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Forecasts The City requests a revision of its population, housholds, and employment forecast exceeding what is found in the Council's system statement (Tables 1-4, and 22-24). The employment forecast revision now requested has been previously discussed, found reasonable, and agreed to by Council staff. The population and hosueholds revision have not been previously agreed to. Council's concern is the several hundreds of households added during the 2030-2040 decade will be unserviced and reliant on private septic systems (Table 60). The land consumption entailed by rural, unsewered development is in competition with the City's growth goals inside the MUSA. The Plan is incomplete, awaiting an agreement on an acceptable forecast revision and sewer -serviced forecast. The City has updated its forecasted growth for Metropolitan Council consideration. The Land Use plan describes how land supply and staging accommodate forecasted growth. The City analayzes that the land supply within MUSA (1,204 acres guided) can accommodate 5,506 housing units at the midpoint of allowed density ranges (Tables 32-33). Council staff did not find a similar table for rural housing capacity. Table 60 describes a future increase in unsewered households, outside the MUSA. Council staff will reanalyze this after discussion of forecasts, as described above. The City has revised its forecasted growth for unsewered households. The Plan needs to include some measure of employment -bearing land use intensity. Acceptable measurements of intensity include Floor Area Ratio (FAR), or building footprint coverage, or jobs per acre, or setback and height restrictions. This has been updated and can be found under the header "Employment" within Chapter 02: Land Use Plan. The Tranportation Plan includes an allocation of the forecast to Transportation Analysis Zones (Table 41). The allocations may need to be revised pending an agreement on an acceptable forecast revision. Council staff will reanalyze this after discussion of the forecast issue, described above. The TAZ table has been updated accordingly. An updated map has been provided. The Plan needs to include a higher resolution Future Land Use map with narrower width parcel lines for better legibiliity.