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P, Focus on the Issues A legislative session update on matters of policy for AMM member city officials UANsPOUrwr ox-Housma Cotpiertrca(HF2172-OBF=w; BF1896-PAPPes). his proposal would require the Metropolitan Council by Jan. 1, 1995,to establish criteria by which the Council will define"sector"for a proposed highway project.After Jan. 1, 1996,the Council will not approve a highway project to increase capacity in a"sector" unless at least 50 percent of the cities are certified as meeting the comprehensive choice housing requirements.Within the sector,a city not meeting these requirements will be denied increased highway access. This transportation funding bill would modify the 'state transportation plan by adding a Also,the bill would require consideration of the requirement to establish metropolitan area effects of a highway improvement in such area objectives and strategies to stabilize and enhance as land use, low and moderate income housing, the economic health of the central cities, fully and social and economic isolation of low income developed area and metropolitan area as a populations from economic growth whole. opportunities. The Metropolitan Development Guide would be Metropolitan transit goals would be modified modified to include procedures that determine if to consider stabilization and enhancement of a highway project capacity improvement could the social and economic health of the area by be made at a lesser cost and having less ensuring hwisit services, especially environmental impact through a transit connecting central cities to areas with improvement _ employment opportunities.