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a later date in conjunction with other materials, to surrounding communities and eventually to the Metropolitan Council for their required review and evaluation process. Upon completion of the Metropolitan Council's review, the plan would be returned to Little Canada and modified as desired by the community for formal adoption by the City Council. The Development Framework would be presented as part of a consolidated document encompassing an issues summary, detailing findings of the inventory process, the final policy plan and the concept plan. In total, this document would represent Little Canada's basic comprehensive pion. TASK IV - DETAILED FACILITIES PLAN. Although typically approached to some degree in past comprehensive development programs, new legislation now requires detailed attention to public facilities and services plans. This is in essence a new and added step to the process. The plans which are now required are water distribution, sewer, storm drainage, parks and transportation. An assessment of the community's status with regard to these studies is that all are complete. Consequently, only minor updates would be envisioned. Furthermore, with the exception of parks and minor elements of transportation, the majority of contributions would be made by the City's Consulting Engineer. Due to the above referenced consideration, we have noted this step in the planning • process. It is anticipated, however, that minimal time will have to be devoted. No more than thirty days have been allocated for this task on the part of Midwest Planning's involvement. TASK V - HOUSING PLAN As noted in the Little Canada Metropolitan System Statement, housing is a topic to be specifically addressed. We are as a result, highlighting this factor as a separate task. The housing element of the overall work program is seen as a highly detailed specific and individual, although coordinated, undertaking. As in the case of the general comprehensive guide plan, the housing plan must be approached in a staged, incremental fashion to facilitate an orderly and logical plan formulation and decision- making process. The housing plan is seen as encompassing two elements. The foundation for the plan will be established by a housing profile, summarizing the existing social, econmic and physical housing conditions as well as projected housing needs and considerations which would be completed as part of inventory activities during Task II of the work program. Based upon this information, the policy plan would be produced. A detailed 7 64