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ity of iver MEMORANDUM Item # Mayor and City Council 6.13. FROM: Steve Ach, City Planner DATE: October 20, 1997 SUBJECT: Consider Comprehensive Plan Amendment to Adjust the Urban Service Boundary, Public Hearing Case No. OA 97-10 Issue The City of Elk River has initiated a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to consider adjusting the urban service boundary in the eastern part of Elk River. The specific area under consider is bordered by County Road No. 12 on the north, Tyler Street alignment on the west, 175ch Avenue on the south and Fillmore Street on the east. Attachments · Report to the Planning Commission dated September 30, 1997 Overview The area to be considered for inclusion into the urban service area currently lies outside of the boundary and is zoned Rla (Single Family Residential). Under the current zoning the property could be developed without city services into lots with a minimum lot size of 2-1/2 acres. With having the subject area located adjacent to the existing urban service boundary and consisting of a majority of large undeveloped tracts of land, staff has analyzed the possibility of having this area included as ultimately being developed with urban services. As the Council is aware, the platting of 2-1/2 acres subdivisions often creates a boundary or barrier to the feasible and practical extensions of city sewer and water. With the known and inevitable development interest in eastern Elk River, it is easy to assume given the opportunity, the proposed area to included in the urban service boundary would develop at some point in time under urban densities. 13065 Orono Parkway * P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425