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10: MAYOR AND COUNCIL <br />A1: CLERK -ADMINISTRATOR PAULE' <br />DATE: JANUARY 6. 1989' <br />SUBJECT: LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM <br />rursuant to earlier discussions, staff has prepared a list of issues for <br />your cosideration as the legislative program for the City in 1969. <br />Staff did not feel that there were any local issues requiring <br />legislative action. Therefore, our recommendations are for issues of a <br />state-wide nature. <br />Many of our recommendations are based upon the legislative programs of <br />the League of Minnesota Cities or the Association of Metropolitan <br />Municipalities which have already been reviewed and commented upon by <br />you. The proposals of staff for the City's legislative program are as <br />follows. <br />1. Subject: Comparable Worth <br />Recommendation: Make no fu-ther changes in the law until the <br />current implementation deadline of December 31, 1991 has <br />expired. Any legislation on Comparable Worth adopted in 1989 <br />_ should be limited to directing the appropriate state agency to <br />collect data on the implementation of the law to use as a <br />foundation for future refinements. (Consistent with LMC and AMM <br />policies. <br />2. Subject: Land Use Planning <br />Recommendation: Oppose amendments to existing land use planning <br />statutes that restrict cities' flexibility to address unique <br />situations. The proposed leqislatian prepared by the <br />Governor's Advisory Council an Staze-Local Relations proposes <br />some significant changes to local land use planning authority <br />that will result in inflexibility. Some of these are, <br />a. Prohibits the practice of conditional zoning. <br />b. Requires zoning controls be rigidly consistent with the <br />comprehensive plan. <br />c. Proposes changes to the conditions for granting a <br />variance b� removing the requirement that it is the <br />minimum needed and allowing a variance when the property <br />cannot- be use fcr the "purposes intended" by the official <br />controls. Such language would require that all possible <br />intended purposes be listed. <br />d. Provides that a division of land into industrial/ <br />commercial lots of ',ive acres or larger is not a <br />subdivision. Such language could result in our having <br />uncontrolled division of industrial and commercial land <br />and prevent us from collecting park dedication fees. <br />�/ (Consistent with LMC and AMM policies.) <br />