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Metropolitan Council Chair Charlie Zelle delivered the 2025 State of the Region speech at Allianz Field on Jan. 30. Following are excerpts from the speech.

Metropolitan Council transit ridership grew 6% in 2024, the third consecutive year of growth following a pandemic-driven drop.

The Metropolitan Council in January awarded $2.5 million in Livable Communities grants to help four communities build and rehabilitate apartments affordable to lower-income households.
 

The Metropolitan Council has awarded five Livable Communities grants totaling $2.26 million to help three cities investigate and clean up polluted sites for redevelopment.

The Met Council is supporting a collective effort to steward land at the 27-acre Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary,

The Met Council is poised in February to adopt forecasts for local population, household, and job growth for the seven-county Twin Cities region.

Met Council staff hosted a summit to share ideas on how to implement new state planning requirements for climate mitigation and adaptation.
 

What will our region look like in 2050? Looking at past development can inform our future.

Efforts to provide a consistently safe, clean, and welcoming experience on Metro Transit service will expand through investment in public safety initiatives in 2025.
 

The Met Council has awarded $3 million in Livable Communities grants to cities to help create 46 new affordable homeownership opportunities in eight cities in the Twin Cities metro region.
 

The Metropolitan Council is planning to build a new water resource recovery facility to treat wastewater in the northwest metro area to replace the existing Rogers Plant.

The Metropolitan Council adopted a public comment draft of its 2025 budget in October and will accept public comments on the budget through Dec. 11.

The Met Council has awarded $5.5 million in Livable Communities grants to support mixed-use development near high-frequency transit routes.