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City of Lino Lakes Memo To: Lino Lakes City Council From: The Environmental Board CG Linda Waite - Smith, Jeff Smyser Date: 04 /11/01 Re: Comments on the draft Comprehensive Plan Development Framework IN GENERAL: • On April 11, 2001 the City of Lino Lakes Environmental Board•approved a resolution to forward these comments on the draft comprehensive plan to the City Council. • Please take note of our other memo on the rate of growth, dated April 11, 2001. Together, These two memos comprise the complete listing of the comments by the Environmental Board to date. In addition to .discussion and issuance of recommendations at the regular meeting on March 28, we have held special meetings on the comp plan on April 4 and April 11. Maps were obtained on March 28. The earlier recommendations contained in the 3/30 memo by M. Asieson were rushed and should be ignored as they are restated in this document along with additional recommendations. • The Environmental Board anticipates that the following comments and recommendations will be well received by council and staff and incorporated into the comprehensive plan. Should any questions or concerns arise we expect a dialog to ensue, as we are offering our services to staff and Council to that end. • Lino Lakes is a city blessed with more natural resources than surrounding communities. As such, our city warrants comparatively more predervation, yet we're poised to fall far short of what other metropolitan communities are doing. Lino Lakes' natural attributes, open space and rural character are what attract developers and residents to the city, but.the ensuing development erodes these attractive qualities. All measures of public opinion show very clearly that the residents themselves demand preservation from the adverse effects of urbanization. This is even stated in the framework on page 45 and elsewhere, yet the document, with its huge growth zones and its loopholes and inconsistencies, fails to address the very issue it cites —it fails to provide for the preservation of our natural attributes, rural character, and open space. If we lose these, we also lose the very identity of Lino Lakes itself. • Page 1