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• • • Life Survey, and the community's desire for a high - quality future for Lino Lakes. The Community Visioning Effort will provide a vision and plan that will lead Lino Lakes over the next 20+ years into the future it desires. The year 2030 is the visioning and planning horizon established by the Metropolitan Council for many communities as they update their comprehensive plans. II. COMMUNITY VISIONING - — What is it; Why do it; What Benefit does it Provide to the Community? Communities are future seeking. But first, they must be able to imagine and decide what they want the future to be. Secondly, they must decide how they are going to make this desired future become a reality. Strategic leadership is a process that brings people together to think about the future, create a vision, and invent ways to make this future happen through determination, community teamwork, and disciplined actions. It is the primary function of leadership — making things happen that would not happen otherwise and preventing things from happening that might occur ordinarily. It is getting people to work together to achieve common goals and aspirations; to transform visions into reality. The Community Vision document is a record of what people think — a broad blueprint for positive change that defines a vision and key outcomes that must occur to attain this vision. Other implementation efforts and plans such as the comprehensive land use plan, financial plans, and development and redevelopment plans are policy and decision making tools that assist the city council, and administration in achieving the vision. A strategic leadership perspective and plan will challenge and stretch the community's imagination in defining what is possible and test its will to commit to a great and exciting, rather than "good enough" future. The strategic plan will forge and sustain the critical partnerships and relationships that will translate the strategic plan a reality. This Strategic Plan is a compass — a dynamic and continuous process about how a community sees, thinks about, and creates, through decisive and resolute leadership and management commitment and actions, the future it desires. It defines the long -term "big picture" framework within which all policy, fiscal, administrative, and tactical decisions need to occur. It focuses the City Council and the entire community on defining Ends and Results to be achieved and the management team on the Means necessary to achieve those Ends and Results. It does the same for the leadership and administrative elements of all other entities and community partners who have a role to play and a stake in the successful implementation of the vision and strategic plan. A community's Strategic Plan should be reviewed and updated at least every five years to ensure its currency and the continued involvement of the entire community in defining and achieving Lino Lakes' future. 3