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Fr- 800% 8 9 JUN 22 1993 Bill Wodtke, 6325 lst Street S.W., formerly a County Commissioner, quoted the following excerpt from staffs 'memo: Need for USA Expansion and Land Use Redesignation In order to efficiently and economically expand the county utilities system to serve approved development, density along programed and existing lines must be increased. The most feasible action to increase density along now lines is to allow development on both sides of roads that serve as USA boundaries to connect to the system and to redesignate land adjacent to lines. TO Accomplish this the USA must be expanded. of particular itkl?ortance with this request Is the impact of the land use change oft the county's residential allocation ratio. A residential allocation ratio is the measure of total residential units Allowed uftdGk the land use plan compared to the number of residential units ftected. to be needed through the plan's planning horleon based oft 06pulation projections. The following formula in used to calculate the residential allocation ratios Mr. Wodtke presumed that the only reason f or this proposed change is because the County wants to expand utilities. He understood that the County wants to extend utilities to the commercial nodes to encourage business and employment, but there are no developers requesting utilities. He also pointed out that policy 1.37 requires that we must reduce the urban service area by 3200 acres in other parts of the county if we add the proposed 3200 acres. Mr. Wodtke also felt this redesignation could be considered an increase of urban sprawl. Michael Zeigler, 3375 12th Street, representing property north of 26th Street between 82nd and 90th Avenues, opposed the proposed land use changes and urged the Board not to transmit the amendment. He contended that priority has been shifted from the Comprehensive Land Use Plan For the Year 2010 to the Master Utility Plan which was presented to the Board on March 30 by Brown and Caldwell. The Master Utility Plan enumerated $154 million worth of utility projects which would be triggered by certain events. Mr. Zeigler argued that the trigger events have not been satisfied in any of the elements. The residential allocation ratio is not a real problem and we have excess capacity both in water and wastewater treatment. He quoted from the Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37 as follows: 26