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<br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />This comprehensive plan represents the third official update to Mounds View’s original comprehensive plan that was <br />prepared in 1959. Previous updates occurred in 1975 and again in 1979 in response to the Metropolitan Land Planning <br />Act of 1976. While the current update is again in response to a legislative mandate, the City recognizes that <br />comprehensive planning is a continuous process that must respond to changing conditions both internally and externally. <br /> <br />The Mounds View Comprehensive Plan is a policy document. The term policy is a reflection of the flexibility intended in <br />the application of the plan. The plan is not to be viewed as a hard and fast graphic layout of the community, nor are the <br />goals and policies to be viewed as ordinances or law. These are guidelines that typically must be reviewed and applied <br />individually and collectively to each development, improvement or decision that is presented. <br /> <br />The goals and policies contained in the Comprehensive Plan form the basic and fundamental plan for the community. <br />Their purpose is to guide all public and private actions and development within the community and also serve the more <br />passive function of establishing evaluation criteria for the development and change that subsequently occurs. The goals <br />can be defined as the desired end products with the policies being the means to that desired end. The individual policies <br />are not included in this summary for sake of brevity. <br /> <br />To assist in the updating of the comprehensive plan, the Mounds View Planning Commission conducted three community <br />forums. The Planning Commission conducted these forums to help Mounds View citizens understand what the <br />comprehensive plan is and most importantly to give citizens a chance to talk about what Mounds View should be like in <br />the future. The first draft of the revised plan was presented to the community at a community forum and an official <br />public hearing was conducted. Following the hearing the Planning Commission recommended the document to the City <br />Council. The City Council, after public input approved the document for review by adjacent communities and the <br />Metropolitan Council. The Met Council approved the document on November 8, 2000.