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31. The City Council is also concerned about the potential environmental impacts related to the operation of an expanded landfill over the next 20 years and the potential environmental unpacts related to a significantly expanded landfill footprint follov~ing closure of the landfill. The City Council recognizes that die Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has completed an Envirorunental Impact Statement on the proposed expansion of the Landfill, but notes dzat there are environmental impacts and risks inherent in dais land use which cannot be mitigated other than by limiting die expansion of dze Landfill. 32. The City Council has reviewed and carefully considered, along with all odzer materials submitted by ERL, the Voith Report. As set forth above, the Council recognizes the potential for some positive economic unpacts related to the Landfill. However, the council finds that: The Voith Report overstates the potential positive economic impacts of the Landfill, for the reasons set forth in the September 8, 2009 Memorandum from the City Administrator, which are incorporated in these Findings of Fact; The potential for positive economic impacts is only one of many criteria and considerations to be weighed in making a decision to amend the CitS~'s Comprehensive Plan; and • The City Council does not agiee drat a present value economic analysis of any proposed use should be a determining factor in making a land use decision. 33. The City Council has considered and appreciates dze efforts of ERL to mitigate the negative impacts of a landfill expansion, particularly on die important Highway 169/221`t Avenue interchange, by reducing the size of the proposed expansion in die revised proposal and by making an additional 20 acres of land available for potential development at the Interchange. However, the S:\Resolutions\Resole~ic~n_Denyul~Application_for_Comp_Plan tlmend_and_Rezoi~ig 2.DOC