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F'b. <br />9.- <br />'V?: <br />r1-‘ <br />U <br />I. <br />^i'.: <br />la-’-Mr-- <br />Pirfm.-. <br />f.'[.'V <br />0m^-0^. <br />bi-- <br />f <br />r>-: <br />0^?:v ’ <br />nvC^'- <br />^0 ■ <br />IS1st.. <br />0: b^;'- <br />»».- ■ te"Iv <br />i^:s: <br />mM:- <br />»^r v . <br />> ii ^^■■:. ■6*v <br />iSJ. <br />rs^=- <br />fe-'*-t ^ <br />mi-mW:. <br />H <br />METROPOLITAN COUNCIL Mears Park Centre, 230 E. Fifth St., St. Paul, MN 55101 <br />612-291-6359 <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />SUBJECT: <br />February 10, 1992 <br />Metropolitan and Community Development Committee <br />Research and Long Range Planning (Robert Overby) <br />IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW RURAL POLICY <br />INTRODUCTION <br />On December 5, 1991, the Council amended the Metropolitan Development and Investment <br />Framework (MDEF) to include new policies for the rural service area of the region. The new <br />policies became effective on the date of their adoption. The rural service area is that part of the <br />region located outside of the metropolitan urban service area (MUSA) and not designated for <br />commercial agriculture. The new rural policy affects townships cr cities that have areas in their <br />communities that are in the Council’s rural service area, and affec.s counties which have authority <br />(or an agreement with townships or cities) to plan and zone in t^e rural area of the county. <br />The Council will hold a Planning Forum on Thursday, February 27th at 9:00 a.m. in the Council <br />Chambers. The forum will explain the policy changes and discuss how local governmental units <br />should incorporate the new policies in their planning and zoning. A notice inviting local planning <br />staff and consultants to attend the forum has been mailed. Along with the planning forum notice, <br />the Council will send a copy of the new rural service area policies to all local governments in the <br />rural service policy area. A second planning forum will be held sometime in May, and will address <br />specific options for cluster developmer'. in the rural area. <br />ISSUES <br />The purpose of this memo is to '^xplain the following: <br />1.How will the Council review plan amendments ;'rom rural service area governmental units <br />until metropolitan system policy plans are amended to reflect the uww rural policy? <br />2.What thresholds or criteria will the Council use to require a local government to modify a <br />plan amendment that is not consistent with the new rural service area policy? <br />NEW RURAL AREA POLICIES SUMMARY <br />The new policy continues to uphold the basic rural density policy of one unit per 10 acres. <br />However, many of the policy changes provide more options for local governments to use in their <br />planning. There are two major changes that will affect how the Council reviews local plan <br />amendments as they concern the rural area policy and metropolitan system plans. <br />The first significant change is that the policy states that the Council may require communities to <br />modify plans that are inconsistent with the new policies: <br />The cumulative negative impacts of development that is inconsistent with the Counc.i's <br />rural area policies may have a substantial impact on or constitute a substantial departure <br />from metropolitan transportation and wastewater treatment systems plans. Therefore, the <br />Council may require communities to modify comprehensive plans that are inconsistent <br />with the [rural area] policies. <br />.... <br />J