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CHAPTER 16 <br /> • Minn.Stat.§ 17.86,subd.6. Additionally, state law requires First and Second Class cities, <br /> and permits Third and Fourth Class cities, to have ordinances <br /> requiring developers to use properly placed trees in new <br /> subdivisions and on lands dedicated to parks and open spaces. <br /> Zoning in the metropolitan area <br /> Minn.Stat.§473.851-.871. In the seven-county metropolitan area,cities are subject to the <br /> Metropolitan Land Planning Act. Each local unit of <br /> government is required to adopt a comprehensive plan that <br /> must be approved by the Metropolitan Council. These plans <br /> must comply with the various plans of the Metropolitan <br /> Council covering such issues as transportation,parks and <br /> sanitary sewage systems. Once a comprehensive plan is in <br /> place, the Metropolitan Planning Act prohibits cities from <br /> adopting official controls that conflict with the plan. <br /> 1995 Minn.Laws ch. 176,§5 In many cases,official controls will have been in effect prior to <br /> (amending Minn.Stat.§ the adoption of the comprehensive plan. The longstanding rule <br /> 473.858,subd. 1). <br /> in that case was that,where a zoning ordinance conflicted with <br /> the comprehensive plan, the zoning ordinance would <br /> supersede the plan. However, the 1995 Legislature changed <br /> this ruling and current law requires that conflicting ordinances <br /> be brought into conformance with comprehensive plans, and <br /> prohibits metropolitan municipalities from adopting any <br /> ordinance that conflicts with the comprehensive plan. <br /> The Metropolitan Land Use Planning Act is based on the state <br /> Minn.Stat.§473.851. policy that coordinated land use plans, controls and programs <br /> that are necessary to facilitate orderly development and for the <br /> general welfare of the public since metropolitan area local <br /> units of government are interdependent, and problems of <br /> urbanization and development transcend local boundaries. <br /> The Metropolitan Council is required to establish a <br /> Minn.Stat.§473.853. metropolitan land use advisory committee comprised of at least <br /> 16 members,one from each metropolitan council district and <br /> such additional members as required to ensure representation <br /> of each metropolitan county. In addition, a chairperson shall be <br /> appointed. At least one-half of this land use advisory <br /> committee shall be elected officials of local government units. <br /> 387 <br />