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• year and comprise 65 percent of the state budget.* In <br />1990 -91, state aid to localities will rise over six percent. <br />The most logical way to assure that these costs do not <br />• <br />continue their steep ascent is to make sure that growth <br />progresses at a rate that is affordable both to the state and <br />to the locality. <br />This study underlines the fact that it is fiscally sound <br />to concentrate growth around areas with existing infrastruc- <br />ture and to discourage growth on large lots in farming areas. <br />State support of farmland preservation is a fiscally practi- <br />cal method to achieve these goals. It enables farmers to re- <br />sist selling their land for large tract development and as a <br />second step encourages less expensive settlement around ex- <br />isting infrastructure. Over the long term, it preserves an <br />invaluable resource and it helps to protect farming counties <br />from the onslaught of unplanned growth. <br />*these figures are included in a 1/20/89 column in the Min - <br />neapolis Star Tribune by Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich. <br />44 <br />