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What is a Comprehensive Plan?
Communities evolve and the best ones have a long-term plan to light the way. In local government, the ultimate torch is the Comprehensive Plan, which guides development and redevelopment and addresses changes likely to occur due to various social and market forces.
The Comprehensive Plan is meant to provide Edina with an outline for future development. The Metropolitan Council requires every city in the seven-county metro area to have such a plan and State law requires that it be updated every 10 years. Edina’s Plan includes chapters on land use, transportation, wastewater, water supply, storm water management, housing and parks and recreation.
What’s Happening Now?
City staff and community members have been working since 2016 on an update to the 2008 Comprehensive Plan, not a complete rewrite. This 2018 Comprehensive Plan has been approved by City Council and submitted to the Met Council.
What’s Next?
The Met Council has found the City’s Comprehensive Plan submittal complete and has until August to complete its formal review of the plan.
Read the Plan
The entire 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update submitted to Met Council is more than 4,600 pages long.
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Introduction (PDF)
- View by Chapter (recommended)
- Full report (reduced-size PDF) - This is a massive file that will take a long time and bandwidth to load. Because of the size, we recommend people view by chapter instead.
How We Got Here
The process to create the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update has been going on since 2016. It’s involved hundreds of public meetings, special community-member-led groups and multiple rounds of public comment/input.
Better Together Edina has an excellent summary, presentations, timeline and more.
Listed below are related documents and meeting materials from the process.
Comprehensive Plan Resources
- Responses to Comments Submitted to the PC on 11-13-2019 and City Council Correspondence (PDF)
- October 2019 Comprehensive Plan REDLINE (PDF)
- October 2019 Comprehensive Plan Draft (PDF)
- Draft Comprehensive Plan 5-8-2019 (PDF)
- Comprehensive Plan Comment Report 5-8-2019 (PDF)
- City of Edina Comprehensive Plan 2008 (PDF)
- Amendments to the 2008 Comprehensive Plan (DOCX)
- Comprehensive Plan Schedule (Subject to Change) (PDF)
- Met Council System Statement - Edina (PDF)