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RESOLUTION NO.
94-162
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN 1990 TO THE YEAR 2010 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
WATER RESOURCES SECTION
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 1990-2010 was adopted by the City Council
on March 5, 1984 and amended on April 1, 1991, and provides the following.
1. All 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.
6. Treatment of the entire community as one ecosystem 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, the Comprehensive Plan 1990-2010 is to 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
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park approved an
amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 1990-2010 on August 3, 1994 based on statutes, the
Metropolitan System Statement, extensive research and analyses involving the interests of
citizens and public agencies;
AND WHEREAS, the City has been informed by the Metropolitan Council of the
requirements set forth in the Metropolitan Council's Interim Strategy to Reduce Non:oint
Pollution to all Metropolitan Water Bodies, and recognize that the City's land use controls
and surface water management plan must include measures to address the requirements of
the Interim Strategy,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis Park that
the Comprehensive Plan 1990-2010, as previously approved by the Planning Commission
and City Council, is hereby amended as follows:
The Water Resources section is amended by adding the following section:
The City of St. Louis Park will apply National Urban Runoff Program (NURP)
standards or their equivalent for the design of new storm water ponds and the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's best management practices titled
Protecting Water Quality in Urban Areas or their equivalent to the review of
any proposed development occurring in St. Louis Park to reduce nonpoint
source of pollution loadings in storm water runoff. The City will incorporate
these standards and requirements in its surface water management plan and
land use controls to implement this policy.
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Reviewed by administration:
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Adopted by the City Council November 7, 1994
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