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2008 Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ______________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Overview: This Comprehensive Plan represents the fourth official update to Mounds View’s original Comprehensive Plan. The City prepared its first Comprehensive Plan in 1959 and updated it in 1975, 1979 and in 1998. While this update is in response to a legislative mandate, the City recognizes that comprehensive planning, including goals, policies and actions, is a continuous process that must respond to changing conditions - both internally and externally. The update of the Mounds View Comprehensive Plan is an opportunity to review the City’s development-related goals and policies to ensure continued orderly, managed development and redevelopment through the year 2030. The Comprehensive Plan update also must respond to regional system statements that affect the City as outlined in the Metropolitan Council’s 2030 Regional Framework. Although the emphasis is on land use, the Comprehensive Plan has several interrelated elements addressing the natural environment, land use, transportation, housing and public facilities. To ensure the integration of these various components, the 2030 Comprehensive Plan identifies current issues the City should consider as part of the planning process and sets broadly defined goals and policies for the city. A summary of Mounds View’s current demographic profile is provided in the next chapter. City officials, residents and developers should use the elements of the Mounds View Comprehensive Plan as a guide for development and redevelopment that is to occur in the city through the year 2030. The Mounds View Comprehensive Plan is a policy document. The term policy is a reflection of the flexibility the City intends in the application of the plan. Although the document is a physical plan, it also is a reflection of the City’s social and economic values. These values are translated into the type of land use the City desires and programs about economic development, housing, transportation, natural resources and other areas. The users of the plan should not view it as a hard and fast graphic layout of the city. Nor should one view the goals and policies, as presented in written form, as ordinances or law. These are guidelines that the City and individuals must review and apply individually and collectively to each proposed development, improvement or decision. The plan also is long range, covering a period of at least 20 years. Since it is difficult for the City to predict the changes that may occur during this period, the City will need to review and update the plan on a periodic basis. Chapter 1: Introduction 1-2