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2.0 Use of the Plan Purpose of Preparing the. Plan The Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan has beenpreparedwith-the primary purpose of guiding the.. long-term physical development of the. City... This. includes investments in both privately and publicly owned resources. The City Planning C6ninlission and City Council have both recognized :that investments irk Ohysical facilities within Gem Lake are usually long-term fixed assets -that establish the development character of the City for many.. ye Accordingly, this document has. been prepared to. firmly establish the manner in which citizens and their elected and appointed representatives wish the City of Gem Lake to develop. This plan document is the fourth Comprehensive Plan prepaid for the City. The fast plarl was. prepared in 1962, but was not officially adopted by the municipal government..A second plan was. prepared in 1979, and revised in 1982 to meet Metropolitan Council (hereafter referred to as the Met Council) approval, and the third plan was completed in 1997_ Tliis plan. draws; freely.upon the proposals of the 1997plati, but incorporates more recent development trends within Gem Lake and in the immediate vicinity of the.City.. It also introduces a new mixed use planning area to the City. New goals and policies of the City are also established. This plan supersedes all of�the contents of the 1997 plan document. The Comprehensive Plan represents the collective. position of the City Planning Commission and the City Council at the time .ofits adoption. White consultant assistance was sought in the preparation. of this. plan, the actualrecommendations and policy statements represent solely those of the City Council, the Planning . Commission and, to the maximum extent possible, the citizens of° Gem Lake. While the plan: is 'intended.primarily as a policy document with the main objective of guiding the orderly physical development -of -the City, the plan should not be considered a detailed program for the. imnlementation.of City12olicies nor should it be considered a regulatory device for accomplishing this „end. Rather, it is expected. that all plan.procedures and regulatory devices legally- available to the City will be used in accordance with. the provisions of the. plan, The -.general time frame of the plan is. -approximately 1:5 to 20 years;. at which time ivis anticipated -that anost; if not all;, land holdings within Gem Lake will' bd committed to .some fora rz -urban development. C ty or Gam Lake Comprehensive Plan page ; e 2-t D. „