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----..- . 1 . establish an indemnification fund to provide financial security for institutions and 2 individuals as they invest in efforts to recycle brownfields in order to leverage private .= 3 investment in cities' efforts to increase their tax base and create jobs; and 4 . continue the petrofund as a financing mechanism for cleaning contaminated sites. 5 LE-7. Growth Management and Annexation - 6 Issue: Unplanned and uncontrolled urban growth has a negative environmental, fiscal, and 7 governmental impact for cities, counties, and state governments because it increases the costs 8 of providing government services and results in the loss of natural resource areas and prime 9 agricultural land. 10 Response: The League believes that the existing framework for guiding growth and - 11 development primarily through local plans and controls adopted by local governments - -- 12 should form the basis of a statewide planning policy and that the state should not adopt a 13 comprehensive statewide planning process, Rather, the state should: 14 . provide additional financial and technical assistance to local governments for 15 cooperative planning and growth management issues, particularly where new 16 comprehensive plans have been mandated by the Legislature; - 17 . clearly establish the public purposes served by existing statewide controls such as - 18 shoreland zoning and wetlands conservation; clarify, simplify, and streamline these - 19 controls; eliminate duplication in their administration; and fully defend and hold 20 harmless any local government sued for a "taking" as a result of executing state land 21 use policies; -- 22 . give cities broader authority to extend their zoning, subdivision, and other land use - - 16 League of Minnesota Cities ,- :"'i I