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Thrive MSP 2040 plan
released for comment
The Metropolitan Council invites the public to review and
comment on the draft of Thrive MSP 2040, the region's
long -range plan.
Thrive MSP 2040 is a vision for the region's
development. It will be a foundation for coordinated
and consistent planning between regional and local
government, and promote the partnerships and
efficiencies that foster prosperity, equity and livability
throughout the region today and into the future.
The plan reflects two years of outreach, discussion and
deliberation among Council members, local officials,
the region's residents, and business and community
organizations.
Thrive MSP 2040 takes into account projections for
population and jobs (see story, below), and anticipated
needs for transportation, wastewater infrastructure, and
community development.
"Our region's highways, transit system, parks and trails,
and the other community amenities that we enjoy today
were all planned," said Metropolitan Council Chair Susan
Haigh. "The Thrive plan will help support that quality of
life for future generations."
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ONE VISION, ONE METROPOLITAN REGION
The Council will hold public hearings about
Thrive MSP 2040 on April 10 and 16, and solicit
feedback through email (public. info @metc.state.mn. us),
the public comment line (651- 602 - 1500), and at
http : / /yourideas.metrocouncil.org online.
Visit www.metrocouncil.org for hearing details.
Comment deadline is April 28.
The Council is scheduled to adopt the final version
of Thrive MSP 2040 in May 2014.
Council revises 2040
growth forecasts
In February, the Council issued a revised 30 -year
forecast for the seven - county region that anticipates
a population of 3.67 million people, 1.51 million
households, and more than 2 million jobs by 2040.
In addition, the region will grow older and more diverse
by 2040 -40% of the region's population will be people
of color in 2040. Today, people of color comprise about
24% of the region's population.
The Council also issued revised forecasts of population,
households, and employment for cities and townships.
more residents
more jobs
more households
Overall, the new draft local forecasts indicate that a
changing mix of households will continue to increase
demand for development in the central cities and
developed suburbs,
One significant change from fall 2013 forecasts is more
balanced growth between developing and developed
suburbs. Also, the overall regional forecast has been
revised downward slightly to reflect more recent Census
Bureau projections.
Of the forecasted household growth, 17 will be in the
central cities; 279 in the fully developed suburbs; 47%
in the developing suburbs; and 9% in rural areas and
outlying rural centers.
Council demographers say the reworked forecasts reflet
improvements to the Council's modeling, informed by
discussions with local governments over the past five
months.
Visit www.metrocouncil.org to seethe full forecasts.
Reducing racial disparities will have big payoff
Council Chair Susan Haigh, in her
annual. State of the Region address,
challenged the Council and all its
partners in the Twin Cities metro area
to address the significant disparities in
school achievement, employment, and
poverty between the region's people of
color and its white population.
Without action, the region is at great
economic risk, Haigh and a group of
panelists at the January event agreed.
But if the region works together to
invest in equity, opportunity can be
within reach for everyone, she said,
disparity and move almost 300,000
people out of poverty over the next 30
years," Haigh said. "Imagine a region
where people of color have the same
high school graduation rates,
employment rates, and
homeownership rates as the white.
population." By 2040, that would
mean:
• 171,000 more high school
graduates
• 124,000 more people with jobs
• 186,000 more homeowners
Disparities like educational attainment .
and employment are both social
and spatial —that means they show
up more prominently in some
geographies —and that race, place
and well -being are tied together,
Haigh said.
The Council has a part to play in
eliminating these disparities, she said,
"For 46 years the Council has been
lauded for thinking regionally in order
to help our region prosper," Haigh
said. "In 2014 we open a new chapter.
Today, we move into a new era where
we think regionally and act equitably."
The primary areas where the Council
can use its policies and investments
to build a more prosperous region
through equitable decision- making are
community engagement, . housing, and
transit, she said.
SAC loan program expansion aids growing businesses
The Council in January expanded a debt service of the region's to participate in the deferral program.
program that helps small businesses award - winning wastewater system, VICES gives communities some
get started and additional businesses which helps keep the Council's flexibility; for example, the size of the
grow by allowing deferred payment of volume -based treatment fees among down payment (minimum 209/) and
up to 80% of the regional sewer avail- the lowest in the nation. the number of payments per year,
ability charge. (SAC). with terms of 5 or 10 years.
The SAC payment deferral program,
new in 2013, essentially allows
communities that receive a SAC
determination of up to 25 units on
a business to make the SAC
payments over a period of 5 or 10
years. In 2013, the deferment was
available only with a determination of
10 SAC units or fewer.
SAC is a one -time fee imposed by
Metropolitan Council Environmental
Services (MCES) to customer
communities for each new connection
or increase in capacity demand to the
regional wastewater system.
Communities pass on the charge to
developers and businesses.
SAC pays tens of millions of dollars Communities must make a request
each year toward the capital costs or and sign an agreement with MCES
Stay aware of LRT trains
More than 100 light rail operators are running trains along the
new METRO Green Line in preparation for the June 14 grand.
opening.
Test trains may operate anytime, any day of the week. In April,
Metro Transit will switch to operating trains on the regular -ser-
vice schedule from about 5. a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week to
prepare for the start of service.
Metro Transit emphasizes four main safety points:
• Always stay off the tracks
• Stay off station platforms until service begins in June 2014
• Look both ways for oncoming trains
• Cross only at intersections and legal mid -block crosswalks
Visit Inetrotransit.org /green -line- safety for safety information.
"This can make the difference
between having a business or not,
between being able to expand or
not," said Council Member Wendy
Wulff. "We have the financial
capacity to do this, and the impact
to other ratepayers is zero. I think
it's a great thing we can do for
businesses."
education, healthcare and consumer
goods, she said.
In total, these improvements would
region to grow and p
"Think of the possibilit sp prosper r our entire create nearly $31.8 billion more in
rosp e we can income to be spent in our regional
eliminate race-based income economy for housing, childcare,
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