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Page 2 Enclosure Letter to Charles E. Dillerud September 26, 2005 Regional Parks The comprehensive plan amendment is not complete for review until it includes the Washington County Greenway Regional Trail on the "Existing Park and Recreation Facilities" map. Staff recognizes that the City is in the process of updating flie trails system plan component of its comprehensive plan and that it is not complete at this time. However, the Existing Park and Recreation. Facilities reap identifies the location of a regional trail in the far northwest corner of the City, the Gateway State Trail. The Washington County Greenway Regional Trail should be included as well. The City state during the initial 2002 Metropolitan Council review of Lake Elmo's 2020 comprehensive plan update that the omission of this proposed regional trail in its plan map was an oversight. At that time the City stated that it would change its map to show a proposed north -south regional trail that would connect Big Marine Regional Park in the north pail: of the county to Lake Eh -no Regional Park Reserve in the central part of the county to Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park in the south part of the county. Land Use—Altemative Densities The City Of Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan -2030- amendment application should provide two alternative sets of density ranges for residential land within the 2030 Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) and reflect the other requirements of Metropolitan Council Resolution 2005-20, provision 3.(i). While the 2030 city plan indicates that in the event growth expectations are not achieved the city will work cooperatively with the Council to devise a remedial plan for the ensuing five years, the plan does not fully reflect the requirements of provision 3.(i) of Metropolitan. Council Resolution 2005-20 (copy attached). Land Use --Village Plan To be complete for review, the land use element of the comprehensive plan amendment application should include the Village Land Use Plan and Green Belt subarea plan. There are numerous references in the city plan application to the effect that all development and redevelopment within the Village Area and Green Belt shall be responsive to the adopted Village Plan. Given the prominence of the Village Area in the City's comprehensive plan, the City needs to include the Village Plan as a more detailed subarea comprehensive plan element, or integrate more Village Plan details into the land use element. The Council has not previously reviewed the Village Plan, and so the comprehensive plan application needs to incorporate enough details to determine its conformance with regional systems and consistency with Council policies. Not only is this necessary as noted in the