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Understanding and Approach -�- opportunities and challenges that are central to the future of the community("big picture")and devise implementation strategies that focus in their direction. There will be choices or options that the City can choose that may have extraordinary influence on the ..... direction and long-term growth of the City. The Council, staff and public should understand what these options are,as well as their potential benefits and impacts. To marry a strategic planning process and a more detailed comprehensive planning process,we are proposing the following elements be included in the plan: -- i 1. Analysis of Conditions: We will prepare enough background material so that decision-makers and the public can understand the issues and how they are interrelated. We will build upon existing data sources and information for each of the respective areas of the Plan. Some of the analysis from the 1996 plan may be amenable to reuse. The analysis could be bound separately from the plan chapters as most plan readers will not need to use it. 2. Identification of Issues: The several months of the process will focus on identifying the questions that should be debated and resolved during the plan formulation stage. Issues will be identified by exercises with the Advisory ., Committee(or Planning Commission)and Council, consultant observations,the public opinion survey and interviews. It is essential that the issues be written and categorized carefully,that the most important issues be highlighted and that extraneous issues be culled from the list. If you don't truly understand the problem, you can't arrive at the right solution. The issues are also used to determine the -- appropriate analysis or level of detail needed to examine and resolve issues. 41/ 1 We have put a significant effort into improving this aspect of our comprehensive .._. plans during the past ten years,because we have found that the issues are the base of the plan. 3. Summary of Findings and Issues: At the beginning of each plan element(such as land use),the major findings and issues from the analysis will be summarized to --- provide a link for the reader. 4. Objectives and Policies: For each plan element,there will be a few objectives that respond to the Concept Plan(or themes). Under each will be several policies or actions that will indicate clearly what or how the City or other agencies will achieve the objectives. These will be accompanied by maps,drawings and/or photos. 5. Implementation Program: At the end of each plan element,there will be a list of actions to implement that element. The major and strategic implementation items " — will be presented in an implementation chapter near the end of the plan document. This will not be a recitation of all the preceding items,but just the most important ones and those that bridge subjects. -- McCombs Frank Roos Team 6-14 City of Ramsey