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City Council Date: May 5, 2009 Item No. MOTION ITEM: Approve the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Updates for submittal to the Metropolitan Council SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Klatt, Planning Director REVIEWED BY: Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Jack Griffin, City Engineer Ryan Stempski, Assistant City Engineer Kelli Matzek, City Planner SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to approve distribution of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update to the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities for review in advance of the May 29, 2009 deadline for submitting a final version of the City's decennial update to the Met Council. All comments received from City staff, other agencies, the Planning Commission, and the City Council have been incorporated into the attached plan sections. Memoranda from the City Engineer detailing the updates to the final plans are attached. BACKGROUND: The Metropolitan Land Planning Act requires every municipality and county within the seven -county metropolitan area to prepare and to submit a comprehensive plan to the Metropolitan Council. These plan updates must be submitted to the Met Council every ten years, with the exact timing based on the completion of a "systems statement" for each community. Updated comprehensive plans for the current review cycle were due in December of 2008; however, the City of Lake Elmo was among a group of communities that received a six-month extension to complete its update. The new deadline for Lake Elmo to submit an updated Comprehensive Plan is May 29, 2009. There are four primary elements that must be addressed in a community's comprehensive plan. These elements and a description of each from the Met Council's Local Planning Handbook are as follows. - Background The background section of the plan delineates the community's vision and expectations. It includes the objectives, policies and forecasts that serve as the basis of the community's plans. Land Use Plan In the land use section the local comprehensive plan explains how the community has allocated and will allocate land use, how it will accommodate population growth, and how it protects special resources. • Besides an inventory of existing land use, the land use section includes a description of the community's development plans, staging them in five- year increments. • In the housing plan the community discusses plans for needed housing as these relate to housing needs throughout the region.