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<br /> - · Minnesota's system can be made the city's boundaries regardless of <br /> more efficient and less costly.: the the existence of county or <br /> Legislature should act regardless township controis, in order to <br /> of our comparative standing. ensure conformance with city <br /> facilities and services. <br /> · The State Department of Trade <br /> and Economic Development should · state statutes regulating <br /> develop a plan to assist local annexation should make it easier <br /> development officials in addressing for cities to annex developed or <br /> the workers' compensation developing land within <br /> concerns of business people unincorporated areas which the <br /> considering location, relocation, annexing city has designated as a <br /> and expansion decisions. growth area. <br /> - <br /> - <br /> LE-2. Growth Management LE-3. Metropolitan Leapfrog <br /> - <br /> and Annexation Development <br /> - <br /> - Problem: Unplanned urban growth Problem: Urban growth is also <br /> . outside of ciry boundaries has a occurring outside the metropolitan <br /> I' negative environmental, fiscal, and governance area in a manner which <br /> governmental impact for cities, might have a significant impact on <br /> counties, and state governments. metropolitan systems, somewhat <br /> encouraged perhaps by growth <br /> I Solution: Further urban growth management controls adopted within the <br /> outside city boundaries should be metropolitan area. <br /> I restricted and the annexation of <br /> urban land to cities should be Solution: The legislature should <br /> facilitated. Specifically, the League study the impact of development <br /> I recommends the following: moving outside the seven county <br /> metropolitan <br /> . the preservation of natural area as a reaction to Metropolitan <br /> I resource areas and prime Council growth management <br /> agricultural land should be programs and require land use <br /> I encouraged and the development controls which reduce leapfrog <br /> of such land outside designated development. <br /> growth areas to be served by a <br /> I city should be discouraged. <br /> LE-4. State-wide Planning <br /> · cities should be given broader Policy <br /> I authority to extend their zoning, <br /> subdivision, and other land use Problem: A renewed concern about <br /> f" controls up to two miles outside urban development has resulted in a <br /> 8 League of Minnesota Cities <br /> I <br />