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forecasted growth. <br />Council policy requires some measure of employment -bearing land use intensity. The. City <br />provides impervious surface and building coverage rates in table.5.4. <br />The Council requires 2020, 2030, and 2040 forecasts assigned transport analysis zones, or <br />portions of TAZs within the city boundaries. This is found in table 6.4;.TAZ allocations summarize <br />to the city total. <br />Chapter 7 includes a discussion of sewer -serviced forecast and an accompanying table (table 7.5) <br />consistent with the Council's System Statement. <br />Advisory Comments <br />Employment in Gem Lake has not grown as was previously projected; local employers have <br />reduced their employment. Council staffadvise that the City could request a lower employment <br />forecastwith afuture amendment; if desired. <br />The forecast of sewer -serviced households and employment (Platt table 7.5) shows 110 <br />households, 280 population, and worksites with 150 employees remain outside of the.wastewater <br />system (and utilizing SSTS) throughoutthe forecast period. The sewer -serviced. forecast can be <br />adjusted in a future amendment if the City expects more households.to transition to public sewer <br />service. <br />Thrive MSP 2040 and Land Use. <br />Reviewer. Jake Reilly, CD -- Local Planning Assistance (651-602-1822) <br />The Plan is consistent with. Thrive MSP 2040 (Thrive) and its land use policies. The Plan <br />acknowledges the Thrive community designation of Suburban (Figure 2). Thrive describes <br />Suburban communities as those that experienced their primary era of development during the <br />1980s and early 1.990s as Baby Boomers formed families and entered their prime earning years. <br />Suburban communities are expected to plan for forecasted population and.household growth at <br />overall average densities of at least five units per acre, and target opportunities for more intensive <br />development near regional transit investments at densities and in a manner articulated in the TPP, <br />Plans are also required to identify areas for redevelopment; particularly areas that are well -served <br />by transportation options and nearby amenities and that contribute to.better proximity between jobs <br />and housing. <br />13 The existing pattern of development in Gem Lake is one of primarily single-family homes, nearly <br />E] 90-percent of which are own er-occupied. A small portion of the City known as "Hoffman's Corner" <br />located in and around the U.S. Highway 61 /County Road E intersection is the business. center of <br />® the City. The City envisions this area in the Plan for redeve lopment as a mixed -use area with an <br />approximately 50150 residential/commercial mix, in four mixed -use land use categories, as shown <br />on Table 2. <br />Table 2. Planned Residential Density, City of Gem Lake <br />.2018-2040 Change <br />.......:.,.: <br />:.::.:..:..:..... <br />Max> <br />Net'Acres r' <br />i s-iiMa <br />. Mini Un i <br />Lfriits' <br />Neighborhood Edge* <br />1 2.9 <br />1 <br />1 <br />2. <br />Neighborhood General <br />3 4.9. <br />17 <br />51 <br />83 <br />Neighborhood Mixed** <br />5 7.9 <br />2 <br />10 <br />15. <br />Neighborhood Central' <br />8 1.2 <br />14 <br />1.12 <br />168 <br />*10% residential <br />"25% residential <br />*"30% residential <br />me <br />