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AttachmentD 2030RC ANALYSIS OF GOALS AND POLICIES IN OSEVILLE OMPREHENSIVE PLAN PR REPARED BY OSEVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF M-UAGP IXEDSE REA OALS AND OLICIES Goal 13: Improve the community’s mix of land uses by encouraging mixed medium- and high-density residential uses with high-quality commercial and employment uses in designated areas. The Community Development Department finds that the generalized goal has been applied to the zoning ordinance and is enforced through the table of uses and the specific standards throughout each commercial zoning district, specifically the Community Mixed Use District. The Community Development Department further finds that Twin Lakes is a designated area for retail development that is supported by this goal and the zoning ordinance. Policy 13.1: Facilitate the improvement, environmental remediation, and redevelopment of underutilized, heavy industrial land and trucking facilities in designated locations into a compatible mixture of residential and employment uses. The Community Development Department finds that any development within Twin Lakes will be required via the Alternative Urban Areawide Review to improve the property, remediate the contaminated soil, and reuse underutilized former trucking facilities, and that the area is planned for a mixture of uses. The Community Development Department further finds that a retail establishment of any type of size is not restricted, limited, or prohibited, by this policy. Policy 13.2: Develop and utilize master plans, as official controls, for redevelopment areas in order to achieve an appropriate mixture of uses in the mixed-use areas designated on the 2030 Future Land Use Map. The Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area does have a master plan that provides further guidance regarding redevelopment desires. Unfortunately, master plans do not have regulatory standing or authority, much like a comprehensive plan does not. The City Code, and specifically the Zoning Ordinance, is the only regulatory document that applies to the Twin Lakes Area. Specific to the Twin Lakes, the Twin Lakes Business Park Master Plan renewal strategy that was approved on June 26, 2001, provides more detailed guidance regarding mixed–use development as a vision for the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area. The document discusses big-box in one area and that is on Page 11 where big-box (and strip centers) are not recommended. The Community Development Department finds that the Twin Lakes Business Park Master Plan does not prohibit big-box use, it only recommends against it, and while a Walmart qualifies as a big-box, there have been no restrictions, limitations, or prohibitions established in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan or the Zoning Ordinance denying such a development from constructing in Twin Lakes. 1 Page11of27