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RESOLUTION NO 2008-045 WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes section 473.864 requires local governmental units to review and, if necessary, amend their entire comprehensive plans and their fiscal devices and official controls at least once every ten. years to ensure comprehensive plans conform with metropolitan system plans and ensure fiscal devices and official controls do not conflict with comprehensive plans or permit activities that conflict with metropolitan system plans; and WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes sections 473.858 and 473.864 require local governmental units to complete their "decennial" reviews by December 31, 2008; and WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes section 473.864 authorizes the Metropolitan Council to grant extensions to local governmental units to allow local governmental units additional time within which to complete the "decennial" review and amendments: and WHEREAS, any extensions granted by the Metropolitan Council must include a timetable and plan for completing the review and amendment; and WHEREAS, the City will not be able to complete its "decennial" review by December 31, 2008, for the following reasons: 1) One of the primary reasons for the delay in these elements was the time and thought that went into creating the current 2030 comprehensive plan and getting Metropolitan Council approva of it. This plan encompasses most of the required information for this update, as well as the work that is going into implementing the first phase of sewered development. In addition, the city, under the leadership of the planning commission, brought the two areas in the city planned for future sewered growth into conformance with the zoning code through holding districts. 2) The comprehensive required the city to proceed with sewered development with the Village as the highest priority for this work according to both the MOU requirements and the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. This effort requires land use planning, environmental, financial and engineering studies to gather information that will allow the city to make the associated decisions to accomplish these required goals. This work has been a priority since the adoption of the 2030 plan in 2006 3) A major environmental review process (AUAR) involving the Village is underway at this time. The outcome of this analysis will provide important information related to water, surface water and transportation needs for the city to incorporate into its future plan elements. 4) The city undertook a water plan in 2005, but put the plan on hold until the outcome of the PPC contamination work on health based values that was done by the Minnesota Department of Health and released in the spring of 2008. The city is now working on the water plan. 5) The city was functioning without a planning director from December, 2006 through December, 2007. Once hired, the new planning director requires getting acquainted with the community and land use actions and history, 6) It was important to determine the true status of the city's financial resources before proceeding with major studies in surface water and transportation without confidence that the city had the resources to pay for this work since fund balances at year end were in the negative for these