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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 20, 2010 Page 8 Councilmember Ihlan suggested that those properties, needing further identifica- tion, remain POS and be removed from consideration of this action. Councilmember Ihlan further questioned the rationale in other residential proper- ties currently designated POS being revised as LDR, even if they currently had a home on them, but were guided for future POS. Mr. Paschke noted that the POS designation was created more recently, and that a number of the parcels being revised were inconsistencies carried over from past Comprehensive Plans and Zoning Districts, and had been guided incorrectly or never identified. Mr. Paschke noted changed in State Law and whether the Com- prehensive Plan or Zoning Code controlled and guided uses; and current law for the Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan to be in conformity. Councilmember Ihlan opined that the properties should remain POS until and un- less the property owner requested an expansion of their homes or other improve- ments, at which time the City Council could consider going forward for rezoning and/or land use designation amendment at that time. Councilmember Ihlan spoke in opposition to changing current land use designation from POS to Residential. City Attorney Bell-Beckman noted that those properties, based on changes in State Statute over the last ten years, were in conflict, as they presently stood. Mr. Trudgeon noted that the parcels had been zoned single-family residential for a long time; but that the distinction now was that, with parcels designated in the Comprehensive Plan as POS but zoned as R-1, the parcels were now in conflict with State law and needed to become consistent. Mr. Paschke advised that the ability to preserve POS for future use was not being taken away, but would be imbedded in the Parks Master Plan within the Compre- hensive Plan. In responding to Councilmember Ihlan's concern in preserving parcels for future parks, Mayor Klausing observed that the City would follow similar land acquisi- tion steps as currently done; further noting that acquisition of land around Lang- ton Lake would be for a pathway, and not require acquisition of entire parcels. Further discussion included parcels along County Road C and their zoning as Community Mixed Use and/or Medium Density and their potential for future de- velopment. Mr. Paschke provided a response on staff's research for Councilmember Pust's previous query to clarify the zoning in the previous Comprehensive Plan on the property on page 34; advising that in the previous 1979/1980 Comprehensive