Agenda - Council - 02/24/2005 - Joint with Planning Commission

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Events that have occurred subsequent to the work session: Meeting with Metropolitan Council staff and Area Representative Natalie Haas Steffen: Subsequent to thc January ;4th work'r Session, City staff and consultants met with Metropolitan Council staff members and area representative Natalie Haas Steffen. The purpose of the meeting was to inform land update the Met Council regarding the City initiated Comprehensive Plan Amendment Process. The Met Council stated that the comp.~ Plan amendment process the City has initiated appears to be a major overhaul of the eXisting comp. plan and is similar to work that the City will be mandated to complete in 2008 (Cities must update their comp. plan every 10 years). Met Council staff informed City staff that they are in the process of updating their system plans (transportation, Wastewater, etc,), which should be completed in July or August of this year. In order for the Met Council staff to review or make a recommendation to the Met COuncil on the City's comp. plan rewrite amendment, the City will have to address and comply ~with the systems plans. The Met Council staff strongly advised the City to not applYl to the Met Council for a comprehensive plan amendment of such magnitude until the system plans are completed. Met Council staff stated that the City should apply for comp. plan amendments based on immediate requests and wait to complete the rewrite until later this fall. The results of the meeting with.the Met coUncil proved to be enlightening due to the fact that the City has been proceeding with the intent to address development, transportation corridors, and greenway corridors comp~'ehenSively. Since the Met Council clearly stated that they prefer to receive immediate reqUests: (aka smaller) amendments at this time until the systems plan are completed, it appears that the City will need to revise the current approach to amending the comp. plan. Submittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendments by Oakwood Land Development In February, the City received a comPrehensive plan amendment application from Oakwood Land Development fgr the Brookfield Subdivision and Sweet Bay Ridge (aka- St. Anthony Gun Club) Subdivision. The applications are requesting the creation of MUSA "pockets" around the project area in order to develop the properties with urban services. The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and review the applications at their March 3, 2005 meeting. It is anticipated that the City Council would review the applications at their March 22, 2005 meeting. Revised Comp. Plan Amendment Approach The City Council has stated several times that they desire to have the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment look at the City comprehensively. Often times this proves to be a very detailed and lengthy pro6ess. The City is in a situation where it has received two sketch plan applications and two comprehensive plan amendment applications from Oakwood Land Develo'3ment. The applications require Planning