HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2006-278CITY OF PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2006-278
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Plymouth is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's
Housing Incentives Program for 2006 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is
therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account fiinds; and
WHEREAS the City has identified the Plymouth Crossroads Station as 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 to be submitted on July 17, 2006; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants
are intended to fiind 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 fiinding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each fiinding cycle and the
Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant fiinds
only to eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of Demonstration
Account grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for
the proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the project component(s) for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account fiinding is sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonably foreseeable fiiture; and
(b) will not occur within two years after a grant award unless Livable Communities
Demonstration Account fiinding is made available for this project at this time.
Represents that the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure
funding for the project component for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account fiinding is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources
funding that is necessary for project component completion within two years and
states that this representation is based on the physical characteristics of the site. The
majority of the site is unable to qualify for TIF redevelopment fiinds because a large
portion is unimproved and dominated by wetlands, which does not meet the statutory
requirements for such fiinding.
4. Authorizes its staff to submit on behalf of the City an application for Metropolitan
Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant fiinds for the project
component(s) identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as may
be necessary to implement the project on behalf of the City.
Adopted by the City Council this 11th day of July, 2006.
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 11, 2006 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
City Clerk