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METROPOLITAN COUNCIL Mears Park Centre, 230 East Fifth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101-1634 612 291-6359 FAX 612 291-6550 RECEIVED MAR 2 5 1993 Ans'd.....~^'.~A' TTY 612 LYJ-uyu4 , c,; 0<>- (V' c~ \Y \ __\ vVlt J-.. <9 i~.ll~ T- ~~ fJ2-- r Q-~r.s,R' ~ ~ ~ I. _ q.. ~ v....2- To Local Planning Officials: ~('LVfC:)u V'\ I 1 o<V Your local government received a letter several months ago from the Metropolitan Council tit- regarding the need to adopt the Council's Interim Strategy for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control by January 1st, 1993. Since then a number orlocal comprehensive plan amendments submitted to the Council for review have been delayed because the local governments had not adopted the interim strategy. To avoid similar delays in the future, the Council is advising local governments on how to proceed in adopting the Council's interim strategy. ~ March 18, 1993 The Metropolitan Council adopted the interim strategy for the Minnesota River on May 28, 1992, and for other metropolitan waters on October 22, 1992: The strategy requires local governments to amend their local comprehensive plans, land use controls and stormwater plans to incorporate the Council's interim strategy. The strategy includes the adoption of National Urban Runoff Program (NURP) wet basin design criteria for new stormwater detention ponds and the urban best management practices of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as presented in its manual titled Protecting Water Ouaiity in Urban Areas or equivalent requirements. In addition, local governments must indicate their willingness to cooperate with the Department of Natural Resources in adopting the revised state-wide shoreland standards. The Council may require modification of local plan amendments that involve land use activities that generate surface water runoff unless the local government has adopted the interim measures described above. Copies of the interim strategy and a model stormwater ordinance to assist local governments in amending their land use controls were sent to the designated contact person for each local government. A forum held on December 15, 1992, for local planning officials explained the strategy and the model ordinance. To avoid future delays in the Council's review of local plan amendments, local governments should follow one of two courses of action: 1. Each local government should implement the Council's Interim Strategy as soon as possible including the adoption of amendments to its comprehensive plan, land use controls and stormwater plan, or, 2. If the above action is impossible because of time constraints, the local government may amend its comprehensive plan to incorporate the interim strategy and adopt a reasonable date by which it will amend its land use controls and stormwater plan. When it has adopted the latter ~mendments, it should notify the Council. * Recycled Paper