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RESOLUTION 2001-110
APPROVING COMMENTS ON THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL PROPOSED
GUIDELINES FOR PRIORITY FUNDING FOR HOUSING PERFORMANCE
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council has developed draft criteria to be used to
implement the policy in their Regional Blueprint, which states that the Council will "give
priority for regional infrastructure investments or expenditures of public dollars to
communities that have implemented plans to provide their share of the region's low -and
moderate -income and life -cycle housing opportunities"; and
WHEREAS, the criteria would be used to allocate any fiends over which the Metropolitan
Council has authority; and
WHEREAS, the Plymouth City Council has reviewed the draft criteria dated February 5,
2001 at its meeting of March 20, 2001;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA, that it should and hereby does approve the
following summary comments for transmittal to the Metropolitan Council for its March
21, 2001 public hearing on the draft Guidelines for Priority Funding for Housing
Performance:
A. The guidelines should be revised (particularly criteria 41-4 and 49) to make them
predictable and allow a city's score to be calculated without comparison to other
cities.
B. Criteria 47 should be deleted or revised substantially to provide specific guidance as to
the development standards that are excessive, and award points to those communities
that have eliminated such barriers to housing affordability. All cities should be judged
by the same standard and there should be no incentive to artificially inflate standards
only to reduce them in return for points in the housing criteria.
C. Several of the criteria should be clarified or modified as follows:
1. The difficulty of collecting accurate data to score criteria 44 and 49 should be
considered. If a reliable, accurate method of collecting data cannot be found,
without overburdening the cities that must supply the data, the criteria should be
changed accordingly.
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2. Criteria 44 should be modified to indicate that a net gain in affordable units
through expansion of the Section 8 program within a community would be
recognized.
3. Criteria 45 should be modified to include correctional facilities as a type of "special
needs housing."
4. Criteria 46 should be clarified that policies should be those adopted as part of the
local comprehensive plan, and to indicate the the number of past years for which
initiatives would be considered.
5. Criteria 411 should be clarified to indicate what actions would constitute local
"approval."
ADOPTED by the City Council this 20th day of March, 2001.
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 March 20, 2001 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