Lauderdale, Casey2018-06-282018-06-282018https://hdl.handle.net/11299/198064The Southwest Regional Development Commission (SRDC) held a partnership with the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) to examine the ordinances of nine counties in Southwestern Minneapolis (Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac qui Pqrle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, and Swift) to examine the similarities and differences in how each county regulated five subjects - feedlots, shoreland, renewable energy, telecommunications, and agricultural preservation. To conduct this comparison, the five subjects under each county's ordinance were reviewed, key definitions and regulations were selected, and each were recorded into a spreadsheet to comprehensively compare the requirements across each jurisdiction. The results of this comparison revealed that a range of divergence exists between the counties depending on the topic.enReport