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• of which could be utilized toward this process. This grant could be matched with unallocated block grant funds and/or planning funds within the existing budget ($25,000 is within the budget for storm water planning and $2,500 is in the Council budget for team building). Given this, it appears that there is funding capacity to provide for at least a large portion, if not all of the project. At the last meeting, staff provided a spreadsheet detailing the premise that our zoning activity post comprehensive plan updates was minimal. It now appears that there were significant errors in that document. Attorney Goodrich has determined that, in addition to rural and commercial platting, there have been fifty-seven urban residential plats approved since 1980. Of those, forty- two have been rezoned prior to completion of the final plat (from either a rural or a business designation). Four more have been rezoned after final plat approval and eleven have not been rezoned. Of the eleven, seven resulted from the 1989 expansion of the Metropolitan Urban Service District (MUSA) and four more resulted from the 1995 MUSA expansion. Of those rezoned after final plat approval, all were within the original MUSA. As a result of the zoning issue confusion, at least a few improvements in procedure need to be made. The first, already in process, is to amend our land use application form to require not only a statement as to the zoning of a particular parcel but to also include the ordinance number that provides for that zoning. The second is to add a rezoning component to the Comprehensive Plan process so that approval of a Comprehensive Plan includes, as a corollary action, adoption of an ordinance and zoning map effecting the contemplated changes (contingent upon Metropolitan Council approval). Third, we need to provide for adoption by Council of a new zoning map at this time and would ask that Council direct that this process be initiated. Finally, we would ask the Planning Commission Task Force, currently working on Chapter Nine of the City Code, to also review the issue of rural versus urban designations and performance issues related to both. Council Action: Motion to adopt Ordinance #97-XX placing a moratorium against residential property development. Roll Call Vote - and - Motion to direct that staff provide a recommendation for a comprehensive planning process, funding, and consulting assistance by the April 22, 1997 Council meeting or earlier if possible. - and - Motion to direct that staff provide direction as necessary regarding zoning activities pursuant to the above discussion. - and -