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300 Metro Square Building, 7th Street and Robert Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 Area 612, 291-6359 November 25, 1980 TO: Metropolitan Area Citizens and Local Officials Attached for your review is a new draft Of Metropolitan Council Guidelines for Reviewing Local Comprehensive Plan Amendments. The Council would like to receive your suggestions and comments on the draft at its Physical Development Committee meeting on December 11 at 3:00 p.m. It expects to vote December 18 to schedule a second public hearing on the guidelines. The guidelines are needed because the procedures used by the Council and adjacent local units of government to review compre- hensive plans prepared under'the Metropolitan Land Planning Act would not be appropriate for plan amendments. Concerned communities have also asked the Council to develop guidelines to clarify the review procedures for plan amendments. The Council prepared draft guidelines and held a public hearing on July 31. After reviewing testimony at the hearing, the Council found that substantial changes were needed in the guidelines. Developing revised guidelines has not been easy; it has involved an effort to balance a number of important concerns. The Council's objective is to develop guidelines that do not hinder tke local planning and development process, while furthering the objectives of the Land Planning Act. In developing the revised draft, the Council has drawn on the advice and assistance of area local officials, city managers and planners, and the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities. This input has been provided through many informal working sessions with Council staff, testimony at the public hearing and subsequent meetings of the Physical Development Committee. The attached draft was prepared by Council staff. It will be reviewed for the first time by the Physical Development Committee at its regular meeting on December 4. Further discussion will take place ac the committee's December 11 and ].8 meetings. On the 18th, the committee is expected to recommend a draft of the guidelines to the Council for public hearing purposes, and th~ Council is expected to set a hearing date. Before then, how~er, the committee would like to receive your suggestions on the attar-bed draft. It An Agency Create(1 to Coordinate the Planning and I)evelopment of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Comprising: Anoka County ~) Carver County o Dakota County O I~ennepin County o Ramsey County O Scott County o W~hington County