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Item No: 2 Meeting Date: December 1, 2008 Type of Business: WS City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Ken Roberts, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update Introduction: City staff has been working on the 2008 Comprehensive Plan update. The Metropolitan Council is requiring the City (and all cities in the area) to update their plans by the end of 2008. However, due to delays beyond the control of Mounds View, the Metropolitan Council has granted the City a time extension to complete the plan update by May 1, 2009. Background: The City started the last Comprehensive Plan update in 1998 and finished it in 2001 with adoption by the City Council. Having broad public participation is a key to the success and acceptance of the new comprehensive plan. To this end, the City formed a steering committee (task force) in 2007 to help with the plan update. They met several times in 2007 and 2008 to review and comment on the current Comprehensive Plan and to offer suggestions for changes to the Plan. When finished, the Comprehensive Plan should represent the culmination of the community’s vision for the city. On August 20, 2008, the Planning Commission received four updated elements or chapters of the Comprehensive Plan. They included the Introduction, Community Background, Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination chapters. At this meeting, the Commission members decided to review each of these updated chapters on their own and bring comments back to the group at the next commission meeting. On September 3, 2008, the commission received the updated housing and implementation chapters of the Comprehensive Plan. During the meeting, the commission provided staff with comments and questions about some of the statistics in the proposed housing chapter. They also requested that staff provide them with the latest version of the future land use map in an 11” by 17” size and in color for their review. On September 11, 2008, staff sent the Planning Commission the proposed Economic Development chapter (dated 8-26-08), revised pages 7 and 8 of the Housing Chapter, the Comprehensive Plan Appendix, the existing land use map and the proposed future land use map. On October 1, 2008, the Planning Commission reviewed and commented on the latest versions of several chapters and parts of the 2008 Comprehensive Plan update. These included the future land use map and the economic development, introduction, community background, land use, intergovernmental coordination and housing chapters.