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The City is a participant in the Livable Communities Program and has prepared and submitted to the Council an Action Plan with housing goals for affordability, lifecycle options and densities consistent with regional objectives. The city may reference the Action Plan in the implementation section of the plan update and include any additional plans based on the city's assessment of housing needs to 2020. Implementation Program Capital Improvement Prog-ram (CIP). Minn, Stat. 473.859 requires that comprehensive plans include a CIP for transportation, sewers, water supply, parks and open space facilities. The content of a CIP is defined in Minn. Stat. 473.852 (4). The 1994 plan should be updated to include a five-year CIP. Local Controls. Indicate whether revisions or amendments are needed in the City's local controls, including zoning and subdivision ordinances. Under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act, local controls must be revised to be consistent with a community's comprehensive plan update. In addition, local controls must include sufficient information to enable both the City and the Council to determine their impact on metropolitan systems. Regional Systems Comments on the conformity of the plan with the regional system plans follows -- Transportation -- Ann Braden, 602-1705 This section addresses such issues as (l) traffic and its relationship to planned land uses, (2) proposed improvements to the network of roads and (3) impacts of planned land uses on transit facilities and strategies. A review of the plan indicates the following: Traffic forecast. Include a traffic forecast related to the Council's 2020 household and employment forecasts. Traffic assignment zones (T AZ). Include allocations of the Council's 2020 household and employment forecasts to the City's T AZs. Impact on transit. Include a description of how planned land uses will affect transit service or transit facilities, either positively or negatively. Access management. Access management is defined as the process of providing access to adjacent land development whil~preserving the appropriate flow of traffic on surrounding roadways in terms of safety, capacity and speed. The plan should include guidelines, policies and a process for managing access to arterial roads within the community. Increasing congestion on regional roads means that minor arterials within a community will be expected to carry more traffic. Cities should have policies or ordinances to manage access on "A" minor arterials that are implemented when development and/or redevelopment occurs. Pedestrian and bike systems. Inclusion of pedestrianlbicyc1e system elements within comprehensive plans is a regional funding requirement, should the city ever desire to apply for regional ISTEA funding. The 1994 plan stated that a pathway plan would be prepared. If it is completed it should be added to this plan.