Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER 2S7-H. F. No. lilo
A BILL

A BILL
FOR AN ACT to authorize munic-
qualities to carry on city plan
ming, to prepare and take ef-
fective official maps, and to
regulate and approve proposed
plating of land except in cities
now or hereafter containing a
population of $4,000 or more in
habitantS.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section l. Lny municipality in
the state is hereby authorized to
carry on city planning activities
and adopt a plan for the regulation
of the future physical development
Of the municipality and to prepare
and adopt an official map of all
proposed alteration of existing
lands and public spaces, and the
future development of unplatted
properties, and shall have power
to approve subdivisions as herein
after provided and require such ap-
proval prior to the filing of an Of
fetal plat thereof. The term
municipality" as used in this act
shall include any city, village,
township or borough however or
gained.
Section 2. Planning City Develop
ments.-Any municipality may by
formal procedure make study OF
future developments of the munic-
ipailty. including proposed public
buildings, street arrangements and
improvements. public utility Serv-
ices. parks, Fairgrounds and other
similar developments. Such plans
may be incorporated in resolutions
or ordinances, in reports of officers
or agents of the municipality or
may be shown on formal planning
maps or by a use of these and
other methods singly or in combi-
nation.
Section 3. The governing body Of
any municipality aforesaid may
provide for the future laying out
of streets outside of plated terri
tory and extending across unplat-
ted territory within the corporate
limits of such municipality. When
it is thus desired to extend or
reserve any lands for streets or
other public use which are not yet
dedicated to public use by plating
or otherwise, or to provide for the
future widening and improvement
Of an existing street or highway, the
council shall direct the engineer OF
the municipality or other competent
person to prepare map Of such
plated or unplatted district indi-
eating the proposed future extern
sion or widening of existing streets
of the municipality within such ex-
listing plated and developed terri
tory or across such unplatted terri
tory upon such map.
After such map has been prepared
and filed with the governing body
of the municipality, it shall be
adopted and published as the Of
ficial map of that portion Of the
municipality and thereafter when
ever any such existing street or
highway is widened or improved
or any such new street is opened
or lands for other public purposes
are acquired by action of the munic-
ipality, it shall not be required in
such proceedings to pay for any
building or structure whatsoever
constructed upon such mapped
street, or situated outside of any
building line that may have been
established upon the existing street
or within any area thus reserved
for public purposes, placed there
after the adoption and publication
of said map.
No such map shall be adopted
however, or have any effect until
approved by resolution duly adopt
ed by the governing body Of said
municipality after a public hear
ing held at least 10 days after
public notice thereof is given in a
legal newspaper published in that
municipality. The adoption Of said
map shall not give the municipal
ity any right or interest in such
unplatted streets or other reserved
areas except the right to secure
the streets or lands indicated by
the usual methods, but without the
payment of compensation for any
such improvement constructed upon
the bed of the mapped street there
after or outside of the established
building line or within the reserved
areas as herein provided.
Section 4. The governing body OF
any municipality is authorized by
resolution to approve all plats OF
land hereafter proposed within that
municipality or within two miles
of its limit in any direction, pro-
vided that where two or more
municipalities have contiguous ter
ritory or are situated with their
boundaries less than four miles
apart, each shall have control Of
the plating of land equidiStan'
from its boundaries within this
two-mile radius. After the adop-
ton of planning regulations es-
tablished under a city plan adopted
pursuant to the provisions OF this
act, approval may be denied ii
the proposed plat fails to conform
to the said plan or with any reason
able regulation Of the municipality
applicable thereto. No plat shall bt
filed or accepted for filing unless
it is accompanied by a certitlec
copy of the resolution approving
it or accepting it as being in &C.
cord and conformity with any plans
or regulations as herein specified
A copy of this resolution shall be
supplied to the applicant.
When copy Of any plat is fileo
with a municipality for approval
published notice shall be given Of
a public hearing to be held within