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METROPOLITAN COUNCIL GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWING LOCAL COMPREHENSII~E PLAN AMENDMENTS I. PURPOSE, OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE The Metropolitan Land Planning Act requires that amendments to comprehensive plans of local governmental units be prepared, sub- mitted 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 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. Proposed amendments without a potential for metropolitan systems impact and without effects on other adopted Metropolitan Development Guide chapters will be completely reviewed within this 10-day period. Proposed amendments affecting a regional plan but 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 sponsoring local government may adopt and put these amendments into effect before the Council completes its review. 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 govern- mental unit to modify, if the proposed amendment has a substan- tial impact on or contains a substantial departure from metropol- itan systems plans. Minn. Stat. 473.175, subd. 1 (1978). Council review of such amendments will take place within 90 days of receipt of the proposed amendment, and local units may not adopt or place such amendments into effect until the Council has completed its review. II. DEFINITIONS Airport Influence Area - means a circle whose center is the airport reference point and whose radius is one mile in the case of a minor airport, two miles in the case of an intermediate airport, and four miles in the case of a major airport, as those airports are identified in the Metropolitan Council's Airports System Plan/Development Guide. 1