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• • Hugo Coinprehensive Plan Review I. II\ITRODUC T iON The 1967 law establishing the Metropolitan Cro cil requires that the Council review, comment on, and make recommendations on long- e rm comprehensive plans of the counties , cities, villages, towns, and borough within the Metropolitan Area.. The same requirement applies to major alterations of such plans and to any other matter with substantial effect on metropolitan area development. Comprehensive plan reviews conducted under this law will he utilized as background information in examining current referrals requesting grants-in-aid for various projects . In addition, plan reviews provide an excellent opportunity for the Area's municipalities and the Metropolitan Council to examine and discuss the inter-relationships and mutuality of interests between local planning and metropolitan planning. • The comprehensive plan review will not serve as an official review in cases where • same is legally required by other governmental bodies such as the Metropolitan Sewer Board. Comprehensive plans are reviewed with reference to developing or completed components of the Metropolitan Council's Development Guide and various background research materials that are mostly in map and data form and deal with various phenomena in • the Metropolitan Area. The review is organized topically in accord with the elements included in the Metropolitan Development Guide. These elements are: a) physical development structure, b) parks and open space, c) transportation, d) major centers 3) utilities , and t) residential development. A category of "other considera- tions" is included to deal with specialized developments or elements that do not • relate to the items enumerated in the previous sentence. A brief overview of the community and its planning and development programs as seen by the Council, a state- ment on the relationships of the plan to plans and developments in bordering communities , and a list of final recommendations complete the review package. • Since the municipality`s comprehensive plan is reviewed from the aspect of its relationships to the metropolitan-wide Development Guide arid its components , both items of agreement or accord as well as those items where there is disagree- ment or divergence of opinions between local and metropolitan plans and concepts are indicated here • ..l. COMMUNITY OVERVIEW The Village of Hugo, 36 square miles in area , is located in northwest Washington County. Hugo is bounded by the towns of May, Grant and •the of V site Bear Lake, Lino Lake, and Forest Lake. (See Appendix I) . The Village is part of Metropolitan Council District 2 while the western half of the village lies in Sewer Service Area 3 .