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For nearly 50years the Metropolitan Council has played a key role in coordinating regional <br />growth and planning, and convening partners to accomplish ambitious goals unrealistic for <br />a single community but possible as a region. Thinking ahead —and working together with <br />local governments, residents, businesses, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector— helps us <br />maintain a quality of life that other metropolitan areas envy. <br />Under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act, the Council iSresponsible for preparing 8 <br />comprehensive development guide for the orderly and economical development of the <br />seven -county region (W1inn.Stat.473.145).Thrive M8P2040provides aframework for a <br />shared vision for the future of our region over the next 30 years. This Housing Policy Plan <br />serves as a chapter in the overall comprehensive development guide alongside Thrive MSP <br />2040and three metropolitan systems plans, the Regional Parks Policy Plan (Minn. Stat. <br />473.147\,the Transportation Policy Plan /W1inn.Stat.473.140\'and the Water Resources <br />Policy Plan (W1inn.St81.473.140and 473.157).This Housing Policy Plan iSthe C0unci|'Sfirst <br />freestanding housing policy in nearly 30 years. The Council's Housing Development Guide <br />was adopted in 1985, but Council actions in 1998 and 1999 eliminated those policies from <br />the metropolitan development guide. To that end, this policy document supersedes and <br />replaces any previous housing policy adopted by the Council (including comprehensive <br />development guides). <br />Under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act, local governments must review and update their <br />local comprehensive plans every 10 years. Housing, although not a metropolitan system <br />under state statute, is already embedded in the local comprehensive plan requirements. For <br />example, the Council reviews local comprehensive plans based on the requirements of the <br />Metropolitan Land Planning Act t0ensure that they include: <br />• "...a housing element containing standards, plans and programs for providing adequate <br />housing opportunities tomeet existing and projected |oca|andregiona|houoingneedo, <br />including but not limited to the use of official controls and land use planning to promote <br />theavai|abi|ityof|andforthedeve|opnnentof|ovvandnnoderateinconnehouoing.''(Minn. <br />Stat.473.859.oubd. 2)and <br />• "An implementation program shall describe public programs, fiscal devices and other <br />specific actions to be undertaken in stated sequence to implement the comprehensive <br />plan and ensure conformity with metropolitan system plans. An implementation program <br />must be in at least such detail as may be necessary to establish existing or potential <br />effects on ordepartures from metropolitan system plans and to protect metropolitan <br />system plans. An implementation program shall contain at least the following parts: <br />(1) a description of official controls, addressing at least the matters of zoning, <br />subdivision, water supply, and private sewer systems, and a schedule for the <br />preparation, adoption, and administration 0fsuch controls; <br />(2) a capital improvement program for transportation, oevvero' parks, water supply, and <br />open space facilities; and <br />(3) 8 housing implementation program, including official controls to implement the <br />housing element of the land use plan, which will provide sufficient existing and new <br />ONE� Housing mmrmGrowing, 7hrivinqgegion <br />