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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—September 28, 2009 5 S.A Approval of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update (continued) 2008, meeting where they authorized the release of the draft plan to the affected jurisdictions for comments. The affected jurisdictions completed their review in early December 2008 and the City Council gave preliminary approval to the Comprehensive Plan on December 15, 2008, and authorized submitting the Plan to the Metropolitan Council for review. The Metropolitan Council reviewed the Plan and requested changes to bring it into complete conformance with the system statement and regional policy plans. The requested changes were primarily technical in nature and none of the changes impacted the goals or policies approved by the City Council. Once the open questions were resolved, the Metropolitan Council declared the Plan complete on June 1, 2009. The requested changes were outlined in the memo to the Council. Councilmember Grant stated that Chapter 6: Land Use on page 2 and page 3 of the memo references minimum average density. He asked Community Development Director to explain this for the record. Community Development Director Lehnhoff stated that the Comprehensive Plan references the mixed residential category for the 2030 future land use map and this mixed residential category is what was applied for TCAAP. When the City was working on the Comprehensive Plan, the City was working with RRLD and the mixed use concept that was being looked at then. It was the intention that that would get refined further once the City had settled on a land use map. What the City had initially sent to the Metropolitan Council for the mixed residential category was an average density of 10.4 units per acre. This was based on the density discussion of the Council at that time. The Metropolitan Council made a request (and one of the requirements) was that they don't look for an average density but rather a range of densities. In this particular one Staff offered for them to review was "The anticipated average density is 10.4 unites per acre with a minimum average density of six units per acre up to a maximum density of 46 units per acre, though the density will vary on the property." It does go on to say that this land use is designated for the proposed TCAAP redevelopment, and the density is subject to change once a final land use plan is selected. The number 6 is in there for minimum average density because this is one of the implementation tools that the Met Council looks for in the affordable housing requirements. The City's target number for affordable housing is 288 units and the Met Council looks for enough acres to at least accommodate this. This is minimum average density so this does not mean that everything would be built at 6 units per acre. This does mean that parts of the property could be less than 6 units per acre because there was going to be other parts of the property that would potentially be at the 46 units per acre.