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General Government <br />of properties receiving licensure to be operated as residential care facilities. <br />Metro Cities supports statutory modifications to require licensed agencies and <br />licensed providers that operate residential care facilities to notify the city of <br />properties being operated as residential care facilities. Metro Cities also supports <br />the establishment of appropriate non -concentration standards for residential care <br />facilities, to prevent clustering, and supports enforcement of these rules by the <br />appropriate county agencies. <br />2-1 Annexation <br />Attempts have been made in recent years to reduce tensions between cities and townships <br />around annexations. A Municipal Boundary Adjustment Task Force, whose work was <br />published in 2009, worked to develop recommendations regarding best practices <br />annexation training for city and township officials to better communicate and jointly plan <br />potential annexations. While the task force was able to define the differences between <br />cities and townships on the issue of annexation, no significant advancements were made <br />in creating best practices. <br />Metro Cities supports continued legislative efforts to develop recommendations <br />regarding best practices annexation training for city and township officials to better <br />communicate and jointly plan potential annexations. Further, Metro Cities supports <br />substantive changes to the state's annexation laws that will lead to better land use <br />planning, energy conservation, greater environmental protection, fairer tax bases, <br />and fewer conflicts between townships and cities. Metro Cities also supports <br />technical annexation changes that have been agreed to by cities and townships. <br />2-J Housing Ordinance Enforcement <br />In 2008, the Minnesota State Supreme Court ruled in Morris v. Sax that certain <br />provisions of the city of Morris' rental housing code were invalid because there were <br />subjects dealt with under the state building code and the city was attempting to regulate <br />these areas "differently from the state building code." <br />Minnesota Statutes section 1613.6s subdivision 1 states: "The state building code applies <br />statewide and supersedes the building code of any municipality. A municipality must not <br />by ordinance or through development agreement require building code provisions <br />regulating components or systems of any residential structure that are different from any <br />provision of the state building code." <br />Metro Cities supports the ability of cities to enforce all housing codes passed by a <br />local municipality to maintain its housing stock. <br />14 2016 Legislative Policies <br />