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Attachment C Community Development Department Memo To: Public Works, Environment, and'Iransportatiion Commission cc: Marc Culver, Public Works Director From: Kari Collins, Community Development Director, and Bryan Lloyd, Senior Planner Date: January 17, 2017 Re: Comprehensive Plan update process and PWET Commission role 1 Roseville is beginning the process of updating its comprehensive plan, and your commission, with the 2 assistance of Public Works Department staff and specialist consultants, is responsible for updating 3 parts of the plan. A comprehensive plan is a tool for guiding the growth, redevelopment, and overall 4 improvement of a city. For example, Roseville's current 2030 Comprehensive Plan identifies not only 5 a transportation plan, but it also includes a future land -use plan and develops a broader framework to 6 help shape the character of the community and enhance the quality of life. This update process won't 7 be creating an entirely new comprehensive plan, but rather recalibrating it to ensure that it continues 8 to reflect the community's collective vision for its future and align with the Metropolitan Council's 9 plan for the region. 10 Generally, the comprehensive plan aims to: 11 • Create and sustain the elements that define Roseville's character, heritage, and identity. 12 Influence the economic health of the community by attracting new investment and guiding it 13 to proper locations and by protecting existing investments through the promotion of strong 14 residential neighborhoods and business districts. 15 Shape the future of municipal government by identifying needed public improvements that 16 facilitate and sustain development. 17 While you are working to update the transportation plan, the Roseville's Planning Commission will 18 be updating the future land use plan. As you well know, a community's transportation network is 19 intimately related to the adjacent development patterns; the locations and types of development on a 20 transportation network directly affect the amount and type of traffic using the system, and the ability 21 of the transportation network to facilitate the circulation of people and goods directly affects the 22 adjacent developments. Because of this fundamental link between transportation and land use, it will 23 be important that your work is informed by Roseville's overall land use plans, just as it will be 24 important that the Planning Commission's work is informed by Roseville's transportation planning. 25 In the effort to provide information about the community's land use planning, we have included a 26 copy of the Land Use chapter of Roseville's current comprehensive plan. And we encourage you to get 27 involved with the larger process of updating the comprehensive plan; please visit our project webpage 28 (www.cityofroseville.com/Co=Plan) to learn about all of the relevant information and events that 29 will be a part of the community's effort to update the comprehensive plan.