HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-110 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2002/10/07RESOLUTION NO. 02-110
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN 2000 TO THE YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
INCORPORATING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP) 2003 - 2007
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 was adopted by the City Council on
May 17, 1999 (effective September 1, 1999) and provides 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
vanance 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 ecosystem and to infect 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 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, fiscal devises such as the City's 5 -year capital improvement program for
transportation, utilities, and parks is used as a tool to implement the goals and policies of the
Comprehensive Plan, and
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W1- EREAS, the City's capital improvement program is updated annually to incorporate
new projects and new sources of funding, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission reviewed the Capital Improvement Program 2003
— 2007 and found it to be consistent with the goals and policies of the Comprehensive Plan 2000
— 2020, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park recommended
adoption of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 to incorporate the Capital
Improvement Program 2003 — 2007 on, July 17, 2002, based on statutes, the Metropolitan
Regional Bluepnnt, extensive research and analyses involving the interests of citizens and public
agencies;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of St Louis Park that the
Capital Improvement Program 2003 — 2007 is hereby approved and the Comprehensive Plan, as
previously adopted by the Planning Commission and City Council, is hereby amended as
follows:
Incorporation of Capital Improvement Program 2003 - 2007
Reviewed for Administration.
Adopted by the City Council October 7, 2002
Contingent upon approval of the Metropolitan
Council
Attest•
Qy_y Clerk
Mayo