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PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY This document summarizes interim economic policies the Metropolitan Council is proposing to include in its Metropolitan Development Framework (MDF), its regional guided -growth plan. The Council prepared the policies pursuant to its legislative charge to coordinate planning and development in the Metropolitan Area. More specifically, they have been prepared under authority of Minn. Stat., Sec. 473.145, which states: The Metropolitan Council shall prepare and adopt...a comprehensive development guide for the Metropolitan Area. It shall consist of a compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, programs and maps prescribing guides for an orderly and economic development, public and private, of the Metropolitan Area. The comprehensive development guide shall recognize and encompass physical, social or economic needs of the Metropolitan Area... The Council has responded to this legislative charge by establishing goals and policies to guide actions of metropolitan agencies, local governments and others to promote the orderly and economic development of the Area. However, the Council's role with respect to the private sector is not well defined, either in legislation or in adopted Council policy. This document summarizes proposed goals and policies intended to help the Council make decisions about projects that affect the economic development of the Area. Once adopted, the goals and policies will be added to the Council's Development ' Framework. The result will be to bring private sector needs and concerns into the regional planning process. The Council will use the policies for its general reviews, for its decisions on the development programs of the metropolitan agencies and for revisions to its policy plans. HOW THE COUNCIL APPROACHED THIS TASK In 1979, the Council's Physical Development Committee adopted the following objective: Because the health of the regional economy, particularly the private sector, is essential to maintaining the Area's high standard of living, the Metropolitan Council will study the regional economy in order to assess the impact of public sector planning on private sector decisions. The Council began examining its role with regard to the private sector by discussing a series of background papers prepared by staff on the regional economy. That fall the Council established an Economic Technical Advisory Committee (ETAC), consisting of 10 members from the business community, two from labor and four from the government sector. ETAC spent two years examining Council policies and considering potential roles for the Council with respect to the economy. It recommended revisions to some goals and policies, as well as additional studies. Council staff worked on those studies in 1982 and 1983. The ETAC reports and recommendations, as well as the completed studies, are listed with other background documents in the appendix of the document containing the proposed interim economic policies.