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RESOLUTION 2000-487
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATION IN THE LOCAL
HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM UNDER THE METROPOLITAN
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2001
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes 473.25 to 473.254)
establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which is intended to address housing and other
development issues facing the metropolitan area defined by Minnesota Statutes 473.121; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base Revitalization
Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account, the Local Housing Incentives 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 finding
from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development unless the municipality is
participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program under Minnesota Statutes 473.254;
and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan Council to
negotiate with each municipality to 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, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions the
municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through preparation of the Housing
Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public hearing, negotiated
affordable and life -cycle housing goals for each participating municipality; and
WHEREAS, for calendar year 2001, a metropolitan area municipality that participated in the Local
Housing Incentives Account Program during calendar year 2000, can continue to participate under
Minnesota Statutes Section 473.254 if. (a) the municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing
Incentives Account Program by November 15, 2000; and (b) the Metropolitan Council and the
municipality have successfully negotiated and adopted affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the
municipality;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA, that the City of Plymouth hereby elects to continue to participate in
the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act during
calendar year 2001.
Adopted by the Plymouth City Council on October 10, 2000
Resolution No. 2000-487
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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 November 4, 1998, 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 October, 2000.
Sandra R. Paulson, City Clerk