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METROPOLITAN COUNCIL GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWING LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS I. PURPOSE~ OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE The Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 7976 requires that amendments to comprehensive plans of local governmental units be prepared, submitted to the Metropolitan Council for review and adopted in the same manner as the original plans. Minn. Stat. 473.864, subd. 2 (1978). The purpose of these guidelines is to establish a procedure for Council review of proposed amendments. Council authority to prepare and adopt these guidelines appears at Minn. Stat. 473.854 (1978). The guidelines contain criteria that the Council will use in determining which proposed amendments are subject to a 90-day review for impact on the four metropolitan systems. Within 10 working days of receiving a proposed amendment, the Council will make an initial determination and notify the sponsoring local government as to the level of review the Council finds necessary. Under the guidelines, the most extensive Council review will be limited to proposed amendments to local comprehensive plans that potentially affect one or more of the metropolitan systems, sewers, parks, airports and transportation. It is only these amendments that the Council may require a local governmental unit to modify, if the proposed amendment has a substantial impact on or contains a substantial departure from metropolitan systems plans. Minn. Stat. 473.175, subd. I (1978). Council review of such amendments will take place within 90 days of receipt of the proposed amendment, and the local unit may not adopt or place such amendments into effect until the Council has completed its review and made its final decision pursuant to Minn. Stat. 473.866 (1978). Proposed amendments without potential system impact will be subject to a 60-day review and comment period for consistency with other chapters of the Metropolitan Development Guide. The local unit may adopt or put these amendments into effect before the Council completes its review. II. DEFINITIONS Capital ~mprovement__Program - has the same meaning as set forth at Minn. Stat. 473.852, subd. 4 (1978). Chairman - the Chairman of the Metropolitan Council.