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Metropolitan Agencies <br />Metro Cities supports efforts to identify capital funding sources to assist with <br />municipal water supply projects. Any fees or taxes for regional water supply <br />planning activities must be consistent with activities prescribed in MN Statutes 473. <br />1565, and support activities specifically within the region. <br />4-H Review of Local Comprehensive Plans <br />In reviewing local comprehensive plans and plan amendments, the Metropolitan <br />Council should: <br />• Recognize that its role is to review and comment, unless it is found that the local plan <br />is more likely than not to have a substantial impact on or contain a substantial <br />departure from one of the four system plans; <br />• Be aware of the statutory time constraints imposed by the Legislature on plan <br />amendments and development applications; <br />• Provide for immediate effectuation of plan amendments that have no potential for <br />substantial impact on systems plans; <br />• Require the information needed for the Metropolitan Council to complete its review, <br />but not prescribe additional content or format beyond that which is required by the <br />Metropolitan Land Use Planning Act (LUPA); <br />• Work in a cooperative and timely manner toward the resolution of outstanding issues. <br />When a city's local comprehensive plan is deemed incompatible with the Met <br />Council's systems plans, Metro Cities supports a formal appeals process that includes <br />a peer review. Metro Cities opposes the imposition of sanctions or monetary penalties <br />when a city's local comprehensive plan is deemed incompatible with the Met <br />Council's systems plans or the plan fails to meet a statutory deadline when the city <br />has made legitimate efforts to meet Met Council requirements; <br />• Work with affected cities and other organizations such as the Pollution Control <br />Agency, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Health and other <br />stakeholders to identify common ground and resolve conflicts between respective <br />goals for flexible residential development and achieving consistency with the <br />Council's system plans and policies; and <br />Require entities, such as private businesses, nonprofits, or local units of government, <br />among others, whose actions could adversely affect a comprehensive plan, to be <br />subject to the same qualifications and/or regulations as the city. <br />2016 Legislative Policies 41 <br />