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13. Implementation Background Implementation of Gem Lake's comprehensive plan will occur on a number of fronts, ranging from encouraging private investment to ownership and construction of public improvements. After formally adopting the plan, the city can insure it orderly implementation in a number of ways: * Policies (land use types and locations) • Regulations • Public Investments • Public Incentives • Public Services The comprehensive plan provides a rational basis for guiding development, making public investments, encouraging private investments and establishing the policies and regulations necessary to implement the plan. For the City of Gem Lake, plan implementation means weaving together the needs of citizens and investors with public policies, public investments and city regulations. The comprehensive plan establishes the background and policies for the orderly development and reinvestment in the City. Implementation strategies link plans to actions and resources. Public investments serve development objectives and allocation of available resources. Regulations can be a natural extension of the planning process translating agreed upon ideas into practical application, with the assistance of clear and publicly administer guidelines. The first implementation step is the formal adoption of the comprehensive plan. Plan adoption procedures are prescribed by state law. These procedures involve a report and recommendation by the planning commission after public notice and public hearing. This is followed by a 4/5 vote of the City Council. The significant elements of Gem Lake's comprehensive plan revision include: • An inventory of the physical and natural resources that impact public and private development • Identifying county, state, school district, watershed district and water management organization and neighboring communities plans and policies • Identifying, and coordinating with, Met Council system plans and plan review policies • Identifying current and future community values, needs, opportunities and objectives • Projecting population and land use trends • Developing a comprehensive set of policies by which all other plan elements are evaluated • Identifying economic development strategies and policies • Evaluating available vacant land • Determining a logical distribution of land uses within the environmental and natural resources protection framework •H 13. implementation I page 63