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ffect of this decline on the two a Fully Developed * hies' tax bases and provision of Area services was a matter of concern. Commercial Also of growing concern at Agricultural Area Anoka County this time were the disappearance Developing Area of agricultural land at an alarming 0 General Rural Use Area rate, the state of transit and trans- • Metropolitan portation, the need for parks and Centers • • • open sace increasing disparities ■ FreestandingGrowth Washington in the fiscal conditions of the Centers County Regional Business He�tnrp County region's cities and townships, and >n _ v � Ramsey Concentrations County a lack of solid waste sites. • ♦ A Intense concern about these . Rural Centers • • emergent problems readied the • -.011-*:-'' ■ • it. '''?i.;• region region for a comprehensive growth ,•gCttuuap iia • ■ strategy. Additionally, its balkan- • • ization argued for a strong re- • 4 • . gional entity to carry out such a . ., `s. • • strategy(or, alternately, for mas- Carver County Bloomin sive state-ordered annexation to • reduce the number of players). In 1967, the Met Council wasZ • established, replacing the Twin lakilla County • Cities Metropolitan Planning 116 Scott County Commission,which had func- .—' tioned since 1957 much like other • • • councils of government.The Met •• inkCouncil exists at a midpoint be—it—%—j ween the state government and local governments. Its raison d'être is to initiate,coordinate,re- view,and approve undertakings services boundary—Metropolitan various timing mechanisms, but of regional significance.The gov- Urban Service Area(MUSA)— eventually decided against it be- ernor appoints the chair and 16 within which urban services would cause of its potential for driving members to staggered four-year be confined,and designated areas up land prices and housing costs. terms.The council sets policies where new development would For the same reason, it drew the that are implemented in part by be encouraged or discouraged MUSA boundary generously— other metropolitan agencies: the (see map).Development would be some say too generously. Metropolitan Airports Commis- encouraged in metropolitan centers sion,Metropolitan Parks and (Minneapolis and St.Paul),regional Fiscal Disparities Program Open Space Commission, Metro- business concentrations(major shop- politan Sports Facilities Commis- ping malls and office centers along A system that encourages devel- sion, Metropolitan Transit Corn- major highways),fully developed opment in some areas but not mission and Regional Transit areas, developing areas, and 11 free- others,creates winners and losers. Board, and Metropolitan Waste standing rural centers (medium- To help equalize the impacts of Control Commission. sized cities with their own employ- this growth-management system, ment base, housing, and public a tax-base-sharing program was The Growth Management services that are located in the rural devised. This program distrib- S stem portion of the region). Develop- utes the economic benefits of 3' ment would be discouraged, and new commercial and industrial A primary goal was to manage the provision of major growth-in- development throughout the the provision of urban services ducing infrastructure verboten, metro area. more efficiently by maximizing in commercial agricultural areas and The fiscal disparities program, the use of existing facilities be- general rural use areas. as it is called, was enacted by the efore building new ones.To that The council flirted with the idea state legislature in 1971. It is not end, the council drew an urban of sequencing development via operated by the Met Council.The JIAJidi 14.111']/ February 91 21