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394.24 OFFICIAL CONTROLS.
    Subdivision 1. Adopted by ordinance. Official controls which shall further the purpose
and objectives of the comprehensive plan and parts thereof shall be adopted by ordinance. The
comprehensive plan must provide guidelines for the timing and sequence of the adoption of
official controls to ensure planned, orderly, and staged development and redevelopment consistent
with the comprehensive plan.
    Subd. 2. Municipality may request inclusion. Official controls adopted by a board
shall apply to and be binding upon the county or any parts thereof including areas within the
incorporated limits of a municipality, when requested by the municipality under section 394.32.
    Subd. 3. Outside metro, state, federal land. For the area within which official controls
adopted by the board are effective, such controls shall apply to the use of land for both private and
public purposes, provided that the need for adequate, timely and convenient public and semipublic
services and facilities must receive due consideration in the formulation, administration and
enforcement of all official controls and no land owned or leased by the federal or state government
shall be subject to official controls of the county. With respect to the use of land for public
purposes, the provisions of this subdivision shall not apply in the metropolitan area as described
in section 473.121.
History: 1959 c 559 s 4; 1963 c 692 s 2; 1974 c 571 s 9-11; 1980 c 509 s 150; 1995 c 186 s
119; 1997 c 202 art 4 s 6

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