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Committee adds and adopts amendment asking state to allow amortization of nonconforming industrial uses in environmental justice areas
Summary
The Intergovernmental Relations Committee voted to (1) add an amendment to the agenda and (2) approve language asking the Legislature to give the city authority to phase out nonconforming heavy industrial uses located in environmental justice areas.
The Minneapolis Intergovernmental Relations Committee on March 25 added and approved an amendment to the city’s 2025 legislative agenda asking the Minnesota Legislature to authorize the city to phase out nonconforming heavy industrial uses in environmental justice areas.
Council President Payne moved the amendment and asked the committee to state its support for legislative authority to amortize nonconforming industrial uses in defined environmental-justice areas; Chair Oreen Choudhury seconded the motion and the committee approved it by voice vote.
Nut graf: The amendment signals the city’s request that the Legislature give…
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