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CITY OF LAKE ELMO COUNTY OF WASHINGTON STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION NO 2005-067 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING EXTENSION FOR TIME TO SUBMIT LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE WITH REQUIRED MODIFICATIONS WHEREAS, on September 30, 2004, the Minnesota Supreme Court entered its decision in City of Lake Elmo v. Metropolitan Council; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of MS 473.175 Subd. 3, the City of Lake Elmo was required to adopt its amended comprehensive plan with required modifications within nine (9) months of the entry of the Supreme Court's decision; and WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan modification period will expire on June 30, 2005; and WHEREAS, since the Supreme Court decision, the City of Lake Elmo has taken the following steps: 1. Conducted multiple meetings with the leadership of the Metropolitan Council which resulted in a Memorandum of Understanding signed and dated January 27, 2005 (the "MOU") providing interpretive guidance for City of Lake Elmo to redraft their Comprehensive Plan; 2. Conducted thirteen (13) public Planning Commission meetings, fifteen (15) public City Council meetings and retained TKDA Engineering in an effort to develop a revised Comprehensive Plan that would be acceptable to Metropolitan Council within the timeframe as specified in item 8 of the MOU; 3. Communicated to Metropolitan Council staff; submitted a Letter to Cha Belt, on April 26, 2005, indicating that the City of Lake Elmo was not o schedule but close to completing land planning and that the retained City's Consulting Engineers were moving forward with assigned ptanni responsibilities, and received a response dated May 2, 2005; 1 4. Adopted the draft plan with changes on May 10, 2005 and hand delivered a draft copy of the completed /approved comprehensive planning documents for an early review by senior Metropolitan Councit staff on May 20, 2005; and