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Item No: 7A Meeting Date: July 23, 2001 Type of Business: CB City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Approval of Resolution 5584, a Resolution Adopting the Updated Mounds View Comprehensive Plan Date of Report: July 23, 2001 Background: After many months of continuous review, multiple public meetings, open houses and public hearings, the Mounds View Planning Commission approved the draft Comprehensive Plan on February 16, 2000 and forwarded it and its recommendation to the City Council. On February 28, 2000, the City Council accepted the draft plan and authorized its release to adjoining communities and the Met Council. On November 8, 2000, the Metropolitan Council approved the Plan. The City Council reviewed the draft Comprehensive Plan at meetings on June 4 and June 11, 2001, and held a public hearing for the Comprehensive Plan on July 9, 2001. At that meeting, staff was directed to bring the Plan back before the Council on July 23, 2001 for final its final adoption. Discussion: As mentioned in previous meetings, even though the previous Comprehensive Plan had been last officially revised in 1979, many of the goals and principles contained in that document were carried forward with the updated Plan. The data and statistics in the updated Plan, however, are the most current possible, utilizing and benefiting from the work of the North Metro I-35W Corridor Coalition as well as the just-released Census 2000 data. Staff indicated that it had asked a local statistician to review the Plan and update the Census, demographics and housing data, if need be. Staff has not yet received the final report of the statistician, however if any changes are suggested, they would not alter the goals, principles and overall intent of the Plan. Also stated at previous meetings regarding the Comprehensive Plan, it was pointed out that the Plan represents our future “vision” of how Mounds View will develop and grow, to whatever extent it can, being a nearly-fully developed community. The Plan will serve as the City’s guiding document, its “blueprint” for redevelopment. The goals and principles contained in the plan, as well as the future land use map, represent how we today envision the future of the community. The document, by necessity, should be fluid and flexible as opposed to rigid and uncompromising. It would be impossible to attempt to predict all of the potential redevelopment scenarios that could happen in Mounds View, especially given the changing market conditions. Because the free market typically drives development and redevelopment, amendments to the Comprehensive Plan should be considered on a case-by-case basis and approved only when such an amendment would in the best interest of the community. Recommendation: