Lilly v. City of Minneapolis

The majority’s decision erodes the constitutionally recognized principle of home rule: local governance of areas of local concern. Minn. Const, art. XII, § 4 provides that a local government unit may adopt a home rule charter when authorized by law. A home rule charter

may provide for the establishment and administration of all departments of a city government, and for the regulation of all local municipal functions, as fully as the legislature might have done before home rule charters for cities were authorized.

Minn.Stat. § 410.07 (1992).

The supreme court has recognized that Minnesota’s…