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■ Provide tools that allow cities to acquire vacant and boarded properties before <br />deterioration and vandalism result in unsalvageable structures, including increases <br />eminent domain flexibility; and <br />■ Registration of vacant and boarded properties, if this is deemed to be an effective <br />approach to dealing with the problem. <br />III -H Economic Development and Redevelopment <br />The economic viability of the Metro Area is enhanced by a broad array of economic <br />development tools that create infrastructure, recycle previously developed property, <br />provide incentives for business development and support technological advances. It <br />should be the goal of the State to champion development by providing enough sustainable <br />funding to assure competitiveness in a global marketplace. The State of Minnesota should <br />recognize cities as the primary unit of government'responsible for the implementation of <br />economic development, redevelopment policies and land use controls. State assistance to <br />cities for development is required in two broad areas: (1) Economic Development -- direct <br />business assistance; and (2) Redevelopment /Development -r real estate development. They <br />are not mutually exclusive —some projects require a boost on both counts. <br />III -H (1) Economic Development <br />For purposes of this section, economic development is defined as a form of development <br />that contains direct business assistance with the goal of sustainable job creation, job <br />retention or to nurture new or retain existing industry in the state. The measure of return <br />on investment of public business subsidies should include the impact (positive or negative) <br />of "spin -off development" or business development that is ancillary and supportive of the <br />primary business. Metro Cities supports; <br />• Continued competitive funding for the Minnesota Investment Fund; <br />• Continued funding for the Urban Initiative Program and other state programs to <br />support minority business start -ups; <br />Continued support for the Bioscience partnerships between cities, companies and <br />University of Minnesota; <br />■ Development of green opportunities for green job development and related innovation <br />and entrepreneurship; and <br />■ Economic tools that facilitate job growth without relying solely on the growth of <br />property tax base; <br />■ The Regional Competitiveness Project, a collaboration of the Regional Council of Mayors <br />and the Business and Workforce investment Boards (DEED) with the goal of <br />18 Metro Cities <br />