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MAR-18-'92 WED 13:55 ID: METROPOLITAN COUNCIL TEL NO:612 291 6558 #611 P02 "'^"~~--~~"- A METROPOLITAN COUNCIL OP THE TWIN CITIES AREA Mears Park Centre, 230 E. 5th St. St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 612-791-b359f rDD 29X-0404/F'AX 291.6550 DATE; March 13, 1992 TO: Metropolitan and Community Development Committee F1.t0117: Steven Schwanke, Research and Long Ran~o Plannzng STJBJECT: City of Falcon Yieights Comprehennsive Pian Amendr>dent Revised Comprehensive Plan lVtetropolitan Cauncil Referral File N'o. X5089.4 Metropolitan Council District No. 3 YNTR~DDUCT'ION The city of Falcon Heights has submitted a comprehensive plan amendment that updates the city's 1981 comprehensive plan. Elements included in this plan amendment are Land use, transportation, community facilities and services, environmental protection and economic development. RE~GI~NAI. POLYCY ISSUES Tho city of Falcon Heights has exceeded the sanitary sewer ilow range in the Councfl's Wastewater Treatment and Handling Policy Plan for the last three calendar years. This has not caused a capacity problem in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sewer System, nor is a capacity problem anticipated. Becau$e the city is virtually fully developed, staff assumes tha increased sanitary sewer flow is generated by the two major public uses in the city: the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota and the State Fairgrounds. The city cannot exercise its land use planning and authority over the University of Minnesota and the State Fairgrounds. Staff is recommending that the city prepare a Tier I and Tier ]~ sanitary sewer glare as a way to determine the source and volume of flows generated by the city, University of Minnesota and the State Fairgrounds. Tha city is also encouraged to continue with its efforts to reduce inFlow and in>zltration (IJ~ ist the Metropolitan Sanitary Sewer System. AU'T'I~ORITX TO REV~'V'Y The Metropolitan Land Use Planning A,ct of 1976 cequires local units o£ government to submit comprehensive plan amendments to the Metropolitan Council For review (Minn. Seat, 473.864, subd. 2, 1978). The Act also gives the Council the authority to establish guideiittos governing the • amendment review process (Minn. Seat. 473.854).