News & Events

In December 2023, the Metropolitan Council hired its first full-time tribal liaison and Native relations coordinator, Allison Waukau, Menominee/Navajo.

The Metropolitan Council has approved a 5.6% increase in the overall regional municipal wastewater charge for 2025.

Regional parks and trails in the seven-county metro region continue to be hugely popular, seeing 69.4 million visits in 2023.

The population of the seven-county Twin Cities region is growing more slowly in the 2020s than it did in the previous decade, but population continues to increase.

Hennepin County and the four cities on the route of the proposed METRO Blue Line Extension are being asked to review the preliminary design plans of the light rail transit project.   

The Metropolitan Council has awarded four Livable Communities grants totaling nearly $1.5 million for assessing and cleaning up contaminated land for redevelopment.

$4 million will help cities remove barriers to creating affordable housing choices 

The Met Council is utilizing art to help the community engage in policymaking for the future.

In June, the Metropolitan Council awarded 10 grants totaling $1.1 million to support cities as they prepare for development or create local policies that influence physical development.

The Met Council has awarded a total of $1.1 million in grants to support changes that reduce the amount of water being pumped from underground aquifers and surface waters as the region grows.

The Met Council is committed to reducing emissions and safeguarding our clean air and water.

The Community Relations team connects community and Met Council members.

Grants expand access and representation in the regional parks and trails system.
 

Imagine 2050, the next regional development guide, will have a specific equity chapter that will detail how the regional equity goal sets the direction for Met Council work.

More than $16 billion has been invested with more than 50,000 housing units developed along transit corridors since 2009.