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City of Arden Hills - Comprehensive Plan - DRAFT <br />14. IMPLEMENTATION (IN PROGRESS) <br />Implementation is required to have an effective comprehensive plan. The City must <br />use this Comprehensive Plan to help guide decision making, set priorities and <br />develop new policies. However, this document is not set in stone. The Plan must <br />be evaluated and updated as funding, priorities and opportunities change over <br />time. The vision, goals policies, and information in this document are meant to <br />support the City and provide a strategic framework for accomplishing City goals and <br />maintaining a healthy, vibrant, and stable community. <br />Most of the other chapters include implementation strategies specific to the chapter <br />they are in. This implementation chapter includes broader implementation <br />techniques that may include multiple chapters and topics. <br />14__7 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP! <br />The Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is the financial planning mechanism used <br />by the City to Ian for lona range and significant expenditures. Arden Hills has <br />adopted a five-year CIP that is updated on an annual basis. Each year the CIP <br />is reviewed and revised as priorities change more details are known and funds <br />become available for capital proiects and purchases. The CIP is an important <br />tool for the annual budgeting process because it helps guide the allocation of <br />funds for the upcoming year. <br />The Comprehensive Plan sets forth overall direction for the City the five year <br />CIP and the annual budget implement the goals and policies contained within <br />this Plan. Each year, all items in the CIP are evaluated in relation to the goals <br />policies, and direction in the Comprehensive Plan. This allows spending <br />decisions to be made within the overall context andfuture tanned environment <br />for the community. While it is important that the City's financial tools implement <br />the intent of the Comprehensive Plan the Comprehensive Plan cannot predict <br />every future need, project, or constraint. The Comprehensive Plan is a dynamic <br />document that can be amended, with careful review, to respond to unanticipated <br />changes in the City_ <br />14_2 Ordinances <br />One of the primary tools for implementing the Comprehensive Plan is <br />ordinances. The City currently uses a number of ordinances including Zoning <br />Subdivision, Floodplain. Shoreland, and Sign ordinances. Ordinances can be <br />developed to facilitate many of the goals and policies in_the land use, housing <br />DRAFT 105 <br />5/1/2008 <br />Deleted: In Progress.T <br />Deleted: Summary of <br />implementation <br />ntation measures from other <br />chapters% <br />. Formatted: Outline numbered + <br />Level: 2 + Numbering Style: 1, 2, 3, <br />... + Start at: 1 + Alignment: Left + <br />Aligned at: 0.25" + Tab after: 0.56" <br />+ Indent at: 0.56', Tabs: 0.69", <br />Formatted: Font Bold <br />Deleted: IP <br />I Formatted; Font: Bold <br />Formatted: Indent: Left: 0", Tabs:'.. <br />0.69", Left <br />Formatted: Indent: Left: 0", Tabs <br />0.69", Left <br />___._._--- -- _ <br />Formatted: Font: Bold <br />Formatted: Outline numbered + - <br />Level: 2 + Numbering Style: 1, 2, 3, <br />... + Start at: 1 + Alignment: Left + <br />Aligned at: 0.25' + Tab after: 0.56" '.. <br />I+I Indent at: 0.56', Tabs 0.69 <br />Foftrmattetl: Font (Default) Anal, 10 <br />pt <br />-1 Formatted: Font: (Default) Arial, 10' <br />pt _ <br />