P&Z Resolution 2019-09 - Recommending the City Council Direct the City Planner to Distribute the 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update - Cultivate Hopkins to the Metropolitan Council Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 473.864CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION RESOLUTION 2019-09
A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THE CITY COUNCIL DIRECT THE CITY
PLANNER TO DISTRIBUTE THE 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE —
CULTIVATE HOPKINS TO THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL PURUANT TO
MINNESTOA STATUTES SECTION 473.864
WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes section 473.864 requires each local governmental unit to
review and, if necessary, amend its entire comprehensive plan and its fiscal devices and official controls at
least once every ten years to ensure its comprehensive plan conforms to metropolitan system plans and
ensure its fiscal devices and official controls do not conflict with the comprehensive plan or permit
activities that conflict with metropolitan system plans; and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes sections 473.858 and 473.864 require local governmental units to
complete their "decennial' reviews by December 31, 2018; and
WHEREAS, on April 1, 2018, the City Council of the City of Hopkins approved Resolution
2018-038 requesting additional time within which to complete the Comprehensive Plan "Decennial'
Review Obligation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, Planning & Zoning Commission, and the City Staff have
prepared a proposed Comprehensive Plan intended to meet the requirements of the Metropolitan Land
Planning Act and Metropolitan Council guidelines and procedures; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 473.858, the proposed Comprehensive
Plan was submitted to adjacent governmental units and affected special districts and school districts for
review and comment on September 12, 2018, and the statutory six-month review and comment period
has elapsed; and
WHEREAS, Hopkins Planning and Zoning Commission, pursuant to published notice, held a
public hearing on the 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update — Cultivate Hopkins and reviewed such draft
plan and all public comments on May 28, 2019: all persons present were given an opportunity to be
heard; and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes section 473.858 requires a local governmental unit to submit
its proposed comprehensive plan to the Metropolitan Council following recommendation by the
planning commission and after consideration but before final approval by the governing body of the
local governmental unit.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Planning & Zoning Commission of the
City of Hopkins hereby recommends the City Council direct the City Planner to distribute the 2040
Comprehensive Plan Update — Cultivate Hopkins to the Metropolitan Council Pursuant To Minnesota
Statutes Section 473.864. /
Adopted this 28th day of May 2019.
James Warden, Chair