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official controls that conflict with its comprehensive plan to ensure City zoning ordinances, subdivision controls, site plan regulations and other official controls and fiscal devices do not conflict with the City's comprehensive plan or permit any activity in conflict with metropolitan system plans. Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 473.865, subdivision 1, the City must submit copies of the official controls to the Metropolitan Council. within thirty (30) days following adoption. (d) The City will actively participate in the Metropolitan Council's plat monitoring program. (e) If the City does not prepare and submit by September 30, 2005 a plan update consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding and the requirements and conditions attached to this time extension and if the Metropolitan Council commences an enforcement action pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 473.175, subdivision 3 or other law, the City will pay the Metropolitan Council's costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, and will not contest a judicial action by the Metropolitan Council to compel compliance. (f) This time extension does not constitute a waiver of the Metropolitan Council's right to commence civil proceedings under Minnesota Statutes section 473.175. If the City does not prepare and adopt a plan update with required modifications according to the time schedule stated in this extension, the Metropolitan Council may consider the Memorandum of Understanding terminated and may seek to compel compliance with the original plan modifications that were the subject of the Minnesota Supreme Court's August 5, 2004 decision and September 30, 2004 judgment. (g) The City naust stage its sewered development consistent with Metropolitan Council policy requiring local governmental units to hook up to the regional wastewater disposal system within two (2) years after regional wastewater service is made available. (h) The Metropolitan Council's commitments in the Memorandum of Understanding to make regional sewer service available to the City via the WONE Interceptor (December 2006) said the Cottage Grove Interceptor (Phase I; December 2007) were based on the assumption that the City would submit its proposed plan update by June 15, 2005. Accordingly, the schedules for providing regional sewer service stated in the Memorandum of Understanding will be adjusted as follows to reflect the time extension requested by the City: the Metropolitan Council will plan to have regional sewer service available through the WONE Interceptor within eighteen (18) months after the date the City finally adopts an updated plan consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding and the conditions and requirements of this extension; and will plan to have regional sewer service available through the Cottage Grove Interceptor (Phase I) within thirty (30) months after the date the City finally adopts an updated plan consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding and the conditions and requirements of this extension.