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General Government <br />2-G Administrative Fines <br />Traditional methods of citation, enforcement and prosecution have met with increasing costs to <br />local units of government. The use of administrative fines is a tool to moderate those costs. <br />Metro Cities supports the administrative fine authority that allows cities to issue <br />administrative fines for defined local traffic offenses and supports further modifications to <br />enhance functionality of this authority. Metro Cities continues to support cities' authority <br />to use administrative fines for regulatory ordinances such as building codes, zoning codes, <br />health codes, and public safety and nuisance ordinances. <br />Metro Cities supports the use of city administrative fines, at a minimum, for regulatory <br />matters that are not duplicative of misdemeanor or higher -level state traffic and criminal <br />offenses. Metro Cities also endorses a fair hearing process before a disinterested third party. <br />2-H Residential Programs <br />Sufficient funding and oversight is needed to ensure that residents living in residential programs <br />have appropriate care and supervision and that neighborhoods are not disproportionately <br />impacted by high concentrations of residential programs. Historically, federal and state laws <br />have discouraged the concentration of residential group homes so as not to promote areas that <br />reinforce institutional quality settings. <br />Under current law, operators of certain residential programs are not required to notify cities <br />when they intend to purchase single-family housing for this purpose. Cities do not have the <br />authority to regulate the locations of residential programs. Cities have reasonable concerns about <br />high concentrations of these facilities in residential neighborhoods, and additional traffic and <br />service deliveries surrounding these facilities when they are grouped closely together. <br />Municipalities recognize and support the services residential programs provide. However, cities <br />also have an interest in preserving balance between residential programs and other uses in <br />residential neighborhoods. <br />Providers applying to operate residential programs should be required to notify the city when <br />applying for licensure to be informed of local ordinance requirements as a part of the application <br />process. Licensing agencies should be required to notify the city of properties receiving licensure <br />to be operated as residential programs. <br />Metro Cities supports statutory modifications to require licensed agencies and licensed <br />providers that operate residential programs to notify the city of properties being operated <br />as residential programs. Metro Cities also supports the establishment of appropriate non - <br />concentration standards for residential programs, to prevent clustering, and supports <br />enforcement of these rules by the appropriate county agencies. <br />2-1 Annexation <br />Attempts have been made in recent years to reduce tensions between cities and townships in <br />2019 Legislative Policies <br />13 <br />