HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2014-70CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
RESOLUTION NO. 2014 -70
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES TRANSIT
ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR
GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Columbia Heights ( "City ") is a participant in the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act ( "LCA ") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2014 as
determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for LCA Livable
Communities Demonstration Account and Tax Base Revitalization Account Transit
Oriented Development (collectively, "TOD ") funds; and
WHEREAS the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets TOD
purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the
Metropolitan Liable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's
adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to adequately
manage an LCA -TOD grant; and
WHEREAS the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and
regulations as stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges TOD grants are intended to fund projects or project
components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for TOD development or
redevelopment elsewhere in the Region, and therefore represents that the proposed project or
key components of the proposed project can be replicated in other metropolitan -area
communities; and
WHEREAS only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities TOD initiative during each funding cycle and the
Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds
only to eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities
for the proposed TOD Project to occur at this particular site and at this particular
time.
2. Finds that the TOD Project component(s) for which Livable Communities TOD
funding is sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonably foreseeable future; and
(b) will occur within the term of the grant award (two years for Pre - Development
grants, and three years for Development grants, one year for Cleanup Site
Investigation grants and three years for Cleanup grants) only if Livable
Communities TOD funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Authorizes its Community Development Department to submit on behalf of the
City an application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities TOD grant
funds for the TOD Project component(s) identified in the application, and to
execute such agreements as may be necessary to implement the TOD Project on
behalf of the City.
Approved by the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights
this 13"' Day of October, 2014.
Offered By: Councilmember Schmitt
Seconded By: Mayor Peterson
Roll Call: Ayes: Mayor Peterson, Councilmember Schmitt
Nay: Councilmember Nawrocki
Abstention: Councilmember Diehm
ATTEST:
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