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4. Staging. As communities seek to provide urban services to areas which are not currently urbanized, the communities must specify in five year urbanization areas, the timing and sequence of major local public facilities in the capital improvement program and also the official controls which will ensure that urbanization occurs only in designated urbanization areas and in accordance with the plan. 5. Rural Area Policy. Areas of the community not receiving urban services must be consistent with the Council's rural area policy for land uses and protection of prime agricultural land. 6. Local Assessment Practices. The local government must have assessment practices that limit creation of vested development rights, to avoid premature requirements for the provision of urban services. 7. Housing. Local implementation of strategies and actions that: o Indicate that the community is providing its share of the region's low and moderate income and life cycle housing which includes a variety of housing types and prices for current and future residents; and o Allow for building mixed use or infill development and increasing the density of residential development (including along selected transportation corridors and at major transit transfer points). 8. Environmental Resources. Use of environmental factors to guide urban development. 9. Shared Services. Local plans consolidation and cost savings unit's place in the broader including relationship to school for service cooperation or as well as the government cluster planning context, district. Metropolitan Council MUSA Expansion Criteria In addition to aforementioned MUSA guidelines, the Regional Blueprint outlines specific criteria for increasing the size of an urban service. These criteria were used in the formulation of this Lino Lake Comprehensive Plan amendment. The City intends to demonstrate that its local objectives for land development are consistent with that of the Metropolitan Council. 4