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Village area updates (which can be processed, if needed, at a later date) and reducing the amount of time that would be spent on the transportation plan. Other relevant information: • Since the Council has spent time during several workshops over the past several months reviewing each of the separate plan elements, a written summary and description of each section is not being provided with this memorandum. The City Engineer has instead prepared a brief report for the Transportation, Surface Water Management, and Water Supply sections that summarizes the changes to the documents that have been made during the review of the plan amendments. • The Planning Commission has conducted the required public hearing for each of the revised sections, and the City Engineer or Planning Department has incorporated comments from the Commission into the final documents. • The goal of proposed updates is to complete the minimal requirements of the Metropolitan Council's System Statements (and watershed districts for the water resources plans) to comply with the given deadlines. All plans will be completed on the basis of the current land use plan adopted in 2006. • The City is required to submit its Comprehensive Plan amendment to adjacent communities for review. Each community is given six months to review the document, which means these reviews must be completed by November 2009. • Once any comments from the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities are addressed, the City must take separate action to formally revise and adopt the plan. The overall process must be completed by the end of December 2009. • Once authorized for distribution, staff will combine the separate sections into one document with a cover page and common section title pages for each chapter. The Parks and Open Space Plan and Special Protection Areas sections need updated title pages. COMP PLAN DOCUMENT: In order to minimize the amount of copying required to present the completed plan to the City Council, staff has provided an electronic version of the entire Comprehensive Plan update to the Council on a CD- ROM. All updated sections will be combined into one document in the final version that will be submitted to the Metropolitan Council. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council approve distribution of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update to the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities for review. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Comprehensive Plan Amendments (CD-ROM) o Transportation Plan o Water Supply Plan o Surface Water Management Plan o Parks and Open Space Plan o Protection of Special Areas Plan