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BY M 5 JUN 14 2006 system. The Council has had the power to direct a change in the local comprehensive plan. 49. The Metropolitan Council reviewed Gem Lake's Comprehensive Plan in 1997. The Metropolitan Council adopted a report that contained the following recommendations, among others not relevant to this matter. 1) Inform the City of Gem Lake that its comprehensive plan is not consistent with the Regional Blueprint because it proposes Gem Lake will remain as quasi -rural (unsewered) and proposes no intensification of land use even though it is entirely inside the present MUSA and has good access to regional systems. 2) Inform the City of Gem Lake that it can adopt its comprehensive plan and that no plan modifications are required. 3) Encourage the city to modify its plan to provide for higher residential densities and intensification of land uses and expansion of public sewer to serve these land uses in appropriate areas of the community such as those vacant lands adjacent to County Road E_ 4) Encourage the city to use cluster planning techniques as it develops its remaining vacant residential land which would allow more economical urbanization of the community should public sewer and water be needed in the future. 5) Encourage the city to work with neighboring communities in the planning and development of affordable and life cycle housing. 50. The Gem Lake Comprehensive Plan was adopted without modification. The Metropolitan Council has not subsequently required amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. Based upon the foregoing Findings of Fact, the Administrative -Law Judge makes the following: CONCLUSIONS 1. The Administrative Law Judge has jurisdiction in this matter through the MBA under Minn. Stat. §§ 414.09, 414.02, 414.031, and 414.12. 2. - That proper notice of the hearing in this matter has been given. 3. That the subject area described in the Petition (A-7228) (D-417) is urban or suburban in character. Jsa Ex. U-5 10