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Alene Tchourumoff FROM THE CHAIR State law requires the Council to understand how our region is growing and changing, and to develop policies to ensure orderly growth. While the Council is good at identifying regional needs and challenges regarding housing, transportation and water quality, the counties, cities and townships are in the best position to make the actual plans to meet those challenges at the local level. We support seven counties and 181 cities and townships as they update their local comprehensive plans and submit them to the Council every 10 years. By the end of the year—the deadline for submitting updates to local comprehensive plans—we expect to receive the majority of the region's local plans. The result of all this planning is seen in the prosperity and livability of our region. Surveys consistently rate our region as having one of the highest qualities of life in the nation, and people born here remain in the state to work and raise families at higher rates than most of the nation. But our work continues. Regional prosperity is not shared by everyone. We have large disparities on measures of poverty, homeownership and employment between white residents and residents of color. Our region needs to redouble our efforts to eliminate these disparities. It's not only the right thing to do but the smart thing to do for our future. Online mapping resource pinpoints `address points' A new regional dataset provides pinpoint accuracy to nearly 1.2 million unique addresses within the seven -county metro area. It will benefit a wide range of public services from emergency response to municipal planning. The dataset contains unique location points assigned not only to houses, apartments and businesses, but also to such fixtures as water towers, power substations, transit platforms, bridges, parks and even vacant land between the built environment. MetroGlS, a regional collaborative hosted and supported by the Metropolitan Council, worked in partnership with the state, cities and counties as well as 9-1-1 and emergency response services to develop the dataset. The ability to easily and readily access standardized data from hundreds of different jurisdictions across the metro will save time, effort and taxpayer money. The dataset is free and available to the public via the Minnesota Geospatial Commons. It will especially be useful for urban planners, cartographers, researchers, academics, developers, and journalists who need data for a project or have other specific GIS -based uses. Council updates transportation policies The Metropolitan Council has approved an update to the region's 2040 Transportation Policy Plan, which provides a framework for how our region will support the movement of people and goods as we plan for a growing region. The 2018 update addresses trends that have emerged since the 2040 plan was first adopted in 2015 and includes new information. "This update will help guide thoughtful, coordinated decision-making between local units of government, the state and the Council," said Chair Alene Tchourumoff. "Good planning doesn't end after creating a plan - it includes checking in with government and community partners to ensure the long-term plans are on track, adjusting as needed, and accounting for new trends and information. This update is the result of thoughtful collaboration." The Council's approval in October marks the end of a nearly two -year-long process, involving many stakeholders and meetings, including technical staff, policymakers, and people in the region. In addition, another 150 people and organizations submitted public comments that are reflected in the final version of the plan. The Transportation Policy Plan contains detailed information about the region's transportation system, including highways, transit, and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. It also addresses regional freight movement and airports. It identifies policies for maintaining, managing,. and improving the region's transportation system. Those policies guide the investment plans for each aspect of the system. The plan is required by the federal government and must be updated every five years. Visit www.metrocouncil.org to read the updated plan. Combined sewer overflows are history The Metropolitan Council and City of Minneapolis have reached another milestone in joint efforts to protect public health and water quality. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently agreed to end a longstanding permit that had regulated the release of combined stormwater and wastewater overflow into the Mississippi River. "A combined sewer overflow into the river hasn't occurred since 2010, demonstrating that local and regional investments to separate the systems -and to reduce inflow and infiltration of groundwater and stormwater into the wastewater system—are reaping benefits," said Jeannine Clancy, Assistant General Manager for Metropolitan Council Environmental Services. When the wastewater system was originally constructed, there weren't separate systems in Minneapolis and Saint Paul to convey stormwater and wastewater—it all flowed into the same pipes. During rainstorms, the pipes weren't big enough to receive all that stormwater. Overflow pipes to the river were built to prevent sewage backups into homes and businesses. As recently as 1984, 350 million gallons of combined stormwater and wastewater (sewage) overflowed into the Mississippi in one year. But thanks to a multi -faceted, collaborative strategy, the overflow has been eliminated. Notably, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are the only major metropolitan cities in the country that are no longer subject to a permit related to combined sewer overflows. And this is the only region that made the decision to separate the two systems instead of building storage and treatment facilities for combined overflow. "We have avoided spending billions of dollars by separating the sewers," Clancy said. "Communities across the country are now under federal consent decrees to eliminate their combined sewer overflows, at a cost of billions of dollars." Household survey captures travel behavior Transportation planners have launched a year-long survey of how people travel across the greater Twin Cities region. Thousands of households are expected to participate using smartphones — a first for the region. When complete, the survey will help state, county and local governments build better roads and more efficient transit systems. The Metropolitan Council, in partnership with the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation, launched the survey of 7,500 randomly selected households across 19 counties to take place through October 2019. "This new survey is a deeper look at how people get around the region, giving us better data and a more complete picture of regional trends," said Council Chair Alene Tchourumoff. "Knowing how and why people travel in our region helps local governments make the right transportation investments at the right time." About a quarter of the selected households will participate through an online survey or by phone. However most of the data collected will come from a smartphone app developed for the survey. It will make participation simple and convenient by using a smartphone's GPS to securely and anonymously gather data on trips while improving the overall quality of information collected. The Council has conducted this study every 10 years since 1949. This year the Council is transitioning to collecting data every other year using new methodologies like smartphones to keep pace with rapid changes in the transportation industry. r�