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Metropolitan Council 300 Metro Square Building Seventh Street and Robed Street Saint Paul, Minnesata 55101 Telephone 1612) 2(21-6453 Office of the Chairman Cha~: ~~/~ ~'~ ~~ April.28, 1977~ Your community recentl~eived~its preliminary Systems Statement from the Metropolitan Council.r The letter accompanying that state- ment noted that the Council staff-was working on revised population, household and employment forecasts. The initial staff draft of these forecasts is now complete, and~the forecasts, which are enclosed, are being sent to your community and all others at this time. The necessity to revise forecaSts!at this time bec~ae apparent be- cause of our own analysis as welllas forecasting work done by the State Planning Agency. The us~. of these revised forecasts, their acceptance by communities and thelMetropolitan Council, and the timing of that acceptance are all of Critical importance to implementation of the Metropolitan Land Planning~Act and to planning for metro- politan systems. I recognize that.incorporation loll the new forecaSts into the local planning process at this time may cause problems for certain com- munities. I do feel, h6wever, !that thes~ problems can be minimized if we keep in close.contactI and work together. It is in this spirit that I would like to advise you of our plans at the Metropolitan Council for dealing with changes in statements that may be necessary because of the new forecasts. Proposed Use of Forecasts The Council staff recommends that the revised forecasts be adopted by the Metropolitan Council prior-to January i, 1978~ as an amend- ment to the Development Framew~rk~Chapter of the Metropolitan Develop- ment Guide. The consequence of this action would be to make these revised forecasts the guiding ~op~lation figures with regard to all Metropolitan Council planning.~~ If adopted as an amendment to the Development Framework Chapter, ithe revised forecasts would become the controlling population forecasts in your Metropolitan Systems Statement and would, in some i~stances, be used to revise other metropolitan system projections such as wastewater flow' figures for those communities for which~changes are proposed. In addition, because of the requirements and planning obligations of the Metropolitan Land plar~ing~Act, the Council staff will also recommend to the Council that ~hese forecasts continue to be used until after the 1980 census