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• • • • • Language was generally reviewed for consistency, and updated to reflect additional tools and changes in regional policies or planning efforts • Language pertaining to ongoing or completed projects within the City of Hugo or Washington County was updated to reflect the current project status • General document cleanup was undertaken A comprehensive response to affected jurisdiction comments and list of changes made to the Comprehensive Plan in response is included as Attachment C. The City of Hugo received a letter on June 1, 2018 from the Metropolitan Council providing feedback on 2040 Comprehensive Plan. A comprehensive response to Metropolitan Council comments dated March 4, 2019 will be submitted to the Metropolitan Council as part of our 2040 Comprehensive Plan submittal (Attachment D). City staff engaged in further discussion with the Metropolitan Council pertaining to forecasts for population, households and employment for 2040. Staff attended an in -person meeting and communicated additionally via e-mail correspondence. The Metropolitan Council adopted 2040 forecasts of 29,000 population, 11,900 households, and 4,000 employment. However, because the Metropolitan Council and the City of Hugo have committed to property owners certain land use designations and to be eligible for municipal sewer and water by being within the MUSA, the City advocated to continue to use previous forecasts of 40,000 population, 11,900 households and 4,500 employment. These forecasts are from the previous 2030 Comprehensive Plan forecasts. The Metropolitan Council agreed to allow the City of Hugo to continue to use the higher forecasts so long as the comprehensive plan explicitly states that: • The City of Hugo was using a previously forecasted population forecast from 2030, a population of 40,000. • The City is using the previous 2030 forecasts to honor commitments to property owners relating to land use designations and municipal sewer and water eligibility • The City of Hugo discourages leap frog development and the City will monitor growth in a manageable way. • Extension of utilities is development driven. • The City of Hugo has the capacity and can serve approximately 425 units per year, but that number would be decreased with the Met Council's forecast. • Sewer districts depend on one another and the sequencing of sewer extensions is key. • The forecasts do not have an impact on the Met Council system. Based on the comments from the Metropolitan Council from the pre -review letter and further discussions, the City of Hugo made the following primary changes to the draft of the Comprehensive Plan: Post submittal of the draft Comprehensive Plan to the City Council of the City of Hugo, the Metropolitan Council posted new data on the Community Profile for Hugo. This data was primarily sourced from the ACS 2013-2017. Per the request of the Metropolitan Council, City staff incorporated all new data posted by the Metropolitan Council within the appropriate text, tables, and charts. Changes were made by majority to Chapter 2: Community Background, Chapter 3: Land Use Plan, Chapter 4: Housing Plan and Chapter 6: Parks Trails and Open Space Plan. City Council - 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update March 4. 2019