HF 2167

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to municipal planning; providing standards 
  1.3             for a municipality's land use plan and transportation 
  1.4             plan; providing standards for planned urban areas; 
  1.5             amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, 
  1.6             subdivisions 6, 7, 18, by adding subdivisions.  
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, 
  1.9   subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 6.  [LAND USE PLAN.] "Land use plan" means a 
  1.11  compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, and maps, 
  1.12  and action programs for guiding the future development of 
  1.13  private and public property.  The term includes, including 
  1.14  strategies and regulations to protect future primary and 
  1.15  secondary planned urban areas.  A land use plan designating 
  1.16  includes a designation of types of uses for the entire 
  1.17  municipality as well as a specialized plan showing specific 
  1.18  areas or specific types of land uses, such as residential, 
  1.19  commercial, industrial, public or semipublic uses or any 
  1.20  combination of such uses.  A land use plan may must also include 
  1.21  the proposed densities for development. 
  1.22     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, 
  1.23  subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
  1.24     Subd. 7.  [TRANSPORTATION PLAN.] "Transportation plan" 
  1.25  means a compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, maps 
  1.26  and action programs for guiding the future development of the 
  2.1   various modes of transportation of the municipality, its planned 
  2.2   urban area, and its environs, including air space and subsurface 
  2.3   areas necessary for mined underground space development pursuant 
  2.4   to sections 469.135 to 469.141, such as streets and highways, 
  2.5   mass transit, railroads, air transportation, trucking and water 
  2.6   transportation, and includes a major thoroughfare plan, 
  2.7   including local collector and arterial roadways.  
  2.8      Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, 
  2.9   subdivision 18, is amended to read: 
  2.10     Subd. 18.  [PLANNED URBAN GROWTH AREA.] "Planned urban 
  2.11  growth area" means the identified area around an urban area 
  2.12  within which there is a sufficient supply of developable land 
  2.13  for at least a prospective 20-year 50-year period, based on 
  2.14  demographic forecasts and the time reasonably required to 
  2.15  effectively provide municipal services to the identified 
  2.16  area.  A planned urban area is comprised of primary and 
  2.17  secondary planned urban areas, as provided by subdivisions 19 
  2.18  and 20.  
  2.19     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, is 
  2.20  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  2.21     Subd. 19.  [PRIMARY PLANNED URBAN AREA.] "Primary planned 
  2.22  urban area" means the area that a municipality intends to 
  2.23  urbanize within the next 20 years.  All land within the 20-year 
  2.24  primary planned urban area will be available for development, at 
  2.25  urban densities consistent with local comprehensive plans, if 
  2.26  the regional or municipal wastewater infrastructure or community 
  2.27  system licensed by the pollution control agency is available to 
  2.28  serve the development or the development is designed to connect 
  2.29  to the regional or municipal wastewater infrastructure or 
  2.30  community system licensed by the pollution control agency.  
  2.31  Noncontiguous development shall either be located within the 
  2.32  corporate limits of a municipality or within the boundaries and 
  2.33  consistent with any orderly annexation agreement.  Noncontiguous 
  2.34  development shall either be located within the corporate limits 
  2.35  of a statutory or home rule charter city or will be within the 
  2.36  boundaries within ten years.  An agency providing wastewater 
  3.1   infrastructure must have wastewater and capital improvement 
  3.2   plans that accommodate the local land use plans.  The 20-year 
  3.3   primary planned urban areas must be delineated and local 
  3.4   comprehensive municipal, land use, transportation, and community 
  3.5   facilities plans must be updated every five years or more 
  3.6   frequently at the discretion of the municipality to modify the 
  3.7   boundaries of the primary planned urban area.  
  3.8      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 462.352, is 
  3.9   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  3.10     Subd. 20.  [SECONDARY PLANNED URBAN AREA.] "Secondary 
  3.11  planned urban area" means the area beyond the primary planned 
  3.12  urban areas that will accommodate the municipality's growth for 
  3.13  the next 50 years.