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Master Plans as Part of the Comprehensive Plan <br />Master plans that have been prepared by the city (not by developers) should be included in the <br />comprehensive plan,, at least to some extent. Other communities, with sophisticated planning <br />departments, do this. Where a master plan has been developed by the city at considerable time and <br />expense, and where community consensus has been achieved, inclusion of the master plan in the <br />comprehensive plan captures the values that are reflected in the master plan and gives them some <br />degree of stability. To do otherwise devalues the master plans and makes them less useful. Inclusion <br />also fills out the generalities of the comprehensive plan and states to land owners, developers and <br />other the community's vision of itself for the future. <br />The rigidity of the comprehensive plan should not be overstated. Many communities around the <br />metropolitan area amend their comprehensive plans all the time. The process at the Metropolitan <br />Council typically is by administrative decision or by consent action. And so, if community needs <br />change, and the consensus evolves, the comprehensive plan may evolve. Including one or more <br />master plans in the comprehensive plan does not lock a community into a future that it does not want. <br />Recommendations <br />1. Preserve the neighborhoods of central Roseville and designate the Target and Har-Mar sites <br />as guided for "Community Business."' <br />2. Include all or part of the current and future land use master plans prepared by the city in the <br />comprehensive plan. <br />Submitted by.- <br />Karen Schaffer <br />Steve Burwell <br />Gary Grefenberg <br />Amy Ihlan <br />Dan Roe (Recommendation 41 only) <br />