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Metropolitan Land Planning Act Under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1976, the Metropolitan Council is required to review Arden Hills's Reuse Plan for TCAAP to ensure its consistency with metropolitan system plans for sewer and water service, transit, parks and open space, and affordable housing. The plan must receive approval from the Metropolitan Council before the City Council implements the TCAAP Reuse Plan through zoning. The City's zoning provisions must then be made consistent with the approved TCAAP Reuse Plan. Metropolitan Significance Rules TCAAP is one of three or four intact remaining parcels of land within the Metropolitan Urban Services Area (MUSA) that might qualify for designation as "regionally significant". Such a designation would be based on the parcel's location, size, and ultimate development potential. The last site declared to have regional significance is the site now occupied by the Mall of America in Bloomington. The Metropolitan Council bas the authority to initiate a process to determine whether a land development project is of such magnitude that it has regional significance -- that is, it cause regional impacts on metropolitan systems such as transit service, highways, sewer and water service and parks and open space. The Met Council can initiate such a review in response to a request from any of the following: An affected local governmental unit; A petition signed by 5,000 Twin City residents; or A letter from a state agency. If the Metropolitan Council determines that a project may have metropolitan significance, it can order that the project be suspended pending resolution of the review process. Formal review of metropolitan significance may consist of mediation, a contested case proceeding, a public bearing or some version thereof. Ultimately, the matter will be reviewed by the full Council to determine the outcome of the question. If the Metropolitan Council fmds a project to be of metropolitan significance because it affects regional systems, the Council can order that the project be suspended for up to one year, unless disputed issues can be resolved in the interim. If TCAAP is excessed in pieces, and subsequently developed in stages, it may fail most metropolitan significance tests. However, the sheer size of the property -- nearly four square miles .. suggests that a fmding of metropolitan significance would not be out of the question. Camiros, LtdjSEH. Inc./LHDL, Ltd. Chapter I TCAAP Framework Plan Page 9 - .- - - - . . . . .. - . . . I . .. I .