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STAFF REPORT To: Mayor and City Council Michael Mornson, City Manager From: Kim Moore -Sykes, Assistant City Manager Date: November 25, 2008 Subject: 2008 Comprehensive Land Use Plan Update Requested Action: Date Application Received: Property Address: Zoning District: 60 -Day Expires: Waiver Letter Required: Approval of the 2008 Comprehensive Land Use Plan Update for Submittal to the Metropolitan Council. N/A N/A N/A N/A Yes Date Sent; X No Background: In 1979, the City completed its first comprehensive land use plan and used it in planning its development for twenty years. In the early 1990s, State law was adopted that required municipalities to do or redo their land use plans, with updates to be done every ten years. The City of St. Anthony completed its updated comprehensive land use plan in 1998. The purpose of the comprehensive land use plan is to both protect all those tangible and intangible characteristics that contribute to the community's uniqueness and to manage the change and on-going development that keeps the community vibrant. The 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update is the by-product of a 2 -year long effort on the part of residents, staff and consultants to review what has been done, what's happening now and what the City's future response will be. The City began planning for this update in 2006. Welham Weber, A.I.C.P., McCombs Frank Roos and Associates, was selected at that time through an RFP process to facilitate the update project and provide technical support to an ad hoc task force commissioned by the City Council. Also invited to the task force meetings were representatives from SANB School Superintendent, Rice Creels Watershed District, and the Middle Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. The task force had its first meeting in May 2006 and continued meeting monthly Until October 2006. On November 8, 2006, the City held an open house, which provided the community an opportunity to review the proposed draft of comprehensive land use plan update. 11252008 Council Staff Report 2008 Comp Plan.doc 19