HomeMy WebLinkAbout84-30 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1984/03/05March 5, 1984
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RESOLUTION NO. 84-30
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
1980 TO THE YEAR 2000 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK UNDER
MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park adopted a
Comprehensive Plan on December 16, 1981, based on statutes, the Metropolitan System
Statement, extensive research, and analyses involving the interests of citizens and public
agencies, and
WHEREAS, it is desirable and proper that there be a new Comprehensive Plan for
the purpose of providing the following:
1. An official statement serving as the basic guide in making land use,
transportation and community facilities and service decisions
affecting the city.
2. A framework for policies and actions leading to the improvement
of the physical, financial, and social environment of the city, thereby
providing a good place to live and work and a setting conducive
for new development.
3. A promotion of the public interest in establishing a more functional,
healthful, interesting, and efficient community by serving the
interests of the community at large rather than the interests of
individual or special groups within the community if their interests
are at variance with the public interest.
4. An effective framework for direction and coordination of activities
affecting the development and preservation of the community.
5. Treatment of the entire community as one eco -system and to inject
long-range considerations into determinations affecting short-range
action, and
WHEREAS, the use of such Comprehensive Plan will insure a safer, more pleasant,
and more economical environment for residential, commercial, industrial, and public
activities and will promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and
WHEREAS, said Plan will prepare the community for anticipated desirable change,
thereby bringing about significant savings in both private and public expenditures, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan has taken due cognizance of the planning activities
of adjacent units of government, and
WHEREAS, on June 23, 1983, the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities area
reviewed the City's Comprehensive Plan pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.175
and 473.851 through 473.866 and adopted Resolution 83-70 determining the Plan to be in
conformity with the metropolitan system plans, compatible with local comprehensive plans
and school capital improvement programs, and apparently consistent with other adopted
chapters of the Metropolitan Development Guide, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council has made observations suggesting that the City's
functional classification system be modified to include terminology consistent with recent
changes by the Metropolitan Council and to omit reference to Minnetonka Boulevard as
a regional trail corridor, and
WHEREAS, amendments to the Comprehensive Plan involve extensive procedures to
insure conformance with the State Statutes.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St. Louis
Park that the "Comprehensive Plan 1980 to the Year 2000" be and hereby is approved
and adopted as the City's Comprehensive Plan for all purposes desired, provided, required,
and permitted by local and state law, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Comprehensive Plan hereby adopted shall be
periodically reviewed by the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park and
amendments made, if justified according to procedures, rules, and laws, and provided such
amendments would provide a positive result and are consistent with other provisions in
the Comprehensive Plan and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that at the time of the first amendment, the modification
to the functional classification system, designation of Minnetonka Boulevard, and other
observations of the Metropolitan Council will be included.
Adopted by the City Council March 5, 1984
-&A W, ���
McKlor
Reviewed by administration: Approved and to form and legality:
ity Manager City orney