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and industrial development in this area is intended to support the financial viability of residential <br />development tzroughout the CitjT by making it possible to maintain municipal services without <br />increasing tapes. Although this is very long range planning, and Here are not yet tuuetables for <br />extending public utilites into tlis area to serve those future uses, tus is tlae vision of the <br />Comprehensive Plan and the Cit1J Council for tiffs area of the City. The SDA is also located <br />adjacent to tie future Highway 169/221" Avenue Interchange, which has great potential for future <br />commercial/industrial development. <br />20. The 2004 Comprehensive Plan was prepared with t1e assistance of the planning firm <br />of Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc.(HKGi). In anticipation of the proposed e~~pansion of tie <br />Landfill tie CitS~ retained HKGi to take a closer look at tze potential impacts of an expansion of tie <br />Landfill on the gravel ruining area of tze Cit~T. HKGi's report, the Norti Highway 169 Land Use <br />Study, dated November 10, 2008, identified a number of potential impacts related to an e~.pansion <br />of the Landfill and suggested land use, transportation and aesthetic strategies for addressing these <br />impacts. <br />21. Following receipt of t1e 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 subsequenty 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 t1e 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 potental significant impacts of Landfill expansion on <br />economic development in tiffs area of the City and on future tam revenues generated from the SDA <br />and the surrounding area. <br />S:\Resolutions\Reso]ut~Un_Denying_.:~pplicadon_fox_Comp_Plan_Amend_and_Rezoning Z.DOC <br />