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Use of Plan by the City Planning Commission The Planning Commission of Gem Lake is a three -member body appointed by the City Council of Gem Lake. Members of the Commission serve at the pleasure of the City Council. They may be reappointed. Specifically, with regard to the Comprehensive Plan, the Planning Commission has the following major responsibilities: (a) to periodically review (not less 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. 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. The Mayor is also elected to a 4-year term. As the primary policy making body of the City of Gem Lake, the Council has the following principal responsibilities in relation to the Comprehensive 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 incremental policy decisions in normal council deliberations that are consistent with the plan's provisions, (c) to make public capital 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. Relationship of Other Municipal Bodies and Citizens to the Plan Beyond guiding the actions of the Planning Commission and the City Council, the plan is also designed to be an educational device. As such, the plan is intended to convey to all people in Gem Lake City of Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan I page 2-2