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City Council Study Session Monday, March 19,2007 Page 5 Mr. Stark reviewed the requirements of the Metropolitan Council and the State of Minnesota in their mandate for and purpose of a Comprehensive Plan and that mandate for local municipalities, with the deadline for submit- ting the update in December of 2008. Mr. Stark reviewed the various com- ponents of the document; updates to the plan, originally completed in 1994; and the three primary alternatives for completing the required update by the end of 2008, and the pros and cons of each alternative: 1) Making "technical" updates reflecting the requirements set forth in the System statement; or 2) Creating a new Comprehensive Plan reflecting the current vision of the community and meeting requirements as set forth in the System Statement; or 3) Assessing each of the plan's 11 sections and 11 appendices to deter- mine which is still relevant and which have become obsolete, and to undertake technical updates of those relevant sections and recreate the obsolete sections consistent with the System statement. Discussion included the recently completed Imagine Roseville 2025 com- munity visioning process and how that work would be incorporated into the public comment portions of the Comprehensive Plan; difficulty of navigat- ing the current plan; Master Plan changes to the Comprehensive Plan over the years; previous heavy reliance on demographic and statistical informa- tion from the 1-35W Corridor Coalition and lack of rationale or ability in up- dating those reference sources; existing chapters recently written and need- ing little work; and staffs recommendation for the third alternative. Mr. Stark further reviewed staffs level of expertise and the time-consuming nature of Comprehensive Plan update work, and the need for outside con- sulting assistance; and budget implications and funding sources. Planning Commission Chair Mary Bakeman discussed the benefits of the re- cently-completed community visioning process; and ways to encourage on- going public input. Chair Bakeman and staff advised that a request for Council action was anticipated in April or early May. Mayor Klausing concurred with staffs recommendation to rewrite obsolete portions; opining that due to cost considerations and the good work per- formed by Councilmembers before them, it didn't seem prudent to start from scratch. Mayor Klausing questioned funding; but further opined that this