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3, Continuation of the orderly development of residential land uses. The 1994 Comprehensive Plan was the fourth comprehensive planning program. Now with a population of 34,525, the year 2000 update to the 1994 comprehensive plan was intended to keep the document current as to statistics and programs. Roseville's Comprehensive Plan is intended to meet specific short-range (3-5 years) and long-range (10-15 years) objectives and the needs of the City, while at the same time dealing with the county and regional needs and objectives of the larger area surrounding Roseville. An understanding of the objectives of regional planning is necessary for proper appreciation of the role the City of Roseville has within the larger regional context. There are several historical books about Roseville, including: The Historu of Roseville, Volume 1; Roseville The Storv of Its Growth; Lexin�ton School: Its Story, Its Communit�a , Note: For general reference, the City Street Map is included at the end of this section. B. Regional Planning Planning at the regional level may be defined as physical and infrastructure planning in a comprehensive manner for a geographic area united by common economic interests, geography, and/or common area-wide development problems. The need for such planning has been brought about by the important social, economic, and political changes which have far reaching impacts on local units of government such as Roseville. Changes include population growth and age changes, urbanization, sprawl, demand for affordable housing, worker shortages, traffic congestion and the redevelopment of limited access highway systems, transit design and adjacent development, increasing agricultural and industrial productivity, rising income levels and leisure time, recreational needs and pursuits, intensive uses, and consumption of natural resources and proliferation of public and private water supplies and sewage disposal systems, and the development of extensive and inter-related power and communication networks. These changes have created region-wide development concerns of an unprecedented scale and complexity. In order to deal with these problems effectively, the Legislature of the State of Minnesota adopted the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1976 which required all local units of government within the seven county metropolitan area to prepare comprehensive land use plans which would deal with policies, standards, and programs to guide public and private land use, development, redevelopment, and preservation of lands and waters within its jurisdiction. Specifically, the local comprehensive plans are required to include planning elements which affect metropolitan systems, including housing, land use, transportation, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, parks and open space. In Roseville Comprehensive Plan — 200 1 Update The Plan & Updating Process � Page 2 of 9