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and industrial development in this area is intended to support the financial viability of residential <br />development throughout the City by making it possible to maintain municipal services without <br />increasing taxes. Although this is very long range planning, and. there are not yet timetables for <br />extending public utilities into this area to serve those future uses, this is the vision of the <br />Comprehensive Plan and the City Council for this area of the City. The SDA is also located <br />adjacent to the future Highway 169/2215L Avenue Interchange, which has great potential for future <br />commercial/industrial development. <br />20. The 2004 Comprehensive Plan was prepared with the assistance of the planning firm <br />of Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc.(HKGi). In anticipation of the proposed expansion of the <br />Landfill the City retained HKGi to take a closer look at the potential impacts of an expansion of the <br />Landfill on the gravel mining area of the City. HKGi's report, the North Highway 169 Land Use <br />Study, dated November 10, 2008, identified a number of potential impacts related to an expansion <br />of the Landfill and suggested land use, transportation and aesthetic strategies for addressing these <br />impacts. <br />21. Following receipt of the Application to expand the Landfill, the City retained HKGi <br />to take a closer look at the immediate area which would be potentially impacted by a Landfill <br />expansion and to analyze the potential financial and fiscal impacts on the City of an expansion of the <br />Landfill. HKGi's report on these issues is dated June 2, 2009, was subsequently updated on June 15, <br />2009, and was updated again on September 8, 2009, following submission by ERL of its revised plan <br />for expansion of the Landfill. (The HKGi November 10, 2008, June 6, 2009, June 15, 2009 and <br />September 8, 2009 reports are hereafter collectively referred to as the "HKGi reports".) <br />22. The HKGi reports project potential significant impacts of Landfill expansion on <br />economic development in this area of the City and on future tax revenues generated from the SDA <br />and the surrounding area. <br />8 <br />