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5 <br />DECLARATION OF METROPOLITAN SIGNIFICANCE <br />The Council could find the procedures of LMCD inappropriate and declare the <br />issues to be of metropolitan significance. It could then require a revised <br />plan be developed to meet the concerns found by the rniincil. <br />Pro and Con <br />The Council's metropolitan significance authority has seldom been invoked. <br />When it has, it has attracted a great deal of attention and a good deal of <br />activity to avoid the prolonged moratorium which it can impose. Certainly, <br />calling public attention to an unsatisfactory situation offers potential help <br />to a problem like this. <br />This choice, however, lacks a project, development or active planning process <br />to stop and, by so &.Lng, compel modification of something on the part of a <br />responsible agent. liF-e problem in this case is one of undesireable delay. A <br />metropolitan sigli.f!_zace review could not compel or speed action. <br />CRITICAL AREA <br />The Council could recommend that Lake Minnetonka be designated a Critical <br />Area because it meets the following criteria: <br />1. Is an area of significant regional or statewide public interest. <br />2. Other means of protecting the public interest are not available/effective. <br />3. The area is one of a limited number in the state or region. <br />4. The area must be described specifically enough to permit delineation by <br />legal description. <br />The following figures from an EQB publication show the designation process. <br />CRITICAL AREAS DESIGNATION PROCESS <br />LOCAL UNIT OF. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT <br />ENVIRONMENTAL <br />GOVERNMENT COMMISSION(ROC) <br />QUALITY GOARD(E11G) <br />MAY RECOMMEND CRITICAL AREA MY RECOMMEND CRITICAL AREA <br />IMY RE COME NO CRITICAL AIM A , <br />1 <br />. <br />1 <br />MOLDS A PUBLIC MEETING AND <br />REYIEIIS ROC ACTION AND MAY 1 <br />NOTIFIES E OF ACTION <br />REJECT OR GIVE NOTICE OF 1 <br />PUBLIC NEARING I <br />I <br />1 <br />MOLDS PUBLIC MEARIIIG A110 <br />EITHER PFJECTS OR SUBMITS <br />DOVEAIM <br />