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City Council Meeting Minutes August 31, 2021 Page 9 of 14 Councilmember Leh supported Councilmember Brown's suggestion Councilmember Fahey stated she supported the condition as written as there are other things in the conditions such as requiring electrification and EV charging station that will get us to where we want to be on sustainability. The consensus of the majority was to keep the condition as proposed. Condition #4 The Public land dedication shall be increased to 83.7 acres of land with the recently added 20.3 acres of publicly dedicated Open Space be located around the pond in Parcel C and contiguous to currently identified Open Space in Parcel A. Mayor Stolzmann asked to include "land intended to be open natural land to be zoned as Open Space on dedication." Councilmember Brown proposed requiring everything north of Disc Drive as open space. Councilmember Leh stated he does not support everything north of Disc Drive as open space but he does feel additional land should be dedicated as open space due to the impact of this development. Mayor Pro Tem Maloney stated the 83.7 acres currently proposed is a good compromise and the area represents purposeful open space including the pond. He supports this. Councilmember Dickinson stated that asking for 160 acres is probably not reasonable as it is 52% of the property. 83 acres is 25% of the area and when you add the undeveloped areas of the property that are not a part of the public dedication it is close to the 30%. He stated he would like to get to 93 acres which would be about 30%. Mayor Stolzmann supported 93 acres as it relates to the public dedication and impact on the community. She would like to see the development clustered together south of Disc Drive to keep the area north of Disc Drive undeveloped so as to keep this area feeling rural like its rural designation. That would also make the land dedication meaningful and protect the view corridor. Without that clustering and keeping the area north of Disc Drive open she stated she can't support this condition. Councilmember Brown agreed with Mayor Stolzmann that this would protect the area the best. He suggested a proposal that no building be allowed north of Disc Drive. Councilmember Lipton stated he doesn't think the Executive Order for 30% open spaces applies to local land use decisions and it is a Federal Order and an intrusion on local land use decisions. The municipal code requires 12% public land dedication and the applicant is offering twice that. He is concerned about setting precedents for other property owners. However, he is interested in clustering the building to optimize the undeveloped areas and meet some of our other goals.