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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 17, 2019 Page 23 The Council concurred. Councilmember Willmus thought the area around Rice and South Owasso should be updated as well. Ms. Purdue indicated Council changes can be made to the Land Use map. Councilmember Laliberte indicated she has long been an advocate for those op- portunity areas described and really pushed for engagement with the communities around those areas, Har Mar being one of them and on this BRT stop. She has a big problem with making a change now outside of the process the City had. She asked what happens if the Council does not approve this overlay because those stops with the BRT were chosen with the exact density that exists today and it was still a good decision to put that stop there. Ms. Purdu believed the Met Council will come back with that being a require- ment, would not recommend approval of the plan, and that would put the City in a situation much like some of the other cities last time around that did not get their plan approved. It would be a hinderance to redevelopment per some of the other districts because those districts would be in conflict with the City's 2030 plan. The redevelopment within the Mixed-Use Districts that have been set up that did not exist last time. Mayor Roe asked about the minimum number of residential units per acre prior to the BRT was overlay in those very areas. Ms. Purdue indicated it was ten in the community mixed use, thirteen in the corri- dor mixed use, and thirteen in high density residential areas as well. Mr. Lloyd stated there are no developers that come in and ask what the minimum number of units would be allowed to build. The minimum is sort of an irrelevant number for the most part from what he has seen. Ms. Purdu explained the overlay would only impact those identified as redevel- opment sites. Councilmember Laliberte agreed with Mr. Lloyd's observation that developers are more concerned with the maximum number or units and not the minimum number but because the single-family houses were taken out of that, she still be- lieved the people in that area have been very reluctant to other changes that have been proposed at that mall. Without the process of having residents understand that this is a change the City is making after there has been a process, she has concerns and thought the only alternative would be to not identify that as a rede- velopment area.