HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 97-61C~TY OF COLUMBI~ HEIGHTS RESOLUTION 97 - ~
RE~OLUT~ON ELECTIN~ TO CONTINUE PARTICIP~TIN~ ~N THE ~OC~.~HOUS~NG
~NCENTIVES &CCOUNTPRO~I~UNDER THE HETROPOLIT~NLIV~LE CO~MUNI-
T~E~ ~CT.
CAL~TDAR Y~LR 1998
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes 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
WHEREAS, 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, a 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 1998, a metropolitan area municipality that
participated in the Local Housing Incentive Account Program during the calendar year
1997, can continue to participate under Minnesota Statutes Section 473.254 if= (a) the
municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by
November 15, 1997; 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 1998.
Passed this lOth day of November
, 1997.
Offered by: Jones
Seconded by: Sturdevant
All ayes
Roll Call:
2Anne Student, C~)un~ Secretary
//a~or ~osep~ Sturdevant