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1-2 New Brighton Comprehensive Plan | 2040 DRAFT <br />The Metropolitan Council adopted Thrive MSP 2040 in 2014, which provides <br />direction on how to plan for growth including transportation, water resource <br />management, and regional parks for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region. Adoption <br />of that plan then requires local governments within the seven county metropolitan <br />area to update their local comprehensive plans to ensure consistency with the goals <br />and policies established for the region. <br />aN ON-GOING eFFOrt <br />Following the establishment of the MLPA, New Brighton completed its <br />Comprehensive Plan in 1980. Since then, the Comprehensive Plan has been updated <br />three times, in 1988, 1998, and 2008. Now, with New Brighton 2040, the City builds <br />off of almost forty years of comprehensive planning and looks ahead to the future of <br />the community. <br />The 1998 Comprehensive Plan was a major milestone for New Brighton’s long-term <br />planning. At that time, the City developed a Vision Plan, which emphasized places <br />to live, work, shop, and interact, as well as community corridors, gateways, and <br />neighborhood activity centers. This framework resulted in the Northwest Quadrant <br />Plan, which has been built within the last <br />decade, now called New Brighton Exchange. <br />Planning is an on-going process that <br />attempts to anticipate and guide future <br />change so as to maximize efficiencies and <br />minimize unexpected socio-economic or <br />physical changes to the community. With <br />a major goal of the City’s Vision Plan <br />accomplished with New Brighton Exchange, <br />the City wanted to utilize New Brighton <br />2040 as an opportunity to ask “what’s next?” <br />Over the next 20 years, New Brighton <br />will see change in many areas including <br />opportunities for redevelopment, infill, <br />and rehabilitation, as well as an emphasis <br />on creating connections between the <br />community’s parks and open spaces. While <br />New Brighton can certainly control some <br />aspects of change, others are beyond the <br />City’s grasp. However, reaction to these <br />uncontrollable forces can be directed by a <br />sound community-based vision that the City <br />of New Brighton has established. <br />Figure 1-1. Vision Plan Image (1998)