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HomeMy WebLinkAboutChapter 1 - Executive Summary FINAL MC done (2)Rosemount 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 1 – Executive Summary 1-1 CHAPTER 1 : EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PLANNING PROCESS The City of Rosemount last updated its Comprehensive Plan in 2009, and is now revising the Plan to guide growth and development within the City through the year 2040. The plan has been drafted to comply with the Metropolitan Land Planning Act and specifically to conform to the regional system statements, remain consistent with regional planning policies, and to be compatible with the plans of adjacent and affected jurisdictions. Over the last decade, Rosemount has steadily grown, filling areas of the city that were the focus of the previous plan, including residential development west of Akron Avenue, the US Highway 3 and County Road 42 commercial corridors, and areas that were newly guided for medium density development. Other areas, primarily east of US Highway 52 have not developed as rapidly as expected, and the economic downturn of the late 2000’s delayed some of the previously anticipated population and employment growth. The City’s updated system statement from the Met Council projects a similar level of population and employment through the year 2040 as the former plan, but stretches this growth out over another 10 years. The 2040 Plan therefore focuses on areas expected to see the most pressure for change in the next 10-20 years while bringing the various elements of the plan up-to-date. The most significant change to the land use plan is inclusion of the University of Minnesota UMore Park property, which is now is guided for development within the timeframe of the Plan. New to the Comprehensive Plan is a separate chapter for Resiliency that builds off of the City’s various sustainability and resiliency efforts over the past several years. The goal of this section is to develop strategies to respond, adapt, and thrive under changing conditions. To help highlight the City’s commitment to building a more resilient community throughout the plan, various goals, objectives, and strategies that reinforce the City resiliency focus are highlighted with a shamrock in the margins of each Chapter. GUIDING PRINCIPLES The City Council charged the Planning Commission, with critical assistance from other City committees, commissions, and the public, to create the Comprehensive Plan. To guide creation of the Comprehensive Plan, the City Council determined ten guiding principles. Look for the resiliency shamrock throughout the Plan Rosemount 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 1 – Executive Summary 1-2 TEN GUIDING PRINCIPL ES 1) Maintain a manageable and reasonable growth rate that does not adversely impact delivery of services but allows the community to grow and become more diverse from now until 2040. Provide multiple development opportunity areas to ensure that reasonable development goals can be achieved and are not dependent upon any one landholder. 2) Preserve existing rural residential areas designated in the Comprehensive Plan and increase housing opportunities in the community to attain a balance of life cycle housing options, with special attention to changing community demographics and demands of increasing senior and millennium populations. 3) Promote commercial renewal and rehabilitation in Downtown and along Highway 42 while attracting new commercial development along County Highway 42 at key intersections: Highway 3, Akron Avenue, and US Highway 52. 4) Encourage additional high quality, job creating, and tax base generating general industrial and business park development in the northeast portion of the community, within UMore and the Rosemount Business Park. 5) Preserve natural resources and open space within the community and ensure development does not adversely impact ongoing agricultural uses until urban services are available. 6) Incorporate sustainability precepts into development decisions to move toward a more resilient community. 7) Collaborate and provide connections between the City and surrounding cities, townships, Dakota County and public and private schools in the area. 8) Work with the University of Minnesota to create a development that can successfully integrate into the community while achieving goals of job creation, healthy living, energy conservation, and public education. 9) Collaborate with partners and provide services and community amenities that benefit all residents. 10) Collaborate with appropriate agencies to identify transit corridors and bring additional transit opportunities into the community. PUBLIC REVIEW SUMMAR Y In order to help provide opportunities for broad public input and review of the plan, the City engaged in a multi-year planning effort with a focus on three distinct areas within the community. The review process for each of these areas is summarized as follows: Rosemount 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 1 – Executive Summary 1-3 North Central Planning Area: A neighborhood meeting and open house was conducted on May 25, 2017. Information concerning the planning area was reviewed at the fall 2017 community-wide open house. Southeast Planning Area: Meetings with affected land owners were conducted in April and May of 2016; a neighborhood meeting and open house was conducted on June 2, 2016. Downtown Task Force: A task force comprised of downtown land owners and representatives from the Rosemount Port Authority and City Council was formed in June of 2016. Monthly meetings were conducted from June 2016 through the spring of 2017. An open house to review updated downtown framework was conducted on August 8, 2017. In addition to the specific planning area meetings, the City sponsored two community-wide town- hall style meetings. The first, conducted on September 22, 2016 provided an overview of the comprehensive planning process and gave residents a chance to provide general feedback about the issues impacting the community. It was at this meeting that the City further refined the above guiding principles that provided the overall direction for the Plan. Towards completion of the small area planning work, the City conducted another public open house to gather community feedback on the draft Plan and to review the work of the downtown task force on August 8, 2017 Throughout the update process, the Planning Commission conducted a series of workshop meetings to review and provide feedback on draft documents. Additionally, the Commission met with the City Council in two joint work sessions with a focus on the land use planning chapter in May and October of 2017. The required adjacent jurisdiction review was completed in March of 2019 after a 6-month comment period, during which the City received seven formal comment letters. A public hearing for review of the final draft was conducted on May 14, 2019.