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Background and Research <br />Figure 2: <br />Minnesota's Total City Population by City Size <br />5,000,000 <br />4,500,000 <br />CITY <br />NUMBER <br />4,000,000 <br />SIZE <br />OF CITIES <br />944,241 <br />3,500,000 <br />■ <br />>100,000 ..................5 <br />3,000,000 <br />75,000-99,999.........12 <br />2,500,000 <br />25,000-74,999.........18 <br />.e <br />2,000,000 <br />10,000-24,999.........58 <br />_ <br />011,000,000 <br />5,000-9,999 .............49 <br />1,500,000 <br />® <br />❑ <br />2,500-4,999 .............83 <br />34 864 <br />289,500 <br />❑ <br />1,000-2,499 ..........122 <br />500,000 <br />196,111 <br />177,994 <br />❑ <br /><1,000 ..................508 <br />0 <br />SOURCE. League <br />of Minnesota Cities <br />3. GreenStep should make extra efforts to include <br />midsize and small cities. Although we believe <br />large cities (over 75,000 residents) could <br />benefit through participation in a program like <br />GreenStep, most of these cities already have <br />sustainability initiatives, and other national <br />programs exist or are being developed to serve <br />them. However, midsize and small cities could <br />benefit greatly from a program to help achieve <br />sustainability goals. <br />8 Minnesota GreenStep Cities Program Proposal <br />4. The program should begin by addressing the <br />specific needs of cities. Developing a program <br />to simultaneously address neighborhoods, <br />townships, cities, and counties was considered <br />but found to be too complex to do initially. Later <br />GreenStep could be expanded to include other <br />sectors. <br />