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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHousing & Redevelopment Authority Packet 01-26-1976i CITY,OF PLYMOUTH 3M HARPOR .LANE, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA, 55441 TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800 QATE: January 23, 1976 MEMO TO: Housing and Redevelopment Authority Commissioners FROM: .Planning pepartnmen SUBJECT: Organizational Meeting of Plymouth housing and Redevelopment Authority Attached please find an agenda for the Organizatio al meeting of the Plymmth Housing and Redevelopment Authority. The purpose of the meeting includes election of officers, organizing the Authority according to Minnesota Law, approving bylaws and adopting a seal for the Authority. Also,. two items of new busiutess, Budget and Administration. and.1976 Work Program, are up for discussion. The necessary resolutions are attached as proposed as well as copies of the proposed bylaws and proposed seal. ATTACHMM: 1. Agenda 2. Resolution Organization According to Minnesota.Law 3. Resolution Adopting Bylaws 4. Resolution Adopting Seal H.KA Yhih1 5 i 1p, Ah CITY OF PLYN"i'OUTH 3026 HARBOR LANE. PLYMOUTH. MINNESOTA 55441 TELEPHONE (612) .559.2800 DATE: January 26, 1976 MEMO TO Housing and Redevelopment Authority FROM: Charles E. Dillev d., Planning Direcuago tUBJECT: Housing Data The. Housing Division of the Metropolitan Council has generated two sets of housing data for Ply=uth of substantial importance to the HRA. Both sets. of data were developed in response to immediate metro area needs to develop Housing Assistance Plans in support of Community Development Revenue Sharing applications. Your staff predicts a much broader usage of the data by the Metropolitan, Council in -the future. The first set of data is the current estimate -of Housing Need. Using crude statistics and heavy interpolation formulas c a e y the Metro- politan Council, the housing' -stock condition and current needs statistics found in Attachment A result for Plymouth. The HRA Board will recall that this same date was found less. than believable by our City Council during Its 1975 review of our 1975 CDRS application. The data looks every bit as unbelievable this year! Plymouth is not alone in its objection to need and housing stock condition data.resulting for its community from questionable Metropolitan Council methods of computing. The universal problem, however, .s that few, if any, communities have local data sources to logically counter the sources used by the Council staff (principally 1970 census data and a Metropolitan Council staff survey of housing conditions). Our current need, then, is for: a complete., detailed and up-to-date description of Plymouth's Housing Stock plys a workable method of maintaining our inventory. This is by no means a simple task, but a high percentage of recently constructed homes plus a good local set of assessment records should help the situation immensely. As a parallel, we also need a locaily generated and maintained model of housing need. The first difficult problem here will be to establish a definition of need, is it local, based on employment or metro or how much.of each. For the local componentwe must, in some manner, seek the cooperation of local employers for wage breakdowns. This data, too, must be capable of periodic update without extensive new field work. Staff suggests that if Plymouth is to embark upon an affirmative program to maintain a baianced and community responsive housing stock such a program must be guided by quantified needs and resulting quantified goals-. If we cannot believe the "needs numbers" our goals will be equally meaningless. The local inventories, plans. programs and rionitoring. system necessary to achieve a defensible local housing approach have only been sketched by iocal staff'in a most basic format. Staff advocates request by the t;RA to the City Council for a grant of a substantial portion of the 1976 CDRS Allocation (about $60,000) for HRA use in developing such a housing approach locally.. The second.set of data of importance to the HRA is the recently adopted Metropolitan Council Allocation Plan for Subsidized Housing Units. The plan (Attachment 8 hereto) depicts the Council's Housing Committee's adopted distribution levels for the now hypothetical 12,000 -units of Section 8 Housing available to the Metropolitan Area. Plymouth has been allocated 291 units over the next three years on a ccinplex formula rooted fna.general "share the poverty" approach. (The absolute 1800 parallel to the existing Fiscal Disparaties "Share the Wealth" program.) By the Plan, every community takes care of "its own" plus a percentage area -wide low income needs. The Metropolitan Council policy on this Plan clew states that these allocations do not constitute mandatory minimum pro- duction: level --but, in fact, they do just that.. Assuredly all relations with the Metropolitan Council on any topic will be reviewed against local progress to 291 subsidized units (in our case), as well as the mandated 609 family 40% elderly formula. The recent improvements to Policy 31 wfll certainly be heavily compromised -by the numertcalpolicy of the Allocation Plan. Clearly, then, whatever local housing approaches we adopt we must be addressing our 2.91unit allocation for subsidized (Section 8') flouring. Our profile may not be overly compromised if 1976 sees little progress, but thereafter we should be under way. As with utilities, storm water and parks, the housing element of P1ywuth's development fabric may now require guiding by way of a fine tuned plan and. program. Staff suggests that this should be the HRA's first program concern. Specific HRA actions suggested include: 1. Direct staff to return February 23 with a Project Outline for the preparation of'detailed Housing Inventory, Plan, Program and Monitor System for Plymouth. Included would be recommended approach (staff or consultant) projected costs and required time for completion. 2. Immediately request of the the 1976 CDRS Allocation to Housing Plan. ATTACHMENTS: City Council a grant of $30,000 from cover possible 1976 costa of the 1. Current Estimate of Housing Need 2. Metropolitan Council Allocation Plan for Subsidized Housing AZZ4LIM SUBSIDIZED HOUSING ALLOCATION PLAN SECOND PRIORITY COMf[TNITIES Percent Units m Udea gills * .85 102 Brooklyn'Park 1.16 139 Burnsville * 2..42 290. Landfall .05 6 Lilydale .16 19 Little Canada .54 65 Medicine Lake .06 7 Mendota .05 6 Mendota. Heights .75 90 Mianetonka 1.84 221 Moundsview .40 48 New Bri hton 1 08 130 1 Newport 22 26 North St. Paul 48 58 Plymouth * 2.43 291. St-. Paul Park 23 28 Shoreview 1.14 137 Sprint Lake Park 23 28 Wayzata 42 50 White Bear Lake 60 72 Part of this community is in another priority area, but the community's total share and number of units are shown here.