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Implementing Thrive <br />Next steps <br />Thrive establishes the policy foundation used to complete regional systems and policy plans, <br />development policies, and implementation strategies that together form the comprehensive <br />development guide. Detailed policies implementing the Thrive policy direction and advancing <br />the five Thrive outcomes will emerge and be formally adopted in the Thrive systems and policy <br />plans: <br />• Water Resources Policy Plan (late 2014); <br />• Housing Policy Plan (fall 2014); <br />• Transportation Policy Plan (late 2014); <br />• Regional Parks Policy Plan (early 2015). <br />In addition to the Thrive systems and policy plans, the Council will consider how to advance the <br />Thrive outcomes through: <br />• Making investments through Livable Communities Act grants (Livable Communities <br />Demonstration Account, Local Housing Incentives Account and Tax Base Revitalization <br />Account); <br />• Working with the Transportation Advisory Board on the Regional Solicitation for <br />Transportation Funds; <br />• Investigating the use of the Council's current funding mechanisms as tools to aid in <br />promoting the Thrive outcomes. <br />Local Planning Process <br />The policy direction in Thrive and the systems and policy plans that follow assist local <br />governments to create consistent, compatible, and coordinated local comprehensive plans that <br />together strive to reach a common purpose. The Council will distribute Systems Statements to <br />local jurisdictions in the fall of 2015, beginning this decade's round of local comprehensive plan <br />updates due back to the Council in 2018. The Systems Statements explains how Thrive and the <br />systems and policy plans affect that individual community. If a community disagrees with any <br />item of the System Statement, they may request a hearing to resolve any issues (Minn. Stat. <br />473.857). The local governments use the System Statement information to develop their <br />comprehensive plans to achieve local visions within the regional policy framework. (Minn. Stat. <br />473.856-857; 473.864-865). <br />Once a community updates its plan, the community then shares it with adjacent and affected <br />jurisdictions for them to consider the plan's impact, consistency, and coordination with their own <br />plans. After completing that process, the community then sends their plan to the Council for its <br />review based on the requirements of the Metropolitan Land Planning Act, state and federal <br />guidelines referenced in this document, and the comprehensive development guide. The <br />Council considers that plan's compatibility with the plans of other communities, consistency with <br />adopted Council policies, and conformance with metropolitan system plans (Minn. Stat. <br />473.175). If the Council finds that a community's plan is more likely than not to have a <br />substantial impact on or contain a substantial departure from metropolitan system plans, the <br />Council can require the community to modify its local plan to assure conformance with the <br />metropolitan system plans (Minn. Stat. 473.175). <br />DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT <br />Last revised: February 21, 2014 117 <br />