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As noted above, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of the proposal to 17 -Density 18 Residential (LR) to High-Density Residential (HR). Such a vote requires a five-sevenths majority 19 to be successful, and this was achieved by the 6 1 vote when the action was taken on April 6, 20 2016. The draft resolution to amend the Comprehensive Land Use Plan is included with this 21 RCA as Exhibit C. 22 An action to change the Comprehensive Plan cannot be considered final until the amendment is 23 accepted by the Metropolitan Council, which means that final action to rezone the subject 24 property to HDR-1 would be premature if it were to occur concurrently with the action to 25 approve the CPA. In recognition of this procedural fact, the proposed rezoning will be discussed 26 in this RCA for the sake of putting all of the proposed changes in context with one another, 27 although subsequent City Council action to rezone the subject property cannot occur unless and 28 until the Metropolitan Council has accepted the CPA. 29 SPZMC UMMARY OF THE ROPOSED ONING AP HANGE 30 The fundamental question with this application is whether the requested HR designation in the 31 Comprehensive Plan is a suitable choice for this location. If the City Council concurs with the 32 Planning Commission that HR is a good fit and approves the CPA, State statute requires that a 33 34 that rezoning the subject parcel to one of the HDR zoning districts would be a technical necessity 35 to comply with the pertinent statute. Therefore, approval of the proposed CPA would make it 36 appropriate for the City Council to approve the requested rezoning to HDR-1 District. Rezoning 37 to the more intensive HDR-2 District would also be an option, but it is not being requested it has 38 not been evaluated in the traffic analysis 39 40 of the CPA makes it impossible for the City to take action on the rezoning request by the April 41 30, 2016 deadline, and therefore extends the deadline for action on the rezoning request for 60 42 days after the Metropolitan Council completes its review of the CPA. 43 Alternatively, if the City Council sees fit to deny the CPA, it would also be appropriate to deny 44 the proposed rezoning at this time. 45 PC UBLIC OMMENT 46 The public hearing for the proposed Comprehensive Plan and zoning amendments was held by 47 the Planning Commission on January 6, 2016; minutes of the public hearing are included with 48 this RCA as part of Exhibit A. To accommodate the request for a traffic study, the Planning 49 Commission voted to table the discussion of the proposed amendment until a later date. Having 50 received the traffic study report, the discussion was resumed on April 6, 2016; after discussing 51 the application in the context of the traffic report the Planning Commission voted to recommend 52 approval of the proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code. At the time 53 this report was prepared, Planning Division staff has received one additional email, which is 54 included with this RCA as the last page of Exhibit B. 55 RA ECOMMENDED CTION 56 14.f PF16-001_RCA_20160425 (002) Page 3 of 4