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Metropolitan Agencies <br />improvements.This work should be conducted with opportunities for ongoing input and <br />consultation with local officials as any modifications to the comprehensive planning review <br />processes are considered.Local officials have identified concerns with the submission and <br />review processes for 2018 local plans including requests for information beyond what should be <br />necessary for the Metropolitan Council to review local plans for consistency with regional <br />systems, regional requirements that evolved as local plans were prepared and finalized and <br />finding plans to be incomplete or requiring detailed information on items of a local rather than <br />regionalnature,amongothers. <br />Inreviewinglocal comprehensiveplansand planamendments,theMetropolitanCouncilshould: <br />Recognize that its role is to review and comment, unless it is found that the local plan ismore <br />likely than not to have a substantial impact on or contain a substantial departure from oneof <br />thefoursystemplans; <br />Be aware of statutory time constraints imposed by the Legislature on plan amendmentsand <br />developmentapplications; <br />Provideforimmediateeffectuationofplanamendmentsthat haveno potentialfor <br />substantialimpactonsystemsplans; <br />Requiretheinformation neededfortheMetropolitan Council tocompleteitsreview,butnot <br />prescribe additional content or format beyond that which is required by the Metropolitan <br />LandUsePlanningAct(LUPA); <br />Work in a cooperative and timely manner toward the resolution of outstanding issues.When <br />a cityÓs local comprehensive plan is deemed incompatible with the Metropolitan <br />CouncilÓs systems plans, Metro Cities supports a formal appeal process that includes a <br />peer review.Metro Citiesopposestheimpositionofsanctionsormonetary penalties <br />whenacityÓslocal comprehensiveplanisdeemed incompatiblewiththeMetropolitan <br />CouncilÓssystems plans or the plan fails to meet a statutory deadline when the city has <br />madelegitimate,goodfaithefforts tomeetMetropolitanCouncilrequirements; <br />Work with affected citiesandotherorganizationssuch asthePollutionControlAgency, <br />Department of Natural Resources, Department of Health and other stakeholders to identify <br />common ground and resolve conflicts between respective goals for flexible residential <br />development and achieving consistencywith the CouncilÓssystem plansand policies;and <br />Require entities, such as private businesses, nonprofits, or local units of government, <br />among others, whose actions could adversely affect a comprehensive plan, to be subject <br />to thesame qualifications and/orregulations as thecity. <br />4-HComprehensivePlanningProcess <br />Metro Citiessupportsexaminingthe comprehensiveplanningprocesstomakesurethatthe <br />2022 Legislative Policies <br />46 <br /> <br />