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Not Approved 12. Submission of a Shared Access Agreement for garbage and recycling. 13. Enhance landscaping to be provided, as deemed appropriate by the City Forester. 14. Addition of a decorative crosswalk to the eastern most entrance. 4 ayes, 1 nay. MOTION APPROVED. New Business: Commissioner O'Brien rejoined the Commission. Public Hearing: 2008 Update to the New Brighton Comprehensive Plan City staff is requesting that the Commission review the final draft of the 2008 New Brighton Comprehensive Plan Update and make a recommendation to the City Council. The City Council will be considering the final draft at their December 9, 2008 meeting. Following a Planning Commission recommendation and City Council action on the final draft, City staff will submit the plan to the Metropolitan Council by December 31, 2008. The Metropolitan Council has 120 days to review and approve the plan. Following their approval, the plan will go back to the Planning Commission and City Council for final adoption sometime around June of 2009. In May of 2007 the City Council directed staff to undertake a technical update to the Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of the technical update was to meet the requirements established by the Metropolitan Council's 2030 Regional Blueprint, as well as an opportunity to update maps, tables, and text to reflect progress made over the last 10 years. Since that date City staff has been working on revisions to the plan. O'Keefe asked if the recommended change to eliminate all language regarding City facilitated development would prevent the City in helping facilitate development if something should come forward at a later date. Gundlach replied that the changes should not prohibit city-facilitated development, but the current goal of the Council is to encourage private development. Zisla stated that he believes this change has gone from "one extreme to the other." Schiferl added that the Council has approved the overlay district, which facilitates redevelopment of an infill area. Gundlach stated that the previous plan of 1998 had a lot of public input and was very detailed, and because the Council requested a technical review of the plan, staff tried to avoid any changes that would alter the vision established in 1998. Zisla asked for a clarification of the section in the housing portion that was deleted. Gundlach stated that a sentence stating that the City was "exploring the possibility of implementing the International Housing code" was eliminated. She added that Council decided that some additions to the nuisance code could address some of the issues that needed to be addressed.