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I I I Council Meeting Minutes April 26, 1988 Benke stated all the city would have to do is construct the ball- field; Johnson confirmed that statement. Benke asked if Johnson had looked at the project's impact on adjacent parcels, indicating his concern is developing a total neighborhood with two large blocks that are void at this time. Johnson stated the park would act as a transition between a land use that could occur on 27th Street (across from 27th is office space at this time); zoning anticipates there would be transition and would not see it as a problem; the Planning Commission asked Harstad Companies to meet with those property owners to see if there is any avenue of causing a street to happen within a reason- able time-frame; hopes to have those conversations by the time Harstad Companies comes back with the preliminary plat. Johnson stated the density calculations were made only on land owned by Harstad Companies. Locke stated PRO calculations exclude land used for streets, park land, or other undevelopable purpose. Benke stated we arB not granting bonus units because there happens to be five acres of city-owned land; Locke confirnled that state- ment. Johnson stated It was developed so the standard lot size could be made a little smaller. Benke stated the extra density may add to our traffic problems at Palmer Drive and Silver Lake Road; and may require a rezoning which may be a more straightforward and realistic approach. Johnson has done some traffic estimates based on 43 single family homes, 14 townhouses, and 96 apartment units; calculates an addi- tional 800-1000 trips per day on the three roads that serve the area. Johnson indicated there is a third option for the service road to connecting to Silver Lake Road to spread the traffic; building all single-family units would not drop traffic to less than 500 trips per day; north bound would have to come out at Palmer Drive (southbound could use the road by Minar Ford). In response to Benke's question, Johnson indicated the proposed concept plan will serve middle to above-middle rental units (two- adult household and empty nesters, with limited young households); preliminary analysis points to two-adult household. Benke indicated his concern is for the types of trips for the renters (empty nester would probably have one car, versus two cars for the two-adult household), and suggested a discussion with the city's consultant would be helpful. Page 16