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H.F. No. 52, 2nd Engrossment - 87th Legislative Session (2011-2012) [H0052-2]
<br />1.1 A bill for an act
<br />1.2 relating to local government; providing for variances from city, county, and town
<br />1.3 zoning controls and ordinances; amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections
<br />1.4 394.27, subdivision 7; 462.357, subdivision 6.
<br />1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
<br />1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 394.27, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
<br />1.7 Subd. 7. Variances; tra1 dshrp practical difficulties. The board of adjustment shall
<br />1.8 have the exclusive power to order the issuance of variances from the tcrms requirements
<br />1.9 of any official control including restrictions placed on nonconformities. Variances shall
<br />i.io only be permitted when they are in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the
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<br />1.18 Variances may be granted when the applicant for the variance establishes that there
<br />1.19 are practical difficulties in complying with the official control. "Practical difficulties,"
<br />1.20 as used in connection with the granting of a variance, means that the property owner
<br />1.21 proposes to use the property in a reasonable manner not permitted by an official control;
<br />1.22 the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by
<br />1.23 the landowner; and the variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the
<br />1.24 locality. Economic considerations alone shall do not constitute c.11u.1311;N if a .cu c.1�1Jc
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