Modifying the political subdivision definition under government data practices; providing a state policy of sound land use planning for greenhouse gas reduction through energy conservation, motor vehicle trip reduction and transit use maximization, modifying the municipal boundary adjustment law by expanding administrative law judge power for municipal boundary adjustments, defining urban or suburban in character, prohibiting incorporations after a certain date, requiring law judges and annexations to consider state policy and goals in annexing unincorporated territory, allowing municipal annexation by ordinance and providing a procedure, limiting payments to towns to annex taxable property, requiring chief administrative law judges to designate hearings for competing petitions for annexation and by specifying relevant factors for judges to consider in municipal consolidations, regulating city official controls by limiting city zoning regulations extension application to unincorporated areas with a majority of households receiving water and sewer services; repealing municipal boundary adjustments exclusive method of municipal incorporation, notice of intent to annex unincorporated property by chief administrative law judge order, orderly annexation in designated unincorporated area electric utility service notice, annexation by ordinance chief administrative law judge additional information requirement option and electric utility service notice cost impact, chief administrative law judge appeal from district court option, community-based planning, joint planning board and arbitration panel decision standards municipal incorporations
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