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A <br />APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo ("City") has established a Comprehensive Plan that <br />provides a compilation of background data, policy statements, standards, and maps, which help to <br />guide the future physical, social, and economic development of the City; and <br />WHEREAS, The City has received a request from the City of Oakdale to consider <br />participating in a joint project that would extend sanitary sewer service to a limited number of <br />properties along Olson Lake Trail that are currently on private treatment systems; and <br />WHEREAS, based on feedback from residents along Olson Lake Trail that would benefit <br />from an extension of sewer from the City of Oakdale, City has agreed. to participate in a joint <br />project to extend sewer to a limited number of residences in Lake Elmo, and <br />WHEREAS, this area was not previously identified by the City as a fixture sewer service <br />area and the City has therefore prepared an amendment to Chapter VI of the Lake Elmo <br />Comprehensive Plan (Wastewater Facilities) in order to revise the Metropolitan Urban Service Area <br />(MU SA) for the City to include homes along Olson Lake Trail that may be served by an extension <br />of sewer service from. the City of Oakdale in the future; and. <br />WHEREAS, the Lake Elmo Planning Commission held a public hearing on April 22, 2013 <br />to consider the request to amend the Comprehensive Plan; and <br />WHEREAS, on April 22, 2013 the Lake Elmo Planning Commission adopted a motion to <br />recommend that the City Council approve the request to amend the Comprehensive Plan; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council reviewed the recommendation of the Planning Commission <br />and the proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan at its May 7, 2013 meeting. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the testimony elicited and information received, the City <br />Council makes the following: <br />FINDINGS <br />1) That the Comprehensive Plan amendment would revise Chapter Vl — Wastewater Facilities <br />of the .Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan to expand the City's MUSA boundary and to identify <br />Resolution No. 2013-37 <br />