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General Government part of the application process. Licensing agencies should be required to notify the city of properties receiving licensure to be operated as residential programs. Metro Cities supports statutory modifications to require licensed agencies and licensed providers that operate residential programs to notify the city of properties being operated as residential programs. Metro Cities also supports the establishment of appropriate non-concentration standards for residential programs, to prevent clustering, and supports enforcement of these rules by the appropriate county agencies. 2-1 Annexation Attempts have been made in recent years to reduce tensions between cities and townships around annexations. A Municipal Boundary Adjustment Task Force, whose work was published in 2009, worked to develop recommendations regarding best practices annexation training for city and township officials to better communicate and jointly plan potential annexations. While the task force was able to define the differences between cities and townships on the issue of annexation, no significant advancements were made in creating best practices. Metro Cities supports continued legislative efforts to develop recommendations regarding best practices annexation training for city and township officials to better communicate and jointly plan potential annexations. Further, Metro Cities supports substantive changes to the state's annexation laws that will lead to better land use planning, energy conservation, greater environmental protection, fairer tax bases, clarification of fee reimbursement and fewer conflicts between townships and cities. Metro Cities also supports technical annexation changes that have been agreed to by cities and townships. 2-J Housing Ordinance Enforcement In 2008, the Minnesota State Supreme Court ruled in Morris v. Sax that certain provisions of the city of Morris' rental housing code were invalid because there were subjects dealt with under the state building code and the city was attempting to regulate these areas "differently from the state building code." Minnesota Statutes section 1613.6s subdivision 1 states: "The state building code applies statewide and supersedes the building code of any municipality. A municipality must not by ordinance or through development agreement require building code provisions regulating components or systems of any residential structure that are different from any provision of the state building code." Metro Cities supports the ability of cities to enforce all housing codes passed by a local municipality to maintain its housing stock. 2017 Legislative Policies 14