b. Impacts to Future Household Growth. A portion of the area proposed to be guided as Employment/Business Park for future private development is currently guided for MDR: Medium Density Residential and HDR: High Density Residential. This decision will likely have an impact the City's ability on the number of affordable housing units at or below 80% Area Median Income (AMI). The Comprehensive Plan Amendment will demonstrate the forecasted number of affordable housing units not achieved as an outcome of this land use decision. The Comprehensive Plan Amendment will address and identify other potential areas of the community where these housing units could be planned that are not part of the current Comprehensive Plan. The City will work with the Metropolitan Council as it relates to the City's Comprehensive Plan from a land use/forecast standpoint as well as from a participation in the Livable Communities Program standpoint. The City will also work with the Metropolitan Council to identify any opportunities to address this topic as part of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update (2015-2018) rather than directly as part of this Comprehensive Plan Amendment (2014). c. Areas Ruided for residential not directly impacted by Business Park proposaI. There are areas identified in the amendment area where it is proposed to remain residential, but the density is undefined. Until the City has a better understanding of the true residential market for the remaining areas currently guided for residential uses, the current Comprehensive Plan Amendment will not include an amendment to these areas. The City can react to additional Comprehensive Plan Amendments for future residential areas when a better understanding of the market is understood. d. Discuss relation to south side of Highway 10. The 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update identified an area south of Highway 10 as the primary focus as a future Business Park, actually identified as 'Office Park' in the Comprehensive Plan. This area was previously guided Residential. Through a series of land use review activities, the focus for a future business park has re -focused to the north side of Highway 10 (the intent/outcome of the exercise above). This Comprehensive Plan Amendment will review whether both areas (north and south of Highway 10) can serve as a business park, whether some areas south of Highway 10 should be guided as residential, or some combination thereof. The land use patterns of the area south of Highway 10 are likely to be impacted by the Highway 10 Access Planning Study (2013-2014) initiated by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT). A future extension of Riverdale Drive could serve as a buffer between a business park and residential uses south of Highway 10. Additionally, the planned alignment for the future river crossing has changed significantly for this area as part of the design of the Armstrong Interchange. The location agreed upon with the City of Dayton as to the crossing point of the river remains the same; however, the corridor through Ramsey has changed. e. Deliverables i. Revised Future Land Use Map. The foundation of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment is the Future Land Use Map. The Future Land Use Map guides what land use types are appropriate for future development and should be well grounded in the City's land use Guiding Principles for Armstrong West: Future Business Park Comprehensive Plan Amendment Page 3 of 5