H.F. No. 2323 Summary

• Defines when official controls and fiscal devices do not conflict with comprehensive plans by establishing a standard that permits all uses allowed in the plan at specified densities and prohibits all expressly prohibited uses.

• Applies the conflict definition uniformly across statutes governing comprehensive planning, zoning ordinances, and subdivision regulations in Minnesota.

• Requires comprehensive plans to provide guidelines for timing and sequence of official control adoption to ensure planned, orderly, and staged development.

• Establishes that fiscal devices and official controls adopted for planned development of urbanization or redevelopment areas are not considered conflicting with comprehensive plans.

• Applies sections 4-6 of the bill exclusively to the seven-county metropolitan area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties).