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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />D. <br /> <br />The closest case is Alliance for Metropolitan Stability v. <br /> <br />Metropolitan Council. 671 N.W.2d905 (Minn. App., 2003), which <br /> <br />upheld the Metropolitan Council's approach for negotiating <br /> <br />affordable housing goals to meet the goals of the Livable <br /> <br />Communities Act. However, the Minnesota legislature has enacted <br /> <br />a number of initiatives to address the issues raised by courts in <br /> <br />other jurisdictions in exclusionary zoning cases, including efforts <br /> <br /> <br />to promote affordable housing through the Minnesota Livable <br /> <br /> <br />Communities Act and through various amendments to the Land <br /> <br /> <br />Planning Acts intended to make it easier to obtain approval for <br /> <br />affordable housing, such as the removal of the super majority <br /> <br />voting requirement for zoning decisions. <br /> <br />Contract Zoning and Conditional Zoning <br />1. Generally. "Contract Zoning" is generally described as an <br /> <br />agreement between a municipality and a landowner which includes <br /> <br />a promise by the city to rezone land in accordance with the terms <br /> <br />of the contract and a promise by the owner or developer to observe <br /> <br />restrictions on the use of the land in consideration of the rezoning. <br /> <br />Historically, such agreements have been found to be an illegal <br /> <br />delegation or abrogation of the police power and invalid. <br /> <br />However, in more recent years, courts have been more open to <br /> <br />such agreements, particularly in the planned unit development <br />