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February 1996 <br />Comprehensive Plan <br />Gem Lake, Minnesota <br />1.0 Use of the Plan <br />1.1 Purpose of Preparing the Plan <br />The Comprehensive Municipal Plan of Gem Lake has been -prepared <br />with the primary purpose. of guiding the long-term. physical <br />development of the City including investments in both jjvM -and <br />publicly oy%med resources. The City Planning Commission and City <br />Council have both recognized that. investments in physical facilities. <br />within Gem Lake are usually long-term fixed. assets that establish the. <br />development character of the City for many years: Accordingly; this <br />document has been prepared :ta firmly establish the maruter invwhich <br />citizens and their elected and appointed representatives wish the <br />City of Gem Lake to develop. { <br />This plan document is the dd Co. emive Plan prepared for <br />the City. The first plan waprepared in.1962 but was hot*officially <br />adopted by the municipal government. A second plan was prepared <br />in WO and revised in 1982:to meet Metropolitan. Council approval. <br />This plan draws freely upon the proposals of the 1982 plan, but <br />incorporates more recent development trends within Gem Lake and <br />in thedmmediate vicinity of the City. New goals and policies of the <br />City are also established.. This plan supersedes all. of the contents.of <br />the -previous plan .document. <br />The Comprehensive. Plan represents the collective position of the <br />City Planning Commission and the City Council at the time of its <br />adoption. While consultant assistance was sought in the preparation <br />of this plan, the actual recommendations. and policy statements <br />represent solely those of the City Council, the Planning Commission <br />and, to the maximum extentpossible, the citizens of Gem Lake. <br />While the. planis intended primarily its a policy document with.the <br />principal goal of guiding -the orderly physical development of the <br />City, the plan should not be consid a detailedprogram for the <br />implementation of City policies nor shQuld it b considered a <br />re6latory devicefor accomplishing,thisend. Rather, it -is expected. <br />that all plan procedures and regulatory devices legally available to <br />the City will be used in accordance with the provisions of the plan. <br />A-GEMLK95ol.00 <br />Page 1 <br />