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36 category. During the period between the last Steering Committee meeting and the 37 Planning Commission hearing, several Steering Committee members worked 38 together to revise the Community Business future land use definition in hopes of 39 bringing a resolution to this issue. The revised definition includes 100,000 square 40 feet as a building footprint guideline, but would allow for buildings to exceed that if 41 they were subject additional design requirements. They presented their revised 42 definition in the letter cited above. One Committee member spoke against the 43 100,000-square-foot building size restriction in the definition. 44 45 46 47 48 49 2.2.4 Master Plans: Four Steering Committee members prepared a memorandum to the Planning Commission recommending that all current and future land use master plans be adopted into the Comprehensive Plan. One Steering Committee member and one resident spoke on behalf of this position. 50 2.3 On October 13, 2008, the City Council took up the matter of releasing the draft Plan to 51 neighboring and affected units of government and special districts. Meeting minutes from 52 this meeting are attached to this memorandum in Attachment C. The City Council made two 53 modifications to the draft forwarded by the Planning Commission. These modifications 54 included changing the future land use designation for the HarMar Mall to Community 55 Business, and adding language to the land use implementation strategies regarding parkland 56 and the need for parkland in Planning District 14. 57 58 2.4 The following table identifies modifications made to the draft Comprehensive Plan by both 59 the Planning Commission and City Council. 60 i i ' � i i i i i i i Cha ter 4: Land Use Pg. 4-2 Under Goal #1 of the General Land Use Goals and Policies, removed tl�at clause `...as well as the crearion of community gathering spaces" to make it read better. Pg. 4-3 Removed policy 5.3 of the Land Use Cl�apter as they felt it was redundant and similar with policy 5.4. Pg. 4-4 Based on comments by the City Attorney, Pg 4-22 modified language in policy 13 2 under the Land Use Cl�apter (Ch 4) to now read "Develop and utilize master plans, as official controls, for redevelopment areas in order to achieve an appropriate miature of uses in the mixed-use areas designated on the 2030 Future Land Use Map".; and under the discussion of Planning District 10 in the Land Use Chapter, amending the language to now read "The City � intends to relv on the following official controls and environmental studies to guide land use and to evaluate specific proposals." i i ' � i i i i i i i 2 of 6 012609 Approval of 2030 Comprehensive Plan