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by: By Minnesota Environmental Quality Board
Following a directive from the Minnesota Legislature, the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (then part of Minnesota Planning, and now part of the Minnesota Department of Administration) published a 313-page guide From Policy to Reality: Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development in September 2000. This guide offers legal tools to help local government steer changes in their communities that reflect the aspirations of their comprehensive and other plans. Communities can adapt these model ordinances to their own special circumstances.
These model sustainability ordinances were recently updated. The following updates can be accessed at the website below, each in PDF format:
- Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
- Agriculture and Forest Protection District
- Model Community Conservation Subdivision District
- Downtown Mixed-Use District
- Energy Efficiency Ordinance
- Highway Commercial District
- Landscaping and Maintenance of Vegetation
- Local Food Networks
- Natural Resources Performance Standards
- Design Standards for Pedestrian-Oriented Districts and Corridors
- Planned Unit Development Ordinance
- Solar Energy Standards
- Stormwater and Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance
- Travel Demand Management Performance Standard
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Village Mixed Use District
- Model Wind Energy
Resource(s): http://www.crplanning.com/susdo.htm
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