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Fall 1998 Volume 10, Number 3 Comprehensive Plan update provides the roadmap to the city's future The proposed update of the Lino Lakes Compre- hensive Plan provides the city with a local opportunity to establish plans and policies that will guide community growth in a rational and responsible manner through the year 2020. There are three key reasons to update the Comprehensive Plan. First, city leaders are dedicated to ensuring that the city's future is dictated by the desires of Lino Lakes residents. Those desires were gathered and identi- fied through the 20/20 Visioning Document, a 1997 community survey, and a series of public meetings. Secondly, it was time for the city to update the past planning document, which was the 1989 Com- prehensive Plan. Thirdly, the update is required by the state legislature and the Metro- politan Council. The city is responding to the 1995 Metropolitan Land Planning Act and the Metropolitan Council's Regional Blue- print. Lino Lakes' planning efforts are not limited to this document. The city is currently working on a community - wide environmental inven- tory, sanitary sewer and water plan, a housing plan, the capital improvement program, and also a trans- portation plan. Past planning efforts include the 1997 commu- nity water supply plan, the 1994 water management plan, and the 1992 facili- ties plan for parks and trails. What will Lino look like in the future? The answer provides a vision of the future which is being trans- lated into a road map of how the city will get there. That road map is the city's proposed update of the Comprehensive Plan. Information on the plan and the process This issue of Lino Lakes News is dedicated to providing infor- mation about a proposed update to the Comprehensive Plan. Read comments from the mayor and city council members. Meet the residents who serve on the 13- member Comprehensive Plan Task Force and find out what a few of them think about the plan Learn how and what issues, concerns and opportunities were identified before the plan was put together. Read about the six components that make up the plan. Discover the time table the city faces as it works to complete the update. For planning purposes, the city was divided into six planning districts with public input from each district. Maps of each planning district give details on what's in store for each area of the city. The maps are on display at City Hall. Feel free to stop by and see what's, in store for Lino Lakes. A proposed land use map and urban expan- sion staging map are on pages 9 -10.