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especially because of the fact that the City does have a cap on its sewer capacity, linking housing to jobs, and providing the opportunity for a partnership between non-profit and for-profit market rate housing organizations. Commissioner Blank questioned if the City has other infrastructure capacities that have not been identified, such as electrical, traffic, or fresh water capacities. Mr. Dolan replied that both staff and the Growth Management Subcommittee have started to brainstorm on those issues because losing the housing cap and having these rezoning are quite a change over what has been done recently. He noted that the City has a new situation and the needs to explore its existing ordinance, and also in the context of the lawsuits and the outcome of those lawsuits. Mr. Dolan stated that with respect to traffic, the City has level-of-service standards it uses which will not necessarily change. He noted, however, that the one that keeps coming up is sewer because there is a finite capacity with the current infrastructure. He indicated that staff wants to be sure and be very accurate about how far out into the future the sewer capacity actually becomes a problem. He noted that it is not an immediate problem; the City has not gotten to that point, and it will not be in the next ten years, and might not be in the next ten years after that. He stated, however, that the City does have a finite amount and has to plan accordingly for some future finite limit. He added that in the not too distant future, the City will have a public dialogue with respect to how far it is, based on certain growth rates the City anticipates. He indicated that this is why a lot of these comments and suggestions are being recommended by staff to be referred to the Growth Management Subcommittee as it must be a part of the conversation. Mr. Dolan stated that he wanted to reassure Ms. Dennis that the affordable housing component of the Growth Management conversation will most definitely be included. He indicated that Steve Bocian runs the City's housing program and is one of senior staff persons in the Subcommittee, and the Councilmembers themselves are very tuned in to this issue as well. He noted that some of the suggestions made are quite specific and make assumptions about what the outcome of the Growth Management Subcommittee will be, and since the Subcommittee is not quite there yet, it is difficult to deal with specific wording of policies and programs. He added that he thinks themes will be incorporated, but it seems premature to get that specific at this point, and that is why staff has asked that these be forwarded to the Subcommittee. Commissioner Pearce requested Mr. Dolan to talk about the Growth Management Subcommittee because a lot of people do not know what it is, what it does, and what its timeline is. Commissioner Olson requested Mr. Dolan to discuss its composition as well. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2011 Page 11 of 33