2025.11.03 CC Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

System Plan Considerations Affecting Your Community Your community should consult the complete TPP in preparing your local comprehensive plan. In addition, your community should consult Imagine 2050 and the current version of the Met Council’s Local Planning Handbook (LPH) for specific comprehensive plan requirements. Specific system plan considerations affecting your community are detailed below. Regional Highway System There are no principal arterials located within your community. Regional Transit System Your community is located within the following Transit Market Areas: TMA 4 and TMA 5. • TMA 4: Mostly Suburban Edge communities along with portions of Suburban communities. It is characterized by low population and job densities that do not support frequent local transit service and a spread out, often circuitous, street network that hinders efficient routing. Transit service in Market Area 4 is mainly peak-period express and commuter service at park-and- rides which can effectively gather the lower density transit demand into one spot. There are some suburban local routes, including suburb- to-suburb connectors, although service is typically very infrequent. Non-regular route transit, usually dial-a-ride, is generally available. • TMA 5: Generally Rural communities including rural centers but also some suburban edge communities as well as freestanding town centers characterized by very low- density development or undeveloped land not well suited for regular-route transit service outside of limited peak-period express and commuter service. Your community is not within the Transit Capital Levy District as shown in Figure 2 of the Transit Investment Plan. Regardless of the Transit Market Area or transitway corridor planning, the only transit services provided in this type of community are Transit Link dial-a-ride service and various ridesharing services. Regional Aviation System All communities must include an aviation element in the transportation sections of their comprehensive plans. The degree of aviation planning and development considerations that need to be included in the comprehensive plan varies by community. Even those communities not impacted directly by an airport have a responsibility to include airspace protection in their comprehensive plan. The protection element should include potential hazards to air navigation including electronic interference. Local comprehensive plans can also begin to consider other aviation uses which do not take place at airports, like drones. Local communities should also consider other facilities which may generate aviation activity, such as heliports or private air facilities. To see all aviation facilities in the region including those that are not defined as a part of the regional aviation system, refer to Figure 6 of the Aviation System Plan. 2025 SYSTEM STATEMENT TRANSPORTATION 12