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City of Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ______________________________________________________________________________ 8 Introduction Overview: This comprehensive plan represents the third official update to Mounds View’s original comprehensive plan that was prepared in 1959. Previous updates occurred in 1975 and again in 1979 in response to the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1976. While the current update is again in response to a legislative mandate, the City recognizes that comprehensive planning is a continuous process that must respond to changing conditions both internally and externally. The Mounds View Comprehensive Plan is a policy document. The term policy is a reflection of the flexibility intended in 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 goals and policies, presented in written form, to be viewed as ordinances or law. These are guidelines that typically must be reviewed and applied individually and collectively to each development, improvement or decision that is presented. The goals and policies contained in the following chapters form the basic and fundamental plan for the community. In this regard, they actually serve two functions. First, their purpose is to guide all public and private actions and development within the community. In addition to this active function, they also serve the more passive function of establishing evaluation criteria for the development and change that subsequently occurs. Policies are collective in nature. Although a single policy may in some cases define a decision or course of action, it is more commonly the case that several policies apply to a given situation. The community must therefore approach and utilize the comprehensive plan with this understanding. To ensure proper understanding and clarification, the terms utilized are defined as follows: Goals: The desired end products that will ultimately result in achieving the kinds of living, working, and recreational areas that are desired and which are in accord with certain accepted policies and standards. Policies: The means by which to achieve the established goals. Policies involve a general course of conduct. They are goals translated into legislative action.