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MEMORANDUM
T: Otsego Mayor and City Council
FROM: Daniel Licht, AICD
DATE: 17 October 2012
FSE: Otsego — Comprehensive Plan Update
TPC FILE: 101.01
The City Council has determined a need to undertake an update of the Otsego
Comprehensive Plan. tsego's last major Comprehensive Update was adopted in 2004
with previous Comprehensive Plan updates completed in 2002, 1998 and 1991. The
tiring of this update is advantageous for the City as the economic slowdown creates an
opportunity for the community to pause and evaluate the activity that occurred over the
last decade and to consider and reprioritl a community r goals and policies t set a clear
direction for moving forward as conditions improve.
The Planning Commission and Parks and recreation Commission have been
developing draft sections of the Comprehensive Plan update over the last several
months, This memorandum forwards the draft Community Perspectives and Policy
Plan chapters as well as naps for the Urban Service Staging Plan, Future Land Use
Plan, Future Parks and Trails System Pram and current Transportation Pian reap.
The City Council will review the enclosed information at a work session on 22 October
2012 at 6:ooPM. The Planning Commission is scheduled to review the final draft of
the Comprehensive Plan document at a work session on 5 November 2012 with a
public hearing to consider a recommendation for adoption of the Comprehensive Pian
update to be noticed for 19 November 2012.
C. Lori Johnson, City Administrator
Tari Lof, , City Clerk
Ron Wagner, City Engineer
Ross Demant, Parrs and recreation Manager
Ander MacArthur, City Attorney