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• Metropolitan Council: informal comments were solicited and received on the housing affordability section of the housing chapter. • 5/27 CC Meeting: Council requested that the second two sentences be deleted under the paragraph titled "Housing Maintenance Code/Code Enforcement" within the housing chapter. • Council member Doffing's suggested revisions distributed at the 5/13 worksession Adjacent Communities & Affected School District Comments Included in the six month review period is disbursement of the plan to adjacent communities, affected school districts, affected counties and watershed districts. The Metropolitan Council requires evidence that these jurisdictions have been notified of the draft's availability. Staff distributed a letter with a return comment form attached. To date, the following jurisdictions returned those forms: • Roseville: no comments • St. Anthony: no comments • Columbia Heights: no comments The City's of Fridley, Arden Hills, and Mounds View have yet to return the comment form. Notice of the draft's availability was also posted at the April Town Hall meeting, in City newsletters, and on the City's website. To date, staff has distributed 3 CD's containing the entire plan and appendices. No comments have resulted. . Next Steps The City is required to submit a draft of the 2008 Update by December 31, 2008. The six month review period ends on November 291h, which means the December 9th Council meeting is the one and only opportunity to adopt a Resolution authorizing submission of the draft to the Metropolitan Council. Thus, staff would like to continue to work through any comments the Council may have between now and that time to ensure the required deadline will be met. If the Council is concerned with the timeline outlined above, the Metropolitan Council has indicated extensions may be granted to May 29, 2009. However, this extension may only be granted if the request is received no later than November 1, 2008. Included in the written request for an extension must be a formal resolution adopted by the Council outlining a reasonably timetable for completion of the draft update (including the six month review period). If the Council wishes to request an extension, staff will be prepared with a Resolution for Council consideration on October 28th Worksession Focus Staff will be prepared to discuss the contents of this memo at the worksession and welcomes comments the Council would like to incorporate into the final draft. Since the Council has primarily shown interest in the Vision Plan Goals, Existing Land Use, and Housing sections of the plan those sections have been attached to this memo. These sections are in "track change" format allowing easy identification of edits (all edits — not just since commencement of the 6 months review period). Any other section of the plan can be provided in the track change format, if requested. Staff would also suggest the Council bring the bound draft, distributed in April of this year, to aid in the discussion.