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• • • The Land Use Plan builds on the community vision, goals, and strategies to establish a policy framework in which future development will occur. The Land Use Plan is also used to estimate the community's capacity to accommodate projected population, household and employment growth. The growth forecasts for the year 2030 issued by the Metropolitan Council in 2005 were revised to be consistent with the potential growth that could be accommodated through the Land Use Plan. The household and employment forecasts are used to develop the remaining chapters of the comprehensive plan, as sewer, water and, transportation system infrastructure plans are based on the forecasts and development information presented in the Land Use Plan. In concert with the Land Use Plan, the Housing Plan presented in Chapter 4 and the Economic Development Plan presented in Chapter 5 describe how the city will attract and accommodate the 6,600 new households and 4,080 jobs that are forecasted to locate within Lino Lakes by the year 2030. The cultural system plans — Transportation (Chapter 6), Sanitary Sewer (Chapter 7), Water Supply (Chapter 8), and Community Facilities (Chapter 9) — provide for the infrastructure and facilities needed to serve the projected growth. The Planning Districts (Chapter 10) provide detailed guidance regarding specific planning objectives for five districts throughout the community. The Implementation Plan (Chapter 11) describes the actions that the City will take to ensure that the plans, programs, and policies set forth in the Comprehensive Plan will be carried out by the decisions the city makes in the future. Together, the elements of the Comprehensive Plan and the manner in which the layers build upon one another recognize the true relationship between ecology, culture, and economy. Regional Context In 1967 the Minnesota Legislature created the Metropolitan Council to plan and coordinate the orderly development of the seven -county metropolitan area. Minnesota law requires every municipality and county within the metropolitan area to prepare and submit a comprehensive plan to the Metropolitan Council that addresses all required components of the 2030 Regional Development Framework. The City's plan must be consistent with the Metropolitan Council's system plans. In preparation for the city's comprehensive plan, in 2004 the Met Council prepared population, employment, and household forecasts for 2010, 2020, and 2030 for Lino Lakes, which were presented in the City's System Statement in 2005. The forecasts were based on the Metropolitan Council's 2005 household estimate, the city's former growth management policy of approving no more than 147 housing units per year, and the Hardwood Creek Comprehensive Plan amendment forecast revision. As part of the comprehensive planning process, a thorough market study was conducted to determine the demand for additional housing and jobs in the community. Additional information on the market study is presented in Chapter 4: Housing and Chapter 5: Economic Development. The market study found additional demand for housing in the city beyond the Metropolitan Council forecasts. Through the comprehensive planning process, the city's growth management policy was revised accordingly to provide more flexibility for development and to accommodate the market forecasts for residential and job growth. The City has worked with the Met Council to increase its forecasts to more accurately reflect future growth in the City. The revised forecasts are currently being reviewed by the Met Council for approval. The original Met Council forecasts from the 2005 System Statement and the revised forecasts prepared by the City are presented below in Table 1 -1 for comparison. The city's infrastructure plans are based on the revised market -based forecasts, rather than the original 2005 Met Council forecasts, to ensure that adequate infrastructure is in place to accommodate future growth. 1 -5