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Planning staff present large urban service area expansion requests that would add acreage and increase potential housing density
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Staff presented related privately initiated map amendments (HCCPA 26‑05 and 26‑06) to add ~190 acres to the urban service area and reclassify agricultural land to residential, which would require public water and sewer and raise potential residential density to about 380 units; commissioners asked for further review of infrastructure impacts.
Planning staff presented two linked privately initiated map amendments that would expand the urban service area and increase residential potential for roughly 190 acres in the South Shore planning area.
Lillian Linehan, planning commission staff, said HCCPA 26‑05 would bring approximately 190 acres into the urban service area, which would require future connections to public water and sewer. The companion amendment, HCCPA 26‑06, requests changing the future land use from Agricultural Rule 1 to 5 to Residential 2; staff said that change would raise the site’s theoretical maximum residential capacity from about 38 dwelling units under Agricultural Rule 1‑5 to roughly 380 dwelling units under Residential 2.
A commissioner urged colleagues to examine a recent planning commission chair letter and to study legacy infrastructure problems on Dorman Road, noting the road’s limited capacity for additional development and saying, "It's probably a good time for us to look at these that keep coming, figure out why, and figure out a way to do proper planning moving forward." Staff said they would return with additional information at the public hearing.
No action was taken at the workshop; both items were described as proceeding to the public hearing phase and staff signaled they will provide more detailed analyses on utilities, traffic and mapping.
