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Item No: 3 Meeting Date: June 4, 2001 Type of Business: Worksession City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Review of Draft Comprehensive Plan, Direction for Setting a Public Hearing Date Date of Report: May 30, 2001 Background: Throughout 1998 and 1999, the Planning Commission and Community Development staff, working in concert with the Economic Development Commission and Parks and Recreation Commission, drafted a Comprehensive Plan update to revise the City’s existing comp plan, which was last officially updated in 1979. The update also satisfies Metropolitan Land Planning Act amendments that require all communities to have updated comp plans. After many months of continuous review, multiple public meetings, open houses and public hearings, the Planning Commission approved the comp plan draft 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. Copies of the draft plan were also delivered to Ramsey County and the school district. During the next few months, the Met Council reviewed the draft plan to determine its “completeness” and communicated with staff that additional information was needed. These areas were clarified and expanded and the revised plan was resubmitted to the Met Council. On September 14, 2000, Met Council indicated that it had concluded its “Completeness Review” and found the plan ready for “formal” review. The Met Council requested further clarifications and refinement of the data, and finally on Wednesday, November 8, 2000, the City’s comp plan was approved. The Met Council requires that the City Council formally adopt the comp plan within nine months of Met Council approval. For Mounds View, that nine-month period expires August 8, 2001. Discussion: Even thought the previous comp plan had been last officially revised in 1979, many of the goals and principles remain the same. The data and statistics in the 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 will continue to fine tune the data and incorporate more of the Census 2000 information as it is made available; up through the date the Council adopts the plan. The City will need to hold a public hearing for the document, after which point the Council