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The Honorable Arnold Cox April 22, 1977 Page Two preliminary Recommended Critical Area Plan and Regulation Activities for your review. The recommended activities indicate the major planning tasks your community should undertake to modify its existing plans and regulations to be consistent with the Critical Area standards and guidelines. An appendix contain- ing the specific staff assessment on which the recommendations are based is also included. After you have reviewed the preliminary recommendations, the Metropolitan Council staff, if necessary, will meet with you or your staff to discuss or clarify our recommendations. Following this meeting, final staff recommendations will be placed on the Metropolitan Council's consent list and submitted to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Council for their review and approval. Once the City and Metropolitan Council staffs have reached agreement on the recommended planning activities, the City is to prepare a detailed planning work program and application for state planning funds to assist you in performing the necessary work. A copy of a memorandum from Cliff Aichinger, the state Critical Areas Coordinator, indicating what is to be included in the application and related information is attached. The Metro- politan Council staff can provide some technical assistance in preparing the work program and application for state assistance where local staff is not available. The application and work program are to be submitted to the State Planning Agency and will be reviewed with the recommendations of the Metropolitan Council by the Environmental Quality Council. The planning requirements of the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area are to be considered as separate from any require- ments your community may have under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act. However, your community may wish to coordinate these two programs and has that option.. In a number of communities the Metropolitan Council is recommending that these two planning programs be coordinated. The need for coordination will be identified in the attached Preliminary recommendations as it relates to specific planning tasks or activities. Should you need further information or when you are ready to discuss these recommendations please contact Carl Schenk (291- 6410). To allow your community adequate time to apply for state planning funds I encourage you to review these recommendations as soon as possible and contact our staff. (~rector, Physical Planning & Development EEF/cjd Attachment