2000 Minnesota Statutes

     473.851 Legislative findings and purpose. 

    The legislature finds and declares that the local 
 governmental units within the metropolitan area are 
 interdependent, that the growth and patterns of urbanization 
 within the area create the need for additional state, 
 metropolitan and local public services and facilities and 
 increase the danger of air and water pollution and water 
 shortages, and that developments in one local governmental unit 
 may affect the provision of regional capital improvements for 
 sewers, transportation, airports, water supply, and regional 
 recreation open space.  Since problems of urbanization and 
 development transcend local governmental boundaries, there is a 
 need for the adoption of coordinated plans, programs and 
 controls by all local governmental units and school districts in 
 order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents 
 of the metropolitan area and to ensure coordinated, orderly and 
 economic development.  Therefore, it is the purpose of sections 
 462.355, subdivision 4, 473.175, and 473.851 to 473.871 to (1) 
 establish requirements and procedures to accomplish 
 comprehensive local planning with land use controls consistent 
 with planned, orderly and staged development and the 
 metropolitan system plans, and (2) to provide assistance to 
 local governmental units and school districts within the 
 metropolitan area for the preparation of plans and official 
 controls appropriate for their areas and consistent with 
 metropolitan system plans. 

    HIST: 1976 c 127 s 1; 1977 c 347 s 68; 1993 c 186 s 11