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Suggestions Regarding the <br />Six Month Adjacent Government Review <br />• The Land Planning Act (Minn. Stat. Sec. 473.175) requires that six months prior to <br />submitting the comprehensive plan to the Metropolitan Council for review, the plan <br />must be submitted to adjacent governments for review and comment. <br />• Adjacent governments include cities, townships, counties and school districts. <br />• The "plan" means the most current draft available at the time of the adjacent <br />community review. <br />• The Metropolitan Council advises that at the time of adjacent government review, the <br />community submit the draft plan to the Council for informal review and comment. <br />• More recent law governing the local government review process limits the review <br />periods to 60 days. It is the Council's position that this adjacent government review <br />period is 60 days, not six full months. <br />• We are suggesting to cities that they proactively pursue this adjacent government <br />review and clearly spell out their expectations of their neighboring communities in a <br />cover letter as they circulate the plan. <br />• We would suggest that cover letters requesting adjacent government review include at <br />least the following. <br />• The names of all the other governments to whom the draft has been sent for <br />this adjacent government review, and the dates of these requests. <br />• A reminder that the government which you've asked to review the plan has <br />only 60 days in which to provide review comments. <br />➢ A statement that if you do not receive comment within 60 days you will <br />assume no comments are forthcoming and you will proceed with your <br />completion schedule. <br />> A proposed schedule of the important local public review steps remaining — <br />public meetings, hearings and consideration by city council for submittal to <br />the Metropolitan Council. <br />> A request that the reviewing adjacent government expedite a written response <br />indicating they have received the draft plan for review and have no comments <br />or issues with the plan if they in fact have no concerns with the document. <br />• Keep copies of all your correspondence with adjacent governments regarding this six <br />month review. <br />▪ If in doubt, clarify specific matters with your own Legal counsel. <br />H;ILIHRARY\COMMUND V1auyPQ423981ixmonciueviaw. doc <br />