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C ITY OF P LYMOUTH
R ESOLUTION N O. 2020-224
R ESOLUTION ELECTING TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEARS 2021 THROUGH 2030
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes sections 473.25 to
473.255) 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, the Local Housing Incentive Account and the
Inclusionary Housing 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 Employment and Economic Development unless the municipality is
participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program under Minnesota Statutes section
473.254; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires that each municipality establish
affordable and life-cycle housing goals for that municipality that are consistent with and promote the
policies of the Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan-area municipality can participate in the Local Housing Incentives
Account Program under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 if: (a) the municipality elects to participate
in the Local Housing Incentives Program; (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality successfully
negotiate new affordable and life-cycle housing goals for the municipality; (c) the Metropolitan Council
adopts by resolution the new negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for the municipality; and
(d) the municipality establishes it has spent or will spend or distribute to the Local Housing Incentives
Account the required Affordable and Life-Cycle Housing Opportunities Amount (ALHOA) for each year
the municipality participates in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH,
MINNESOTA, THAT THE CITY:
1. Elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act for calendar years 2021 through 2030.
2. Agrees to the following affordable and life-cycle housing goals for calendar years 2021 through
2030:
Affordable Housing Goals Range Life-Cycle Housing Goal
373-679 926
3. Will prepare and submit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it plans to
take to meet its established housing goals.
APPROVED by the City Council on this 25th day of August, 2020.
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
August 25, 2020 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