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PRC Commission Memorandum
To: PRC Commissioners
From: Chris Jenkins, Parks & Recreation Director
Date: January 5, 2018
Item: Public Land Dedication Ordinance 154.07
Commission Action Requested:
Commission is asked to review the Public Land Dedication Ordinance. This review is intended to be informational only, no formal action is sought.
Background Information:
This commission is charged with reviewing, analyzing and making recommendations to City Council pertaining to public land dedications stemming from platting, replatting, and other subdivisions
of land. The City’s Public Land Dedication Ordinance 154.07 provides the requirements for land dedication as authorized by MN State Statute 462.358, and this commission should be well
versed with all sections of this ordinance.
The purpose for public land dedication is summarized well in Subdivision 1a. Authority, of MN Statute 462.358. The following is an excerpt from that subdivision:
“To protect and promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, to provide for the orderly, economic, and safe development of land, to preserve agricultural lands, to promote
the availability of housing affordable to persons and families of all income levels, and to facilitate adequate provision for transportation, water, sewage, storm drainage, schools,
parks, playgrounds, and other public services and facilities, a municipality may by ordinance adopt subdivision regulations establishing standards, requirements, and procedures for the
review and approval or disapproval of subdivisions.”
It is appropriate for this body to make time to review this ordinance together, clarify understandings and ultimately provide a strong base for those occasions when land dedication decisions
come before the commission.
Financial Impact:
None
Council Committee Discussion:
None
Attachments:
City of Hastings Ordinance 154.07: Public Land Dedication