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Specifically, with regard to the Comprehensive Plan, the Planning. Commission has. the following major responsibilities: (a) to periodically review (not less frequently than biannually) and make suggested additions and amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, (b) to assure that all provisions of the. City's development control ordinances (or proposed amendments or additions to these ordinances) are in accordance with the principles of the plan, (c) to review proposed public capital investments.of the City of Gem.Lake. to determine their consistency with the Comprehensive Plan and (d) to review proposed private capital investments' within Gem Lake to assure that they are in accordance with the principles and proposals of the plan. While the Planning Commission's responsibilities are primarily advisory the City Council has prime authority in carrying out the plan's features — the Planning Commission nevertheless is considered to be the City's primary body in terms of making explicit interpretations of the plan's stated proposals. 2.3 Use of the Plan by the City Council The City Council is a five -member body directly elected by the citizens of Gem Lake. Council members are elected to four year staggered terms and the Mayor is elected to a 2-year term. As the primarypolicy making body of the City of Gem Lake, the Council has the following principal. responsibilities in relation to. the Comprehensive Municipal Plan: (a) to assure, to the maximum extent possible, that the policies contained within the Comprehensive Plan document represent the viewpoint of the citizens of the community, (b) to attempt to make in policy decisions in normal council deliberations that are consistent with the plan's provisions, (c) to make public capital expenditures and. related expenditures consistent with the principles of the plan, and (d) to exercise the ultimate review and adoption of all original plan provisions and amendments to the plan forwarded to the Council by the Planning Commission. 2.4 Relationship of Other Municipal Bodies and Citizens. to the Plan Beyond guiding the actions of the City Planning Commission and the City Council, the plan is designed to be an educational device designed to convey to all people in Gem Lake the manner in which the City is desired to develop. The plan is intended to convey the. unique assets, liabilities, and key development issues facing the. City in the coming, years. Citizens interested in interpretations of the, provisions of the Comprehensive Municipal Plan, or revisions to it,: are encouraged to meet with the Planning Commission at its regularly scheduled sessions. Comprehensive Plan. Gem Lake, Minnesota Page 4