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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 7, 2018 Page 17 They take a look through the draft plan and highlight inconsistencies that would prevent the plan being approved by the Met Council. A copy of their comments was received in April, and there are a lot of advisory comments in the letter. What the Met Council marked as inconsistencies or incomplete have already been corrected. A couple of outstanding things will continue to be worked on from now until it is submitted again in six months. The Met Council review did not find any major inconsistencies with Council policies. Ms. Perdu continued that the Met Council is suggesting an update of their own forecast for the City of Roseville. Their original forecast was done in 2015,using 2014 population estimates. In doing so, their 2016 population estimates made it look Roseville's population was dipping, which was not accurate. Therefore, they have updated the population forecast, not the households or employment. They will update the forecast that the population will grow slightly, so there is not a negative number. They also adjusted persons per household. The table has been updated in the draft document. The changes made do not change affordable hous- ing population or future land use or how density numbers meet their forecast. Most of this is very technical language. City Planner Lloyd noted the timeline on page 4 of the staff report. The Council had considered reviewing the Comp Plan and authorizing distribution to surround- ing communities on May 21st. As Ms. Perdu mentioned, six months' review time must be allowed for. Most of the comments will come in much sooner. Some may never come in, because they have other things to work on. If the full six- month period needs to expire, that gets the City to November. There will be time to prepare a packet for the December Council meeting to submit the final plan to the Met Council. This gets potentially tight at the end of that timeframe. Staff recommends discussing the draft of the plan tonight and considering making the authorizing to distribute to surrounding communities. Councilmember McGehee thanked staff for their work on this. This was not the Council's intention that so much of the work was done by the staff. It is greatly appreciated. She commented that this was supposed to be simple technical update of the other Comp Plan. Instead it turned out to be a significant rewrite. It is not possible to get people to engage if they are not willing to engage. She would like to have discussion on the City's zoning code, impervious surface,heights of buildings in high-density areas, walkability, parking lot issues, and transportation issues. She believes the City has to have an overarching vision that matches with its policies that she is not sure is in place. This does not have any financial piece associated with it. For the Council, one thing that has bothered her about the is- sue of sustainability is affordability. She would like to think of some strategic ideas for the City, because it is an almost ideal location in terms of the kinds of things that can be done. She wants strategic planning to be part of the process.