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POLICY 27: Equitable development

This policy states:

Find opportunities to promote equitable development and distribution of public investments to benefit communities disproportionately harmed by past and present policies and land use planning practices to eliminate racial disparities and discrimination. (Met Council/Local Government)

What is a policy?
Policies are statements of intent and approach to regional issues or topics, independently and with partners.

Actions

(Met Council) or (Local Government) or (Met Council/Local Government) are tags indicating responsibility for implementing the activity. 

Work towards developing strategies to restore community connections in areas negatively impacted by planning and investment decisions. (Met Council/Local Government) 

Explore the opportunity to establish a reparative action fund to finance mitigation measures for known and acknowledged past harms to the environment, to American Indian communities, to Black communities, and communities of color unjustly harmed by past local or Met Council actions. (Met Council) 

Apply the Anti-Displacement Framework identified in the Equity Goal chapter to ensure Met Council investments and policies center and align with community needs and reduce harm to communities. (Met Council) 

Provide technical assistance to create an analysis methodology utilizing the equity and environmental justice frameworks outlined in the Equity Goal chapter. The purpose is to evaluate how projects benefit or harm different communities and demographics and mitigate inequitable exposure to environmental, social, and economic harms. (Met Council) 

Create/design a set of criteria to measure equitable impacts of development and local investments on Black, American Indian, people of color, and other vulnerable communities. (Met Council) 

What is an action?
Actions are the specific activities to implement policies and achieve the goals and objectives.