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<br />~~~ Metropolitan Council <br />~~ <br />~~ July 8, 2008 <br /> <br />If' -'",:-~..---.,.~---.-- -"-'"; l~tt,<'r'r'----'~'-- ." <br /> <br />Mr. Dallas Larson <br />City Administrator <br />City of Centerville <br />1880 Main St. <br />Centerville, MN 55038 <br /> <br />,I <br />,- <br /> <br /> <br />RE: Request for Extension of Time to Complete Review and Amendment of Local Comprehensive <br />Plans <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Larson: <br /> <br />Minnesota Statutes section 473.864 requires all metropolitan area units of government to review and, if <br />necessary, amend their entire comprehensive plans, fiscal devices, and official controls at least once every <br />ten years. This "decennial" review requirement ensures that comprehensive plans conform to <br />metropolitan system plans and ensures that fiscal devices and official controls do not conflict with <br />comprehensive plans or permit activities that conflict with metropolitan system plans. By statute, plan <br />updates and amendments must be completed by December 3 I, 2008. <br /> <br />However, Minnesota Statutes section 473.864, subdivision 2, authorizes the Metropolitan Council to <br />grant extensions to local governments that require additional time to complete their "decennial" review <br />obligations and make necessary amendments to their comprehensive plans, fiscal devices, and official <br />controls. At its June 25, 2008 meeting, the Metropolitan Council adopted a resolution which states that <br />local units of government may request an extension of the December 31,2008, "decennial" review <br />deadline to May 29,2009, if the request includes a reasonably detailed timetable and plan for: (I) <br />completing and submitting the comprehensive plan update to the Metropolitan Council, and (2) reviewing <br />and amending fiscal devices and otTicial controls. <br /> <br />If your city/township/county intends to request an extension, your local governing body must adopt a <br />resolution requesting additional time and must provide a timetable and a plan for completion and <br />submittal of the comprehensive plan update to the Metropolitan Council to no later than May 29, 2009. <br />To have your request considered, the completed request form and accompanying resolution must be <br />received at the Metropolitan Council offices by November 1,2008. The Metropolitan Council will <br />respond by letter to extension requests, indicating whether the request has been granted. <br /> <br />I would like to call your attention to some important guidelines which the Metropolitan Council has <br />adopted that will apply if your community requests an extension to May 29, 2009: <br /> <br />I. Staff may administratively grant an extension to May 29, 2009 for submittal of the 2008 <br />comprehensive plan update if (a) a community submits the extension request and required <br />materials by November I, 2008; and (b) the request includes a reasonably detailed timetable and <br />plan for completing the review and amendment of the comprehensive plan update, the <br />community's fiscal devices, and the community's official controls. The mandatory 6-month <br />adjacent jurisdiction review process must be completed by that submittal date. <br /> <br />2. Communities identifying conflicts in forecasts or obstacles to plan completion may be asked to <br />meet with Metropolitan Council staff and/or Metropolitan Council member(s) for their district to <br />resolve outstanding issues. <br /> <br />3. If a comprehensive plan update cannot be submitted by May 29, 2009, with the mandatory 6- <br />month adjacent community review complete, an extension of the submittal date will require <br /> <br />\\-\V\V. rnctJ'{)( 'C) till (' il. 0 r<~ <br /> <br />:FJO [\O!JCTt SilTcll\'orih . SI.l'aI1LIVlN551O! J,')O;)' ((51)602-iO()(). Fa'(1651)602155()' Tn'(651) 291-()904 <br />