Document - process/ work product - Guide to the Land Planning Act--Preface - 1/1/1976PREFACE
THIS COMPREHENSIVE GU_DE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF EAGAN WAS
PREPARED IN ORDER TO>ATISFY THE METROPOLITAN LAND PLAN-
NING ACT PASSED BY THE MINNESOTA STATE LEGISLATURE IN
APRIL OF 1976. THIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WILL REPLACE THE
"EAGAN LAND USE DEVELOPMENT GUIDE" DATED JANUARY OF 1974
AND THE "EAGAN PARS: DEVELOPMENT GUIDE" DATED MAY OF 1973.
THE FORMAT OF THIS BINDER BOOK WAS ADOPTED IN ORDER TO EN-
COURAGE PERIODIC AND TIMELY REVISION OF THE INDIVIDUAL SEC-
TIONS OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RATHER THAN A MASSIVE UP-
DATING EACH TEN YEARS.
IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE "COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLAN" WILL BE
A DYNAMIC DOCUMENT USED DAILY BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION
MEMBERS, CITY COUNCIL, STAFF MEMBERS, CITIZENS AND DEVEL
OPERS TO GUIDE THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY OF
EAGAN AND TO COORDINATE THESE EFFORTS WITH THOSE OF THE
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL.
IT SHOULD ALSO BE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE "LAND USE GUIDE PLAN"
MAP CONTAINED IN THE LAND USE PLAN SECTION (IV) OF THIS
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLAN IS NOT A ZONING MAP. THAT MAP IS
ONLY A PORTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLAN. THIS PLAN,
THAT MAP AND THE REPORT WILL BE REVISED PERIODICALLY AS EX-
TERNAL FACTORS IN PLANNING PHILOSOPHIES CHANGE. ALL ZONING
APPLICATIONS MUST BE PROVEN BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY, WITHOUT
REGARD TO THIS PLAN, IN ORDER TO RECEIVE APPROVAL OF THE
EAGAN CITY COUNCIL. THE PROPOSED PLAN, IN ITS ENTIRETY,
REPRESENTS THE BEST ESTIMATE OF THE COURSE OF FUTURE LAND
USE THAT CAN BE STATED AT THE PRESENT TIME.