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C ITY OF P LYMOUTH
R ESOLUTION N O. 2019-223
R ESOLUTION I DENTIFYING THE N EED FOR L IVABLE C OMMUNITIES D EMONSTRATION
A CCOUNT F UNDING AND A PPROVING THE S UBMISSION OF THE A PPLICATION FOR G RANT
F UNDS FOR THE F OUR S EASONS M ALL R EDEVELOPMENT P ROJECT
WHEREAS, the City of Plymouth is a participant in the Livable Communities Act’s Local Housing
Incentives Account Program for 2019 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to
apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets the Demonstration
Account’s purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the Metropolitan
Livable 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 ensure adequate
project administration; 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 agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant application
submitted on August 8, 2019; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants are intended
to fund projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for development
or redevelopment projects 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 Demonstration Account 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 Demonstration Account grant funding.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH,
MINNESOTA 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 project to occur at this site and this particular time.
2. Finds that the project components for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funding is sought.
3. Will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably
foreseeable future.
4. Will occur within three years after a grant award only if Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
5. Represents the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding for
the project components for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding is
sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for
project component completion within three years and states that this representation is based
on the following reasons and supporting facts:
Project Name: Four Seasons Mall Redevelopment
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Manager is authorized to submit on behalf of the City an
application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant funds for the
project components identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as may be necessary to
implement the project on behalf of the City.
APPROVED by the City Council on this 23rd day of July, 2019.
STATE OF MINNESOTA)
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS.
The undersigned, being the duly qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of Plymouth, Minnesota, certifies
that I compared the foregoing resolution adopted at a meeting of the Plymouth City Council on July 23, 2019
with the original thereof on file in my office, and the same is a correct transcription thereof.
WITNESS my hand officially as such City Clerk and the Corporate seal of the City this ___________day of
__________________, __________.
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City Clerk