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to one another, it is unclear whether the density of this transitional development would be within <br />the two categories' allowed density ranges. <br />Housing (Hilary Lovelace, 651-602-1555) <br />The Plan is complete for review, but inconsistent with Council housing policy. <br />• Table 57, on page 119, in the Housing Chapter details the original community forecast. This <br />page and any subsequent details need to be revised to reflect the City's revised forecast. <br />Implementation Plan <br />The Plan fails to consider the use of their own municipal HRA or EDA, which is a widely <br />accepted tool that must be considered. If a community plans to rely on cooperation with County <br />HRA or EDAs and not use their own local development powers, stating so in the Plan will satisfy <br />this requirement for consistency with Council housing policy. <br />Advisory Comments <br />• Page 120, in the Housing Chapter, makes reference to Table 7, Forecasted Growth <br />Allocations. This reference should be revised to Table 34. <br />• If the community forecast is revised upward, this may increase the Affordable Housing Need <br />allocation number. The City should consider this factor in making any Plan revisions. The <br />City may need to guide more High Density Residential land to meet a revised housing need <br />number. <br />Water Supply (John Clark, 651-602-1452) <br />Because the community has a municipal public water supply system, the Local Water Supply <br />Plan (LWSP) must be included as part of the 2040 Plan. Council staff request that the City <br />provide the complete final LWSP in an appendix to the 2040 Plan. <br />The City prepared a LWSP in 2016 that was submitted to both the MN Department of Natural <br />Resources (DNR) and Metropolitan Council and reviewed separately. Council comments were <br />shared with the DNR on July 5,2017. <br />Advisory Comments <br />The City will need to update its LWSP with the current total population forecast revisions <br />requested by the City. This includes Table 7 "Projected Annual Water Demand" and any other <br />Plan information that the population changes may impact such as future infrastructure needs. <br />The updated Plan would then need to be submitted to the Council as an appendix to the 2040 <br />Plan. In order to ensure Plan consistency across agencies the updated LWSP needs to be <br />provided to the DNR. <br />Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area (MRCCA) (Rays Esmaeili, 651-602-1616) <br />The MRCCA section of the Plan is still undergoing reviewthrough the DNR's 45-day review <br />period. Please note that the DNR will communicate directly with the City about the review and <br />approval of the MRCCA plan under the Critical Areas Act (Minn. Statute § 116G.07 Subd. 3) <br />and the MRCCA Rules (Minn. Rules 6106.0070 Subp. 3. E.). The Plan will be considered <br />complete for this item once the DNR has issued its conditional approval letter. <br />Implementation (Eric Wojchik, 651-602-1330) <br />The Plan does include an Implementation Chapter, Chapter 10. However, as stated in the <br />previous response letter, the Plan and Implementation Chapter needs to include the following: <br />• Local zoning map and zoning category descriptions. <br />• Descriptions of all relevant official controls addressing at least zoning, subdivision, water <br />supply, and private sewer systems. <br />Page -4 I March 31, 2020 I METROPOLITAN COUNCIL <br />