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<br />City of Falcon Heights <br />Planning Commission <br />Date: 4/15/96 <br />Item: 7 <br />ITEM: Review and discussion on the city's comprehensive land use plan <br />SUBMITTED BY: Susan Hoyt, City Administrator <br />EXPLANATION/DESCRIPTION: <br />In 1991 the city adopted a new comprehensive land use plan. The plan guides and governs <br />the city's land use decisions. Fred Hoisington, of the Hoisington Koegler Group, worked <br />with the community to prepare the plan. He will provide the planning commission with <br />some background about the following: <br />• The legality of the comprehensive plan as a planning document for the city, especially <br />in a fully developed city. <br />• The process used to develop the comprehensive plan including what community <br />members valued in the community's physical landscape. <br />• What the plan generally outlines. <br />• The relevance of the Larpenteur Avenue streetscape and business district plan to the <br />comprehensive plan. <br />• Possible comprehensive plan updates and amendments. <br />• The relationship of the comprehensive plan to zoning. (The zoning in the business <br />district was amended following the adoption of the 1991 comprehensive plan.) <br />• The role of zoning and variances. <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />• Information and discussion with Fred Hoisington <br />