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18 / Chapter 3: Using the Plan <br />Elk River Comprehensive Plan <br />Amendments to the Plan may originate from the City Council, Boards and Commissions, <br />or another party with a vested interest in an effected property. Adoption of <br />amendments, however, can only be accomplished by City Council resolution. <br />Measurements of Progress <br />The City should periodically review its progress on implementing the Comprehensive <br />Plan. The City could also consider developing a set of indicators to help measure <br />the progress of the Plan. City staff, the Planning Commission, City Council and <br />other Boards should periodically review progress on this Plan and make adjustments <br />accordingly. <br />In adopting this Plan, the City of Elk River makes a commitment to use the Plan as a <br />means of evaluating a variety of private and public projects. This evaluation requires <br />using a series of questions to consider the merits of the project: <br /> ·Is the project consistent with the land use plan? <br /> ·Does the project move Elk River towards its vision for the future? <br /> ·Is the project consistent with the policies contained in the Plan? <br />A negative answer to one or more of these questions may illustrate fl aws in the <br />proposed project. These fl aws may be fundamental and require denial of the project, <br />but modifi cations to the project that bring it into compliance with the Plan may be <br />possible. Negative answers to the questions listed above might, however, point to <br />a need to amend the Plan. In such circumstances in which a noncompliant project <br />underscores a potential fl aw in the Plan, then an effort to properly amend the plan <br />should be initiated. Not following the Plan in order to allow projects to move forward <br />will eventually render the Comprehensive Plan useless.