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METROPOLITAN COUNCIL GUIDELINES FOR REVIEW OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS I. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES The Metropolitan Land Planning Act requires counties, cities, and townships that wish to amend their comprehensive plans to follow the same review and approval procedure they used when adopting their plans. This means that local governmental units must submit proposed amendments to adjacent communities and affected school districts for comment and to the Metropolitan Council for review. Minn. Stat. 473.864, subd. 2 (1978). The purpose of these guidelines is to establish a procedure for review of proposed amendments to local comprehensive plans. The land planning act authorizes the Metropolitan Council' to prepare and adopt such guidelines. Minn. Stat. 473.854 (1978). all changes in local comprehensive plans are considered to be amendments under these guidelines. Section III of the guidelines lists 12 types of changes that are amendments. These changes fall into three basic categories: changes in local sewer service systems, changes that may have impacts on'regional facilities and systems, and changes that may affect planned population density in rural service areas identified in local plans. The guidelines provide for a review period of 90 to 120 days following Metropolitan Council receipt of a proposed amendment. II. SCOPE These guidelines apply to all amendments proposed by a local governmental unit after it has prepared and adopted a comprehensive plan in accordance with the land planning act. Proposed changes in local comprehensive plans not included in the definition of "amendment" in Section III are not subject to these guidelines and need not be submitted to the Metropolitan Council for review. III. DEFINITIONS The terms "Applicable Planning Statute," "Capital Improvement Program," "Comprehensive Plan," "Local Governmental Unit," or "Unit," and "Private Sewer Facility," shall have the meaning given them in the definition section of the land planning act, Minn. Stat. 473.852 (1978). As used in these guidelines, additional terms shall be defined as follows: 1. Amendment - one or more of the following proposed changes to a comprehensive plan. Any change in the area to be served by public or private sewer service from that identified for such service in the local sewer policy plan.