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RESOLUTION E~ECTING TO CONTINUE pARTICIPATING IN TH~LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT
PROGRAM UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COI~.~NITIES ACT.
~I~X~NDAR ~ 1997
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable communities Act (Minnesota Statues
Section 473.25 to 473.254) establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which
is intended to address housing and other development issues facing the metropolitan
area defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
WHEIt~AS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base
Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the Local
Housing Incentive Account, is intended to provide certain funding and other assistance
to metropolitan area municipalities; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality is not eligible to receive grants
or loans under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund or eligible to receive certain
polluted sites cleanup funding from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
Development unless the municipality is participating in the Local Housing Incentives
Account Program under the Minnesota Statutes section 473.254; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan
Council to negotiate with each municipality to establish affordable and life-cycle
housing goals for the municipality that are consistent with and promote the policies
of the Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide;
and
WHEREAS, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the
actions the municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through
preparation of the Housing Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public
hearing, negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for each participating
municipality; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in
the Local Housing Incentives Account Program must do so by November 15 of each year,
and
WHEREAS, for calendar year 1997, a metropolitan area municipality that did
not participate in the Local Housing Incentive Account Program during the calendar year
1996, can participate under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 only if: (a) the
municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by
November 15, 1996; and (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality have
successfully negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for the municipality;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Columbia Heights hereby
elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act during the calendar year 1997.
Passed this ]4th day of October, 1996.
OFFERED BY: Jones SECONDED BY: Jolly
ROLL C,UJ~L: AYES: Jones, Jolly, Ruettimann, Peterson, Sturdevant
None
NAYS:
ATTEST BY:
ayor ~6s~ph Studevant
~D-Anne st~u~ent, ~Council
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Secretary