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. . . such reviews in ten days or less. Amendments over 40 acres are taken to the Met Council for action, but are also handled on a faster track than full Comprehensive Plan reviews. The City Council discussed the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan during their December 11, 2001, meeting. The City Council asked that a case be prepared and the action be placed on the Council agenda of December 18, 2001. The Council suggested including the language adopted by the City Council on September 25,2001, which changed the Central Planning Area to Central Rural Preserve Area. Staff has made the changes as directed by the Council. Staff is, therefore, recommending that the City Council adopt the Comprehensive Plan submitted and reviewed by the Met Council on March 28, 2001. Subsequently, the City will continue its process on the amendments to the March 28, 2001 draft and hold the public hearing for those changes as scheduled on January 24, 2002, and submit those amendments to the Met Council sometime in February 2002. Councilmember Kurak stated that they have gone through a lot of negotiations with a facilitator to develop amendments to the Plan and she was not comfortable with ratifying a Plan without those amendments, but it looks as though they have to in order to comply with State Statute. Motion by Councilmember Kurak, seconded by Councilmember Anderson, to authorize the City adopt the 2020 Comprehensive Plan update as reviewed by the Metropolitan Council on March. 28, 2001, with the addition of the language regarding the Central Rural Preserve Area (in the place of the Central Planning Area) reviewed by the City Council at the September 25, 2001 meeting, changing the word "Preserve" to "Reserve", and noting the intention of implementing the amendments in a timely fashion. 't'- ~ ~ \>., . i) ~ <9 ~ ~ e&r~ ~ ~~ L-'-c.~. Further discussion: Councilmember Hendriksen inquired if the motion was that the approval is contingent upon the Central Rural Reserve Area language being included in the Plan. City Administrator Norman replied that the assumption is that the Central Rural Reserve Area language is included in the Plan. Councilmember Kurak stated that she wanted to make it clear that if she had a choice she would not be making the motion, but they are required to do so by State Statute. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that what he was asking is that if the Central Rural Reserve Area language is not accepted by the Met Council then the adoption of the Plan would not be binding. Councilmember Kurak replied that that is what her motion was. . She wanted the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan to be contingent upon the Central Rural Reserve Area language being included in the Plan. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that once the Comprehensive Plan has been voted on there is no assurance that they will get the other changes they would like to see. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Kurak, and Anderson. Voting No: Councilmembers Hendriksen and Zimmerman. Case #10: Comprehensive Plan Amendment Direction City Administrator Nonnan stated that the City has been working with facilitator Lany Bakken during the past several months to change language from the March 28, 2001 draft of the Comprehensive Plan. In recent weeks, staff has been working on the text changes that were discussed at the Council workshops. Duri~g the Council meeting of December 11, 2001, the City CouncillDecember 18, 2001 Page 22 of 27