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Metropolitan Agencies <br />local circumstances as well as the effect of market trends on local development and <br />redevelopment activity. <br />The Metropolitan Council asks cities to plan for achieving minimum average net densities across <br />all areas identified for new growth, development or redevelopment. Because each community is <br />different, how and where density is guided is determined by the local unit of government. <br />Regional density requirements should use minimum average net densities. Metro Cities opposes <br />parcel -specific density requirements as such requirements are contrary to the need for <br />local flexibility in a regional policy. <br />Any regional density policy must use local data and local development patterns and must <br />accommodate local physical and land use constraints such as, but not limited to, wetlands, public <br />open space, trees, water bodies and rights -of -way, and any corresponding federal and state <br />regulations imposed on local governments when computing net densities. <br />The Metropolitan Council must coordinate with local governments in establishing or revising <br />regional density requirements and should ensure that regional density and plat monitoring reports <br />comprehensively reflect local densities and land uses. <br />2019 Legislative Policies <br />50 <br />