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MEMORANDUM To: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Mark Casey, City Manager From: Breanne Rothstein, AICP, City Planner Date: May 22, 2018 City Council Meeting WSB Project No. 02170‐230 Request: Public Hearing regarding the Draft 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update and a motion authorizing staff to complete adjacent community review OVERVIEW A comprehensive plan is the city’s guiding policy document related to the built environment. In general, a city’s comprehensive plan consists of visioning, community engagement, a well‐planned process and procedure for analyzing demographic and analytic data, asking key stakeholders and community members what they want to see in the future, and proposing a series of policies related to the city’s built environment – their land uses and development, infrastructure, and parks, trails, and open spaces. Largely, comprehensive plans govern the property and land located in the community and how that land can be used, serviced with utilities, and managed over long periods of time. Every ten years, Minnesota State Statute requires that each community in the seven county Twin Cities metro area review and update their Comprehensive Plans to be consistent with regional policies. The Metropolitan Council is responsible for the development and implementation of this regional policy through the review of each community’s comprehensive plan update. There are a number of detailed required components and policies required by the Metropolitan Council regarding land use, housing, parks and trails, sewer, water, and surface water. These requirements are detailed and require a close examination of local land use and infrastructure planning and policy. Recent development interest in St. Anthony, particularly the re‐development of the Lowry Grove,and development trends toward re‐development, has sparked interest in the importance and value of the Comprehensive Plan as a guiding vision document for growth and development in the city. This interest has generated a high level of community engagement and input into the plan. Given this, the city undertook a major update and overhaul of the comprehensive plan. PROCESS TO DATE The City of St. Anthony has been working on the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update for the past 18 months. In that time period, the city undertook an extensive community engagement and visioning process. Input was collected throughout the process from over 15 engagement sessions, including: a visioning meeting, a sustainability focus group, around the community, at the high school, the rental complexes, Village Fest, and the community education classrooms, and social media, engaging over 250 residents and community members. Also, the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee has met 11 times over the past 18 months to review changing demographics and market forces, discuss goals and 17