HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2010-219CITY OF PLYMOUTH
RESOLUTION No. 2010-219
A RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES
ACCOUNT PROGRAM UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT CALENDAR
YEARS 2011 THROUGH 2020
WIffiREAS, 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
WIffiREAS, 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 fiinding
and other assistance to metropolitan -area municipalities; and
WIffiREAS, 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
WIffiREAS, 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
WI-1EREAS, previously negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for
municipalities participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program expire in 2010;
and
WIffiREAS, 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 successfidly negotiate new affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the
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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; and
WHEREAS, a city must develop a Housing Action Plan outlining the steps the city will
take to help meet its Livable Communities Act goals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND 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 2011 through 2020.
2. Agrees to the following affordable and life -cycle housing goals for calendar years 2011
through 2020:
Affordable Housing Goals Range
Life -Cycle Housing Goals Range
679-1,045
1 1,045-1,958
3. Will concurrently transmit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it
plans to take to meet its established housing goals.
ADOPTED by the Plymouth City Council on August 24, 2010.
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 24, 2010 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