1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to Metropolitan Council; modifying procedures and review period for
1.3 certain metropolitan programs; modifying certain reporting requirements for
1.4 expenditures; eliminating a report; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections
1.5 473.173, subdivision 6; 473.254, subdivisions 2, 6; 473.351, subdivision 3;
1.6 473H.08, subdivision 3.
1.7BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.8 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473.173, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
1.9 Subd. 6.Biennial Decennial review; legislative report.The council and the advisory
1.10metropolitan land use committee shall review and assess the rules following their effective
1.11date and at least every two years thereafter. by January 15 of each year ending in the numeral
1.12"5." No major alteration or amendments to standards for determining metropolitan
1.13significance shall be put into effect by the council until 90 days have elapsed following a
1.14report to the legislature in which after the alteration or amendment was proposed and
1.15recommended by the council in the form of a proposed rule published under section 14.14,
1.16subdivision 1a, or 14.22. The report to the legislature must be made during the month of
1.17January.
1.18 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473.254, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.19 Subd. 2.Affordable, life-cycle goals.The council shall negotiate with each municipality
1.20to establish affordable and life-cycle housing goals for that municipality that are consistent
1.21with and promote the policies of the Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted
1.22Metropolitan Development Guide. The council shall adopt, by resolution after a public
1.23hearing action of its governing body, the negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals
1Sec. 2.
25-00272 as introduced02/13/25 REVISOR EB/BM
SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 3148NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: XIONG)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading04/01/2025
Referred to Transportation 2.1for each municipality by January 15, 1996, and by January 15 in of each succeeding year
2.2for each municipality newly electing to participate in the program or for each municipality
2.3with which new housing goals have been negotiated. By June 30, 1996, and by June 30 in
2.4of each succeeding year for each municipality newly electing to participate in the program
2.5or for each municipality with which new housing goals have been negotiated, each
2.6municipality shall identify to the council the actions it plans to take to meet the established
2.7housing goals.
2.8 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473.254, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
2.9 Subd. 6.Distribution of funds.The funds in the account must be distributed annually
2.10by the council to municipalities that:
2.11 (1) have not met their affordable and life-cycle housing goals as determined by the
2.12council; and
2.13 (2) are actively funding projects designed to help meet the goals.
2.14 Funds may also be distributed to a development authority for a project in an eligible
2.15municipality. The funds distributed by the council must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar
2.16basis by the municipality or development authority receiving the funds. When distributing
2.17funds in the account, the council must give priority to projects that (1) are in municipalities
2.18that have contribution net tax capacities that exceed their distribution net tax capacities by
2.19more than $200 per household, and (2) demonstrate the proposed project will link
2.20employment opportunities with affordable and life-cycle housing, and (3) provide matching
2.21funds from a source other than the required affordable and life-cycle housing opportunities
2.22amount under subdivision 3 or 3a, as applicable. For the purposes of this subdivision,
2.23"municipality" means a statutory or home rule charter city or town in the metropolitan area
2.24and "development authority" means a housing and redevelopment authority, economic
2.25development authority, or port authority.
2.26 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473.351, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
2.27 Subd. 3.Allocation formula.By July 1 May 15 of every year each implementing agency
2.28must submit to the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission a statement of the next
2.29annual anticipated operation and maintenance expenditures of the regional recreation open
2.30space parks systems within their respective jurisdictions and the previous year's actual
2.31expenditures from the most recent annual audited financial statement. After reviewing the
2.32actual expenditures from the most recent annual audited financial statements submitted and
2.33by July 15 of each year, the parks and open space commission shall forward to the
2Sec. 4.
25-00272 as introduced02/13/25 REVISOR EB/BM 3.1Metropolitan Council the funding requests from the implementing agencies based on the
3.2actual expenditures made from the most recent annual audited financial statements. The
3.3Metropolitan Council shall distribute the operation and maintenance money as follows:
3.4 (1) 40 percent based on the use that each implementing agency's regional recreation
3.5open space system has in proportion to the total use of the metropolitan regional recreation
3.6open space system;
3.7 (2) 40 percent based on the operation and maintenance expenditures made in the previous
3.8year by each implementing agency in proportion to the total operation and maintenance
3.9expenditures of all of the implementing agencies; and
3.10 (3) 20 percent based on the acreage that each implementing agency's regional recreation
3.11open space system has in proportion to the total acreage of the metropolitan regional
3.12recreation open space system. The 80 percent natural resource management land acreage
3.13of the park reserves must be divided by four in calculating the distribution under this clause.
3.14 Each implementing agency must receive no less than 40 percent of its actual operation
3.15and maintenance expenses from the most recent annual audited financial statements to be
3.16incurred in the current calendar year budget as submitted to the parks and open space
3.17commission. If the available operation and maintenance money is less than the total amount
3.18determined by the formula including the preceding, the implementing agencies will share
3.19the available money in proportion to the amounts they would otherwise be entitled to under
3.20the formula.
3.21 Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473H.08, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
3.22 Subd. 3.Expiration by authority.The authority may initiate expiration by notifying
3.23the landowner by registered letter on a form provided by the commissioner of agriculture,
3.24provided that before notification (i) the comprehensive plan and the zoning for the land
3.25have been officially amended so that the land is no longer planned for long-term agriculture
3.26and is no longer zoned for long-term agriculture, evidenced by a maximum residential
3.27density permitting more than one unit per quarter/quarter, and (ii) the authority has certified
3.28such the changes pursuant to section 473H.04, subdivision 2. The notice shall describe the
3.29property for which expiration is desired and shall state the date of expiration which shall
3.30be at least eight years from the date of notice. Within six months of issuing notice, the
3.31authority shall amend the comprehensive plan and the zoning for the land, pursuant to
3.32sections 473.854 and 473.865, so that the land is no longer planned for long-term agriculture
3.33and is no longer zoned for long-term agriculture, evidenced by a maximum residential
3.34density permitting more than one unit per quarter/quarter.
3Sec. 5.
25-00272 as introduced02/13/25 REVISOR EB/BM 4.1 Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION.
4.2 This act is effective the day following final enactment and applies in the counties of
4.3Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.
4Sec. 6.
25-00272 as introduced02/13/25 REVISOR EB/BM