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Future City of Gem Lake Land Use thru the year 2030 <br />In order to guide use in subsequent decades, the City of Gem Lake has prepared a future <br />land use plan. The plan brings together goals, policies and recommendations for future <br />land use, and is intended to assist with decision making on a going -forward basis. <br />Acreages for future land uses within Gem Lake are identified in Table 2-1. Although <br />Gem Lake covers a total of 725 acres, only 653.6 is reflected in the table below. The <br />difference is acreage is consumed by roadways. <br />Table 2-1 Future Land Use Acreage Breakdnwn <br />Land Use CategoEy <br />Acres <br />Single Family Residential <br />128.3 <br />Single Family Executive <br />213.4 <br />Single Family Estate <br />148.1 <br />Gateway & Village Center Use (Mixed <br />use <br />91.7 <br />Open Space <br />6.2 <br />Recreational Open Space <br />63.0 <br />Public/Institutional <br />2.9 <br />TOTAL <br />winrtr. <br />653.6 <br />ua,aucc ' '" tout rta acres inat maKe up the City of Gem Lake are used for roads or occupied by the surface of <br />Gem Lake and other water bodies and wetlands in the city. <br />Future Land Use Classifications <br />Residential development will remain the primary land use with the City of Gem Lake. <br />The land for residential development is broken down into 3 main catagories: <br />Single Family Estate <br />This planning area within the City of Gem Lake encompasses most of the interior <br />residential land area in the City, located around the water body called Gem Lake. The <br />minimum lot size in this planning area is 3 acres, but most of the existing "estates" are <br />located on land parcels much larger than 3 acres. All but one of the parcels mapped as <br />"Estate" are built upon and are not expected to subdivide or develop within the planning <br />period. This plan transfers land from the least dense land category to classification that <br />allow denser develop. However, it is important to note that this plan does not project or <br />assume any change in the existing pattern of development on these properties. <br />Single Family Executive <br />Roughly 33 percent of the total land area of the City is comprised of "Single Family <br />Executive" land uses. "Single Family Executive" land uses are found primarily in the <br />City of Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan i page 5-5 <br />