HomeMy WebLinkAboutHousing & Redevelopment Authority Packet 09-21-1995PLYMOUTH HRA
STAFF REPORTS
SEPTEMBER, 1995
PLYWOMN HOUSING AND Mmxviz0P2hWrAi7TjfORITY
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of August 17, 1995 Minutes
3. Plymouth Towne Square Management Report
4. Request from Hmoepin County to Participate in Funding for Fair Housing Activities
S. Application Process for Section 8 Certificate waiting List
6. Reallocation of Funds for Rehab Loan/ Grant PmW m
7. 1996 Cmmw ty Development Block Grant Program
S. Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and Elm Creek Cluster Planning Project
9. Other Business
10. Adjournment
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MEMORANDUM
ATO: ANNE HURLBURT
ED GOLDSMITH
FR: Donna Flaatn
Date: AS. 20,1995
RE: PTS Monthly Report for July 1995
Monthly Fbu=W:
JULY Financial Statements (see attached).
HSK/S"es: reflects overpayquat of staff and will be adjusted.
FOCaretaher Allowances: tiaams with deposit, will adjust accordingly w August
GAftnted Cormnunkabons: reflects cost to print July newsletter.
occup ney/Maeketing;
Monthly Occupancy Report for July (see attached).
98 units leased, 1 to be k:asod.
JULY Housing ?deport: includes. July Resident Newsletter
Plant Operations:
no contractor has been working on the purAliat..
Several water leaks in the building. AN have been addressed.
The outside pave of a rear entrance window was farad shattered and replacement ordered.
Resident Services:
Music in the Park was a hit with the residents.
Residents were able to meet informally with new Resident Council members..
Residents participated in a Food Test to cam money for the Resident Fund..
An outside individual has been brought in to teach craft classes.
ffYou have any 9uMioa. PIOM contact me at 82741402.
CC: Nellie Johnson, Sarah Miller
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TOTAL PIOMIll, KM. a =1P11E
0111 ANNETa:
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11:0 ACOIa1ATO AOOITRATION
TOTAL 0111111,
TOTAL AIMM
PLIMM TOUR MINT
OAL M I@T
Jul 31 "
OIw11O
1191eTs
1011EI1T GLARE SeT
II11T1 MWOM96 6NTN1i
S0o.00 510.0E 0.0
20,10M 1,435.0 631,269.47)
10S.M.O3 1,115.43 0,"O.Ao
650.0) 100.03) 520.96
20.65 1,20.AS 0.00
AWAI 6=,OM) lO . ii0
10.47 3SI A6 221.19)
131,426.72 74,"6.07 60,44O.AS
459,267.a 459,267.00 0.00
5,5".665.00 S,S",665.0 0.00
46,673.00 46,673.00 0.0
1116,496.51 643,10." 7,596.32
20.65 1,20.AS 0.00
035.13 0.0 1,0:5.15
c1114,2>s.397 633.11.30) 6im,314.007
b.all,lw.rt 6,210,1".1 c111,91.ss7
475,121.62 475,12:.62 6.0
241,316.94 211,316 94 0.0
110961.0 0.0 11,961."
20"0.15 2,"0." o./1
155,:66.116 1530071.51 1,00.06
64,430.07 2,756.00) 1,60.0)
02,01.22 Ofi,40.22 31,676.0
7,115,663.66 7,1,S79.S4 6'0,91.0)
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LIAOILITIO A01 M WAM
OMIEBT LI MILITIBE
ACCOSTS MTAKI . TS01I 1,291.85 7,547:94 C6,2TLmCOTRIMMBMTMOM246,237.19 2Ai,2AAP 0.00
ACC111101 1AIA0 U Alp Lkl7 619.37 1,619.00 OO.S7ACONNINDIST0+,725.00 N,27SA0 OAOACMEMEALEBTAMTAW11,700!.85 3,001.35 11,0111.411ALYs11® BE01i0S
MIO ITT 090MITS
R,173A7
21,985.85
11,561.25
26,117.311
1,332.64
4,7"A
TOTAL 85.21857 LIMILITIIS 385,9K.K f1S,i1t.11B 0,5116.06
LOIS TION owl
1101= MAKE S,f00,000.00 5,700,001.0 0.00
TOTAL UM T1111 AM 5,7110,000.00 S 700 000.00 0.00
8001 MLAOCIe
01/21101101 CAPITAL 001,000.00 1,410,000.00 OAORUUMOOEMICIT
1ST IBCOE CLAIM)
SO 2.74
411,52+.27
Bo,zlo.7+4
0.00
0.00
411,321.911)
TOTAL 0101) BALAICE 1,041,7!2.111 1,001,210.71 C411,sn.9¢1
TOTAL LIABILITIES 1 RAW MAOI 7,115,013.6 T1153,579.56 C39,90"J.851
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37.15
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110.0
110110 OM163T MINE! OF SUP. AcmL VOW MINOR WIN. OOOHOB 199s
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aE9B00Ee
1.600.00
PPL18 - 0901AL 91.8 90.00 1.8 1.0 101.16 650.00 11x.16
APal11001 ow 47,61.00 47,OSt.00 0.00 0.00 sO1,ss1A0 701,87.0 0.00 0.0 516,612.00
0156 fa19t01ML YMa107 0.25P.00 24,159.00 0.00 0.00 K1.01s.0 IGIAG.0 0.00 0.00 247.1oem
IMLAOCI-CA01TA230 1,28.0- 1.276.00- 0.00 0.00 0.95.00- 0,95.00- 0.00 1.00 1S,s00Ao-
IMCNV /ACID! - APA01110 1,060.76- 4.606.00- 2,6K.14 61.52 S.i01.8- 75.340.00- 41.060.62 8.56 1r,415.0-
NUMM FACTOR - SMIOT 500.04- 2.026.00- I.S11.96 14.92 6,501.26- 8.454.00- 19,072.74 04.0 16,467.00-
CAa1162 MAL 1.675.0 1.553.00 MAO 1.6 11,500.47 9,067.00 2.61AS 27.01 17.500.00
OFNIIT SW am 100.00 100.0 0.00 0.00 700.0 710.00 0.0 0.00 1,200.0
aim 0001 SWAL0 175.00 105.00 70.00 56.61 1,470.0 35.0 075.00 147.06 1.18.00
LNAWF 777.50 446.0 81.60. 74.8 5,80.75 20600.00 2.80.75 105.10. S.060A0
IIIf11LIA06MR 15.00 0.0 Isis 0.00 115.0 Sam 110.00- 4L10 38A0
1191501m 10000E 201.99 S6.0 152.90 173.20 MAO SaAO 310.60 95.31 632.0
IOIAL aE9001[0 62.011.9 51.964.00 49051.9 0.37 4K.1a.1i 336.957.0 Trap.% 22.91 466,460.0
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mlcu AaMM 0.00 20.00 5.00- 100.0 17ris 14060 37.15 16.61 110.0
aE lm /15014.!15 09.8 95.00 a.4S- ffi.I9 S" mm 301.61- St." 1.600.00
PPL18 - 0901AL 91.8 90.00 1.8 1.0 101.16 650.00 11x.16 21.12 IASUO
10IAL aE0CW SRO 160.10 205.00 K.12- 21.52 1.546.00 I.18.00 01.24- sit 3,410.0
ORE23EP110r
MARKS 002.45 615.00 W S 31.6 6.134AZ 4.610.0 1.26AZ 8.07 16045.0
0E0EFI10 ISOM 160.00 ii.6y 26.58 1.729.20 1,100.0 143.15 21.0 11910.00
N .0YC1-01104 0.150 M.N. 300AO- 1150.150 1,932./1 1,600.0 661.x1- aim 36150.150
FAVAIRO AS 0I0IEIMRCI OM a.o ASM- 100.00 S6.0 18.00 110.06- 61.1 300.0
nMIN - SCOW 114.36 200.00 5At- 42.2 t,mm 1,400.x0 091.W 0.71 20400.x0
107AL aMIfE11E0P100 1,161.06 1,300.00 ut.9s- 10.23 11,7x4.1. 9,191.00 1,173.01 10.03 15,48.0
OMIT M.0 TIO 710
MIO 411614!7 96016116 of M. ACIIML OIAfiET
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MAOI SURIa1 MD MIMEM i
SALARIES 1,025.03 750.00 27563
SWIll A0 ULM A0
APT. 043AOIUVATIa 100.00- IS0.00 350.00-
4OETA@ AILaNO011 10.42 0.00 MA2
PUSfo. act -0108 I,o6O.OT 1,46.01 419.91-
S@MIOS 0 MIOT. 3".16 300.00 79.16
SVPLIES -68511516 321.51 350.00 20.49-
11M women 492.94 00.00 7.06-
OISO114AEOla Oho 0.00 50.00-
TUAL MAR OPINAT1OOS 3,420401 3,01560 I04.IP-
UTILITINs
4130060
1.43 3,003.30
UTILITIES -U= 1,10060 1,400.00 400.00
OIIL11134 A IDIL 119.62 4,"O/A0 4,320.30-
WILITIES-f01TEO 1,000.14 1,100.00 9406-
TOTAL WILITEO 3,§W.76 7,700.00 4,43DA4-
PSOPESTT AND NUMB
11,064.91 9,000.00 1,260.94
ml I ATM 260.00 260.00 OAU
OEM'2 1100 17,192400 11,"2.00 0.00
IOI9EST Ei79iE 27,075400 27,015.00 0.00
I0SIStA111-OS@EOTT 1,700.71 615.00 I,o33."
SEAL emu TAiE1 4,431.50 OAO 1,400.50
00111431 0400 0400 0400
TOTAL P6O9EOTT 0 SEL. 470624.21 450MAI 20442.21
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9MIASI4 OF W. Iiia
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36.70 6,540.17 SIMAO 1,00;.11 10.16 9,660.00
35.30 11430.31 1,329.00 109.31 am 2,3"60
166.61 507.31 I,OMLN 562.63- S1A3 UWA0
4064 431.46 350.00 1.044 CAI 600.00
20.20 T MAS 12,36460 5,016.15- 41.30 21,750.00
6.IP I'MA1 2,100Ao R1.IP- 35.SP 3,6"60
0.14 3,014.10 2,450.00 1,443.10 50.91 4130060
1.43 3,003.30 3,S00AO MJP 10.96 6,000AO
101.00 300.50 350.00 44.50 566 61161
10.33 25,56462 206969.00 3,IE4.10- I1AP 50,5!960
34.ST 11,064.91 9,000.00 1,260.94 8.,92 16,000.00
96.01 15,79161 31,500.00 5,700."- 4961 56,00060
79.44 7,403.49 12,600.00 5,196.51- 41.21 21ANAD
43.43 36,261.23 53,900.00 430.77 76." 92,400.00
0.01 1,43060 1.44760 0.410 060 2,060400
0.00 120,346A/ 120,364.00 060 0.00 206,306.00
OAo P,525A0 IOP1525.00 GAO OAO 314,900A0
153.14 4175P61 4,72360 4,05461 01.3P 4,206A0
0.00 11,405.02 1,420.00 909".02 614.11 1,43160
0.00 060 0.00 0.00 060 GAO
S.a 331,116.75 317,702.01 16,012.71. 4AI 543,717.00
COMMIT WE. I 210 TIO VNIA all= IM-
IRWII SuOOMT MIANCE 0P 1. ACPAL 011601 MIMICS! OF E1. 0oB10 1995
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0E1RAL An AONI ISTAAIIVMI
MAIM-10111 2,101.00 2,000.00 106.00 5.0 13,106.00 15.60.0 202,.00- OAT 210331.00
SALARIES-A000 WAS 720.0 4966 6.06 5,021.01 3,460.00 410.W- Lot V,fA m
MMllifin 601.60 94.00 22.40- 3.32 4,30.35 S,05.Oo 511.66- 10.72 06032.00
AOMIsIO6-PERM. am 50.0 50.00- 100.00 MM 350AO 1A6AO- 47.46 60060
MIT a MOD win 0.0 0.00 0.0.0 0.00 LOO S.44Ao s.44A0- 700.00 6.44.00
am ARD TOM 10.01 0.0 19.16- 30.32 297.0 350.00 52.72- 15.06 600.00
RACK mna a1Paa 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.00 0.00 19.00 am a96
01120 Ewa 32.0 25.00 TAS 31.00 200.5 175.00 23.5 14.60 300.00
0115 a 01111CRIPT. 0.00 0.00 0.0 0.00 297.00 403.00 100.00- tam 455.00
To PRIMOATIO PEES 0.00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
IRIEREST-=. CEP. VEST 3.0 95.57 591.10 21.0 510.10 es " 36.00
LE 0.0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
L10EI0ES A0 PE001TS 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.0 50.00 0.00 0.00 923.96
I010A6B10T PEES 3,20.55 3.000.00 20.55 7.12 21.213.5 21,000.00 20.5 1.02 16,000.0
IRIAR115 6HMRAL 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 OAO 0.00 0.00 0.00
CIEETl= a MINES 0.00 am 0.0 0.0 215.50 600.00 SUM- 66.0 IAOAO
POSTAGE 76AS 00.00 3:5- 4.K 950.0 SNAG 370.0 66.0 1,0060
Palm Oa0RI0ICIT1010 109.59 25.0 06.59 310.36 610.39 175.0 463.39 204.70 300.0
1110 SERVICES 29.70 30.00 0.21- 0.70 211.32 210.0 1.32 0.72 360.00
UN M -IATA RIM 0.00 a96 0.00 OAo am a0 060 oil 0.00
REPAIRS a IWR. 0.0 30.0 30.00- 0111.0 0.0 2060 21060- 160.00 36060
MPECML aim 0.0 OAO CAO- Ian Sam 1060 0.W- GAS 306.0
MOR MS 0.00 70.0 7060- I" 922.8 49660 432.Q aa19 MAI
MINNOW[ 446.30 1SOA0 90.39 MIT 2.9011.16 2.4SOAo 41.16 It At 4.20.0
MSCVJA0610i 6.40 50.00 6.4 12.96 4.000.02 3,2060 mm 21.0 3.45060
TOTAL SE103fAL a 10010. T,70a07 7.160.0 44.07 6.17 ST.00.ST 61,0660 4.075.43- 6.50 114Oa0
TOTAL OPQATIIM EO01ES 63.00.57 66.462.0 2,311.43- 3.5 462.601.06 475.10.0 11.296.114- 2.30 0a.09A0
MI0100 M10:) 38.0- 7.490.0- 7.166.12 0.96 4.'121.92- 137,00.00- 05.5065 64.99 01.01.-
MONTHLY OCCUPANCY REPORT
PLYMOUTH TOWNE SQUARE
AS OF JULY 31, 1995
1995 JAN I FEB I MAR APR I MAYI JUN I JUL I AUG I SEP I OCT I NOV I DEC TOTAL
MARKETING:
Telephone Calls 117 105 294 186 103 79 63 947
Prisentations/Pous 22 17 32 18 12 8 614 115
APPLICATIONS:
Mailed out 0 0 1 247 58 28 1 16 15 1 364
Received 0 0 126 25 ll 8 7 177
Waiting List Total •341 341 NA NA 335 335 335 335
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WALKER MANAGEMENT, INC.
MONTHLY HOUSING REPORT
This report is to be completed by the Housing Manager end submbW to Nellie Johnson Vice
President of Waller ilOM Services at 3737 Bryant Avenue South„ Mi mespok Minnesota
55405k by the 10th ofthe month following the report month.
COMMUNITY NAMP iPLYMOUTB TOWNE SQUARE
NUMBBR OF UNITS: 99 Independent Uving Units
0 Assisted Uvimg Unity
REPORT MONTH: JULY 1995
Name ofpereon comphm06 this report: Sarah X Midler. Vim I- ff
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A. Total Number of apartments occupied (including earetalrer units): 93
B. Occupancy Percent: 931%
C. Attach Monthly Marketing Report for detailed information.
D. Move ins Andd 0d for AUGUST: 0
E. Move -outs Anticipated for AUGUST: 0
n• : Not Applicable
A. Attach copy of report momh'e newsletter and activities eahmdar.
B. Attadi copy of report mouth's minutes from Resident Council Meeting. C. Social Services: Not Applicable
D. Reaident Issues:
Music in the park was hold on July 6. Resident thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Resident were able to met the new Resident Council Members at the first Thursday
LOAM Coffee of the month. It was an informal setting. The election ballots had a
good response. Ther were at leant 4 individuals from each floor represented.
Residents chose Z individuals from each floor to represent them.
Josephine Apparel was hero in July. She leiggs in Oda of dothin to purchase.
Residents were impressed with her sde t m. The "home4mnd" residents
especmelly like the service. She will return to the building about three times a year.
The nest one is scheduled for Nov. -Dec.
do—N Residents participate in a Visual Food Test performed by Food Paepectives out of
Plymouth. Each participant received 35, another $4 each went to the Resident
Fund. There were 98 participants.
A number of random requested Craft Classes We EmW a woman in Plymouth
who wig teach an assortment of classes for a reasonable price. The Ent class was
Ukrainian Egg Painting for $6.00 per persok erg material supplied. Class size was
limited to 12. There was such a response that another class was scheduled to
accommodate everyone who wanted to attend.
A. Attach Monthly Inspection Report.
B. Last any unbudgeted maintenance expenses during report month: None
C. Building Issues:
Tho contractor was here in the hater part of July working to complete the
Pte•
During the month of July aro procured water softener bids for hot and cold water.
However the July HRA meeting was canceled and we will present the bids at the
August ung.
Thera was water leaks in two separate apartments after navy fauns. Unit 120 had
water leaking in do bathroom around a sprinkler had. Both the plumbing and
sprinkler company looked at it and could no determine the source of the laic. It
has not reappeared and caused no visual damage. Unit 318 had water seeping
through the bedroom wag. Upon kmapection, it appeared the water was coming len
through either damaged soffit neer the roof line (repaired) or nail hales in the roof
repaired). To date the leak has not reappeared. A leak in the bathroom of unit
203 is being caussl by water from the upstairs bathroom. The contractor and
several mora have boar in to look acrd repair the problem with little luck.
It is not a continuous leak but leaks about twice a month or when the upstairs
shower rams for over 2 hours. We have made numerous attempts to repair. We
continue to watch it and look for the source.
Our Maintenance Engineer hjured his back in the last weds of July. The strain
was dight and we anticipate Erg recovery.
In the haat weds of July, it was discovered that one of the windows in the rear of
the building was shattered. It was next to the rear entrance. Only the outside pane
was shattered. It appeared that a small object went through the window. A
replacement window has been orda4 installation is 7.10 working days out.
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V. IANAMURCES
A. Steffelanges during the report month: NONE
B. Staff Tnining Pw&%=:
Title ofamsm AUMdl=
NCP—.
C. SteffMaelbW (attach minutes): held WM" meadop with each off.
VI. am= Emma
Ust any Account Rwdvddu over on month past due and action td=: None
VII. RTMONTH
A. Reserve Apartment 216 (DID NOT ACHMVB)
B. Phudized Water Softener innap,
C. Met with 49 residents to complete Around Varifiscation.
D. Organize Food Perspective
B. Work with staff to cowdmoo &wn &n* guff vw4bong.
F Set-up FWM with Grater Ld= Food Bank br the residents.
G. Expand craft am 004ft programs.
H Provide ostentallon for new Ron" Council members.
Prepare kOft.grmodi6residents, and staff9brMusic iathe Park ono&N.
L Cmdmto work withessintenanco slaffto keep maintenance room dean,
VM. GOALS FOR
A Prepare for Resident SdWbcdoo Survey distribution.
B. Complete water softener bids ad adwilt to City for approval.
C. Prepare fa National Night Out Ics Cream Socid.'
D. Begin I'm Okay Program.
E Preparv, for managers vacation.
PTS RESIDENT MEETING
JULY 19, 1995
1. The meeting was called to order with over 55 residents and Sarah Miller present.
2. The June 20 Meeting Minutes were not distributed to residents and approval was not available.
3. The Resident Fund has a balance of $185.69 (added $36 from Potluck).
The Kitchen Fund has a balance of $99.63.
Total of $285.32
We anticipate receiving $392 from the Food Test Participation.
4. The new Resident Council Members were introduced.
S. Sarah reviewed the following Maintenance issues:
Cracking apartment doors open to cool units.
Do not prop open the garage doors for any reason.
There is a new cart in the Party room to help transfer packages to apartments.
Do not attempt to repair the exercise equipment, write up work order for maintenance staff.
Break down cardboard before putting in container or place boxes next to container and staff wi
break down.
Tell us about carpet spills in the common area ASAP so we can clan up before it sets.
6. Kim Schnacky reviewed the following programs:
Food Bank Program: Residents will be asked to sign-up on a monthly basis as not all resident
wanted to participate. Food distribution will be on a fust come, first serve basis. If a resider
is unable to be on-site on distribution date, they can leave a grocery bag in the office with thei
name on it and a volunteer will fill it.
1.
S.
If you have books to donate to the Plymouth Library Sale, please bring it to the office by 8/4.
The I'M Okay program will be starting shortly.
The egg Painting craft class was repeated due to demand.
Kathryn Lents, the Sunshine Person, will sell cards on Thursday Mornings at IOAM .in th
Dining Room during Coffee.
Sarah provided an update on the Water Softener. The HRA Board meeting was canceled for July
The Hot & Cold water bids will be presented at the August Board Meeting.
The following Miscellaneous Announcements were made:
The Treasure Island Casino trip could be canceled due to low turn -out. Need 34 to go.
On Friday, 7/21 at 11 am, Mosey Along with Moe will be here to tell about his day trips.
The Bingo Set is paid off.
A Coupon Clippers box has been placed n the Activities Room for residents use.
Sarah will be out of the office Thursday PM and all day Friday.
Kim and Lance start vacation 7/26 and will be gone till 8/14.
9. July B -days and Move -ins were announced. Cake and coffee will follow meeting.
ting Adjourned,
c:tfully
Pat Lambie, Secretary
RESIDENT COUNCIL MEETING
JULY 26.1995
1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Present: ,
A M
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2. INTRODUCTIONS
First Floor: Bea Kelley; Mary 1VL'ller; PAt Lambie
Second Floor. Coy AW Joyce McCaughey
Third Floor. Arnold Seppa, Stella Kr a
3 APPROVAL OF JUNE 12,1995 MINUTES
Check "Present" list 1. rhaavv
2 . Build
4. RESIDENT FUND @ 185.69 + 392.00 from Food Test m $577.69
Kitchen Fund @ 99.63, Total @ $677.32
Discussion on where to hold money
S. PURPOSE OF RESIDENT COUNCIIJORIENTATION
Length of term Ivem&„
Member duties
v;u vn 1 n ti
Alm to hold meetings
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TWNS. 3°0
j 6. GOALS OF COUNCIL,
What would you him to.
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Distribute hand-outs
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7. RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY
8. RESIDENT MEETING DISCUSSION
9. RESIDENT OR BUILDING ISSUES "r
10. PANCAKE BREAKFAST
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11. PIZZA PARTY
12. TV OPERATION
Meeting Adjourned
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Issue No. 7 JULY 95JULY995
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1995-96 RESIDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS .
The following individuals have been elected to represent the
Resident Community at the monthly Resident Council Meetings.
Come and meet them in an informal setting at the 10:00 am Coffee
on Thursday, July 13. Free Donuts and coffee.
Apt. 123 Ben Kelley
Apt. 131 Mary Miller
Apt. 132 Pat Lambie
Apt. 211 Coy Perry
Apt. 221 Joyce McCaughey
Apt. 303 Arnold Seppa
Apt. 307 Stella Krout
NO "ML -A -RIDE" SERVICE ON TUESDAY, JULY 4—HOLIDAY
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ANNOUNCEMENTS ...................................
Did you imow, that
medically sound footcare can enhance your ability
to get around and your overall well being. This
type of footcare differs from the standard
pedicure. This nurse can assess your circulation
as well as the health of your lower extremities.
She also recognizes common foot care problems.
A Registered Footcare Nurse will be on site to
provide her services on August 24th and
September 28th in the Wellness Clinic on 1st
floor. For more information or an appointment
call FOOTCARE NURSE at 546-0153.
AIR CONDITIONERS Each unit has an internal thermostat, controlled by the left
knob, which tells the machine when to make cold air. In addition, there are two
different settings for the fan: Fan Qsle and Fan Continuoug
When it is set on Fan Continuous the fan will blow continuously. When the unit feels
Ae temperature in the room matches the thermostat the compressor shuts off but the
fan will continue to operate and blaw warm air until the room temperature rises and
compressor kicks in.
The second is Fan Cycle. When the unit is set to this function, when the air
compressor stops the fan will also stop. When the temperature in the room rises, the
unit will automatically turn on the compressor and fan.
The switch for the fan function is under the A/C cover. If you would like the function
changed and need assistance, please write up a Maintenance Work Request. ie *Ilot
HLI Krolve, 64mf hel l
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ACCently, several items have been misplaced. If you happen to come upa
items, we would appreciate it if you would bring them to the office:
Electric room heater Cordless Drill Garage Door Opener
4'1OATAI Y
GARAGE DOOR OPENER
We have changed the code to the garage door. You need to bring your remote opener
to the office to have it's code changed. We apologize for any inconvenience, however it'' is for your safety.
When you are in the common areas of the building, please wear some we
Of foot covering. Do not go barefoot in the building.
Please do not place any containers in front of the garage doors electronic eyes.
This keels the door open and becomes a safety hazard.
JULY BIRTHDAYS
7/7 Mannie Villareal Apt. 127
7/8 Dick Tell . Apt. 235
7/9 Dorothy Gavett Apt. 322
7/19 Sophie Petschl Apt. 331
7/23 Ruth Peterson Apt. 332
7/23 Henry Napolitan Apt. 200*
7/30 Ruth Clark Apt. 111
MUSIC, IN THF. PARK
The City of Plymouth is sponsoring "Music in the Park" on Thursday, July 6 in the park
across the stre8t. The police department restricts traffic on 37th Avenue beginning theafternoonoftheevent. To make it easier for residents to pass through the police
blockade, we have Parking Passes which you can show to the police. They are availableintheolee. If you need one, please stop down to the office and pick one up,
In addition, please remember to not sit on the lawn due to the new sod.
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service per padmp purchased
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You Pay S H?VWw transportation
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You Get Meats. Vegetables, and Fnd s
Fare SHARE is a self-help start -profit program.
It works because: Food is purchased is truck
loads; Savings are passed on w yowl Fare
SHARE is an innovative way for everyone to
save money and yourcommunity benefits from
the volume" work of the people who parddpate.
Fare SHARE serves communities in Minnesota.
Wisconsin, Nonhwestem Iowa. and bard"
conumnites in North and South Dakota.
Monthly Sample Package
I lb. Plods Paniaa
116. Deli Mess
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3.5 Ms. Mickel Isp
1 lb. CWdn Pranks
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NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
FOR SENIORS (NAPS)
FREE FOOD FOR LOW-INCOME SENIORS
Who is NAPS for?
Seniors 60 years or older
Residents of: Ramsey, Hennepin, Dakota, Anoka,
Washington, Scott/Carver, Sibley & McLeod Counties
Low income seniors who meet federal income guidelines
What food does NAPS provide?
Milk
Canned fnlits, vegetables and juice
Canned meat, egg mix, beans & peanut butter
Cereal, macaroni, rice and instant potatoes
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The following are upcoming "Outbound Tours" available. Check the b-illetia board fpr,
more information.
TREASURE ISLAND CASINO RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL
Date: 07/27/95 Date: 08/19/95
Fee: FREEI Fee: $28.00 per person
Sign up by 07/20/95 Payment due date: 07/19/95
FLOWER GARDEN TOUR OSCEOLA/ST. CROM VALLEY RAILWAY
Date: 08/08/95 Date: 101080S
Fee: $30.00 per person Fee: $33.50 per person
Payment due dater 07/05/95 Payment due date: 09/08/95
FOOD TEST AND FUNDRAISER
PTS is hosting a Visual Food Test on July 13. We need 100 people to participate in a
visual test for Nutritional Bars. We need individuals SS years and olderwho are
interested in a. nutritional bar -- this is a visual test only. Anyone who works for a
major Food Company can not be a tester. We -mill schedule 20 people per test which
will be held at 1:00 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Food
Perspectives, Inc. is sponsoring the test and will pay $5.00 to each participant and
donate $4.00 per participant to the Resident Fund. This is an easy, fun fundraiser for.
the building. To meet the 100 person requirement, we win need as many peopte
possible to participate. If you have any family or friends who would like to hide some
fun and make $5 in the process, please have them come. If you would like additional
information, please see Sarah in the office.
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CRAFTS CLASSES ARE
We have found someone to help teach crafts on a monthly or bi monthly basis. Her
name is Lori Ertl. Lori teaches crafts in s9wersl other senior buildings. We will be
having our first class with her In early duly (Friday, 07/07 at 2:00 pm) and dependingonInterestshownwewillrescheduleherreturns (1 or 2X monthly). 8 you plan to
participate, let us know your opinion afterwards PLEASE. Cost involved is mhdmaL
Everything you need will be provided and there will be plenty of individual instruction
and help. Time is not limited and Lori will stay until everyone Is finished.
UKRAINIAN EGG PAINTING"
THIS WILL BE OUR FIRST EXCITING CRAFT
CLASS1/111 IT'S FUN AND EASY. NO SKILLS ARE
NEEDED. YOU CAN FOLLOW A DESIGN AND/OR
CREATE YOUR OWN. ALL SUPPLIES PROVIDED
AND LOTS OF HELP!!! BRING YOURS M A
Date: 07/07/95
Time: 2:00 pm
Cost: $6.00 (covers all supplies)
Place: To be announced
ARTISTIC????? For those interested, the office has information on classes in "basic
drawing" or "pastel techniques" available at a fee. If you are Interested, the office has
literature available for you to look at. If there is enough interest, we can schedule
classes.
NO BINGO JULY 6 DUE TO "MUSIC IN THE PARK"
Do you have a bit of drama in your personality? Join the troupe of players
who read and dramatize children's stories in the Wayzata ElementarySchoolsandforseniorcitizengroups. They practice twice per month on the
second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Performance times will vary. These will be an informational meeting on Wednesday, July 5 at 10:00 am inthe3rdfloorConferenceroomorcallSaraMittelstedtat550-5137.
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DAT& Sepember 8, 1995 for Housing and Redevelopment Authority Meeting of
September 21,1995
TO: Acne Hurib urt, ,Executive Director .
FROM: Denise Hutl;7i dog Technician througb HRA Supervisor Ed Goldse
SUBJECT: APPLICATION PROCESS FOR SBCI'ION 9 C MTUgCATE WAMNG
LIST
As you are swan, from August 22 dm*b August 24, 1995, we accepted requests for
applications for our Section 8 Certificate Program. Requests for applications could be made to
either the City's phone -mail system, the City's TIM, or in person at City Hall. Applications
wen mailed to 863 potential applicants on August 29, 1995. They were given until September
15, 1995 (17 days from the date of mailing), to return their application materials.
Applications an dated as they an received. Applications received on the same date are ranked
by a modom lottery.
On Sepmmber 6, 1995, we wore advised by our telcgshone system staff that 217 ovallow
messages wen on the phone -mail system from the dates when we had been taking requests for
applladons. These messages had berm divested from our primary phone -mail box when it
became full during the day. No one on stats had known that these messages had to be
retrieved separately.
In order to be fair, we modified our application procedure to conduct a second FnIfel
application praxes. All additional requests (excluding duplicates for a total of 1") wen
mailed appli atioa material on September 8. 1995. They were given until September 25, 1995
17 days from the date of the mailing), to return their application material. Our
Administrative Pfau states that applicados shall be dated as they are reeved, but with the
modified application Procedure, there is the need to dump the date madved to coincide with
the Parallel application Process. Bach application received from the socoad mailing will be
combined with applications from the first mailing that were received the same number of
business days ftom the date of its respective mailhug and ranked by a modom lottery.
Stag believes Ibis will rmk in a fair ad ea'= OPpniumity for IFFMCAM to be placed mMeSRA's Saxton 8 waiting List. HUD Staff has been coundled an this maw am haveConaueedwithus.
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received and approved win bepfdtotheCommissionersatfutueomeetings.
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DAM September 8, 1995 for Housing 4t Redevelopment Authority bleating
of September 21, 1995
TO: Anne Hurlburt, E:wcutive Director through Edward GoWIRA
Supervisor
FROM: Milt Dale, Housing Specialist
SUBJECT: Reallocation of CDBG Funding to the Plymouth Rehabilitation
GmndLoan Program
The high demand for rehabilitation f uldiog for homes in Plymouth has exhausted our
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Rehab Program funds for this year.
in My a public hearing was held with the board recommending to the City Council that
an additional $26,000 be reallocated from two other CLSO activities to the Rehab
Program. These funds have been committed. Ager the July 20 BRA meeting, I wrote
to all 16 homeowners then active with the Rebab Program to explain the limitation of
funding. Four homeowners responded with a request that consideration be given to
fund urgent work on their homes yet this year. I visited each bomoowaer to Confirm
the nature and scope of the requested work and that it was necessary to be done before
year's end.
In my evaluation, it appears the Rehab Program would need approximately $19,000 in
fading to meet these additional requests. In searching out other funding sources, I
fust determined what funding is available in other CDBG activity accounts. I have
listed the account balances that I estimate to be available as follows:
First Time Homebuyer Program $8,017
Early Childhood Education 1,864
Community Builders 3,444
Hammer Residences M
Total $13,734
Brune Larson of Community Builders has indicated that they would not need the
1 funding committed to them through the end of the year. The Early Childhood
Hducation account has bees inactive for over a year and the funds should be considered
as excess. An additional $5,000 may be available at the end of do year from
uowrpended admWatsative funds, but we cannot be ceafain of this at this time. we
could reallocate an additional $5,000 from the CDBG admiaisbadon account to fully
fund the four rehab regoeds at $18,734. However; ' in the event this amannt is not
available, we would need the Bmard's authorization to cover any shortfall in the CDBG
Admin dmdon account whh up to $5,000 from the HRA General Fund. 7bb amount
will be available from the vd9ft Fund balance in the HRA General Purod. The
reallocation of $18,734 would not excood the 525,000 tinshold for dgaificant CDBG
program revisions and can be reallocated without a public hearing.
I recommend that the Board adopt the attached Resolution r+equestlog fie Clty
Council to reallocate these accowd balances to the CDBG RdmbWf dm
Grant/I.oan Program and authorke the use of up to $5,000 f0ma the LIRA
General Bund to fund any dwrtllall In the CDBG Administration account.
HRA RESOLUTION 95-08
G REALLODCATiON OF FISCAL YEAR 1995 C0h9dU VITY
DEVELOPNMVT BLOCS GRANT (CDBG) FUNDS
WHEREAS, the demand for assistance to maim needed home improvements has
exceeded the funding available in the 1995 allocation for the City of Plymouth's
Rehabilitation Gnwt/Loan Program; and,
WHEREAS, unexpended funds are available in the City's Fust Time Homebuyers
Loan and Development Program as well as Early Childhood Education, Community
Builders, and Hammer Residences activities; and,
WHEREAS, on September 21, 199S, the Plymouth Housing and Redevelopment
Authority (HRA) held a regular meeting to discuss the proposed reallocation of CDBG
fitads;
NOW THBRBFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSING AND
RBDBVELOMMNT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH, lr NMOTA,
that the Authority recommends to the Plymouth City Council that it reallocate from the
1995 CDBG budget, any unexpended account balances frac the First Time
Homebuyers Loan and Development Program, Batty Childhood Education, Community
Builders and Hammer Residences activities up to a total of $13,734 plus $5,000 from
the CDBG Adumustradon account to the Rehabilitation Grant/I.oaa Program.
Adopted by the Plymouth Housing and Redevelopment Authority on September 21,
1995.
DATE: September 11, 1995 for Housing and Redevelopment Authority Meeting of
September 21, 1995
TO: Anne Hurlbuurt, Executive Director
FROM: Edward Goldsmith, HRA Supervisor(/
SUBJECT: Affordable and Ufa -Cycle Housing Issues for the Ehn Creels Chow Planning Project
and the Metropolitan livable Communities Act and Resolution Recommending City
Participation in These Programs
As part of the Elm Crock Cluster Planning Project and the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act,
the City Council will need to make a number of decisions in regards to participation in these
activities. N the City is to participate, the Council, MU. Bed Planning Commission will need to
undertake a number of activities required under these programs. The following sanative summarises
the Livable Communities Act and the actions that need to be taken by the City. The attached
supplemental materials provide more in depth information for future discussions. This information is
also being provided to the City Council and Planning Commission.
Under the livable Communities Act, the City has the option to participate in a number of programs
funded by the legislature and administered by the Metro Council to produce more affordable and life-
cycle housing in the Metropolitan region and clean-up polluted lard to promote economic
development. The City Council must notify the Metro Council of its intention to participate in these
programs for 1996, by November 15, 1995. Participation requires that the City agree to continue to
spend a specified amount of local funds in support of affordable and lifo-cycle housing, negotiate a
housing agreement with the Metro Council by December 8, 1995, that establishes bousing goals for
the City, and develop a housing action plan by June X, 1995, that specifies the actions to be tabun to
achieve the housing goals. The amount of local funds to be spent annually in support of affordable
and ilfe-cycle housing, starting in 1997, is estimated at $81,174. Currently, the City's expenditure of
approximately $250,000 amorally to subsidize rents at Plymouth Towne Square meets this
requirement.
The agreement currently being negotiated for the Elm Creek Cluster Planning Project as part of the
development of the Els Crack sewer distributor, will also serve as the basis for the Livable
Communities housing agreement. This agreement is expected to be completed in November, 1995. It
will include a requirement that the City revise the Housing Element of the City's Comprehensive Plan
within 6 months of the Metro Council's adoption of housing guidelines for comprehensive plans. The
J guidelines are to be adopted by approximately Oc toba 1, 1995.
The attached report on affordable bomang in Plymouth is a revised version of a report previously
distributed to Hoard members. It raises the following issues for the City:
Plymouth's 1990 median housing value was $127,400 compared to $97,400 for the Twin Cities.
The median lent in 1990 was $611 compared to $479 for the Twin Cities.
In 1990, 563 Plymouth households with incomes 30 percent of median income or less (75 %) paid
more than 30 percent of their income for housing. 509 households at this income level (68%) paid
more than 50 percent of their income for housing.
564 Plymouth households with incomes from 31 to 50 percent of median income (76%) paid mote
than 30 percent of their income for housing. 265 (36%) paid mon than 50 peeceat of their income
for housing.
Then is a shortage of housing affordable to households with incomes less than 50 percent of
median income. These is, however, a surplus of units affordable to households between 51 and 80
percent cf median income. Despite this 'surplus', 1,030 households at this income level (52%)
paid mon than 30 percent of their income for housing. This mismatch occurs because households
with higher incomes live in units for which they pay less than 30 percent of their income. In total,
in 1990, almost 1,600 households in Plymouth with incomes below 80% of the media income
wen in need of affordable housing.
Almost 50% of the people who work in Plymouth live mom than two communities beyond
Plymouth's borders.
In 1990, residents of Plymouth generally earned mon than persona who commuted to work in
Plymouth. This is indicative of a hack of housing affordable to persons who work in Plymouth.
The lack of affordable housing for workers in the City increases traffic congestion, air and noise
pollution, the demand for the construction, maintenance and operation of expensive roads and
transit facilities, and the difficulty for local businesses to him and retain wadm.
Current land prices make the development of affordable housing more difficult in Plymouth.
The City is running out of residential land within the MUSA. Then is especially a dotage of
lad zoned for multi -family residential housing. While the MUSA line very Hbdy contributes to
increased land costs in Plymouth, the City's large kit size and low density mquimments compound
the problem. The location of the MUSA may be outside the City's control, but the kit size,
density and amount zoned for residential use are decisions made by the City. Smaller lets, mon
efficient densities, and mom land zoned for residential use would increase the supply and the
opporpmities for development of affordable housing.
As people move through their life cycles, their horsing needs change. The age and composition
of households in the City are changing. Sow will the City meet the lifecycle housing needs of its
cidzema in ten, twenty and thirty years? Will people have to move to other communities when
their housing needs change? Will Plymouth be left with an oversupply of large single family
homes?
What incentives can the City provide to property owners to include affordable ad His cycle
housing in development of their land? Should the City requite that developers include such
housing as a condition for approval of land use changes, variances, eocoeptiona, PUD flexibility
etc.?
To meat the housing needs of residents and employees in the present and future, a community
needs to provide housing choice through a range of housing types and prim. This sequins that
public resources and policy foster the development of affordable ilfo qde housing.
Because of the significant implications for future development and especially the development of
affordable housing within the city of Plymouth, the HRA may wish to advise the City Council of its
reoommendatlen relative to the City's participation in the Bim Creek Cluster Planning Project and the
programs established under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act. I have drdW the attached
resolution for the Board to consider, if it wishes to recommend such participation to the City Council.
I rsw mrmd that the Board adopt the attached Resolution reoommmdiog to the City Coundl
that It elect to partkipats In progresus established under the Metsnpolihn Ilwobla CemnmWdm
Act and negotiate do houft agreement required by the TAm Creek Chuder Planning P49d.
Ate:
Board Resolution
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Hoeft Affambffilep In Plymouths
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HRA RESOLUTION NO.95-
RBCOM1EiDING THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH'S PARTICIPATION IN THE BIM CREEK
CLUSTER PLANNING PROJECT AND PROGRAMS UNDER THE MBTROPOIITAN LIVABLE
CV)M1d 1rIITlBS ACT
WHBRBAS, the Metropolitan Council has advised the City that the Council's decision to extend
sewer service to the northwest comer of Plymouth that is currently outside of the Council's Municipal
Urban Service Area (MUSA) will be contingent upon the City entering into a housing agreement with
the Council that establishes certain housing objectives for the City related to the development of
affordable and life -cycle lousing as part of the Elm Creek Cluster Planning Project; and ,
WHEREAS, continued urban development within the city beyond the next three to five years will
require that sewer services from the Metropolitan Council be extended into northwest Plymouth; and,
WHEREAS, the extension of urban development into northwest Plymouth will provide opportunities
for the development of affordable and life -cycle housing as part of a broad range of diverse housing
types at a variety of prices; and,
WHEREAS, the Minnesota legislature has made available fh aceial assistance for the development of
affordable and life -cycle housing and the clean-up of polluted leads under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act that would aid development of such housing in Plymouth; and ,
WHEREAS, affordable and life -cycle housing has been ida fiod as needed by Plymouth residents
and persons working and expected to work in the city; and,
WHEREAS, in order to participate in the financial assistance programs established under the
Metropolitan Livable Communities Act the City must advise the MetropoWan Council that it elects to
participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program of the Act by November 13 of each year starting
in 1995;
WHEREAS, it is part of the stated mission of the HRA to promote and assist in the creation and
maintenance of a variety of affordable, life -cycle housing opportunities in Plymouth;
NOW THBREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH, MINNBSOTA, that the Authority drongly
recommends to the Plymouth City Council that it elect to participate in the Local Housing Incentive
Account Program of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act by the November 15, 1995 deadline;
and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Authority recommends that the City Council pursue
negotiation of the housing agreement requited for participation in the Elm Creek Cluster Planning
Project that would ultimately lead to the extension of sewer service and the MUSA into northwest
Plymouth.
Adopted by the Plymouth Housing and Redevelopment Authority on September 21, 1993.
AFFORDABLE LnT CYCLE HOUSING IN THE
TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN REGION
The Regional Picture
O A bW samba Of Wn CMm boassholb psy too mach Por real. About 125,000 66usehobb
16 percent of the hmseito & in the region) pay more than 30 percent of their hmme for
housing (in 1990 Some 7MW of the housebobb live in Minneapolis or . Paul. and Mabe cep
25 percent of al! the hmehoWs in the two dthm
Atlbrdable honalog fs both a "bm ftw ' Mase In nearly every wA a re Pod lase.
Nearly every dty to the n*n ha a stgniticant number of kwa-bmm bo=eboW payigg too
much for housing.
s Affbrdabk rental mft teed to bo eosantntaL Newly developtog suburbs bm the Lowest
affordable rental udtL Unb are most heavily oanoantmtW in M mmpolk Sl. Paul end in
Freestanding Growth Centers.
ARmdable owamoompfed hoaslog tm& to be coaceatrated to the two astral eftla m we&
Some suburban communities have a isirly high paceatW Other, paetkub* In the south and
southwest parts of the region have las than 10 percent in the affordable price nags
The aeon develqft sobus% a a w+bola hm relatlrdy BUk affable kaasfag. While tbey
have lu d ava0a * they have hlgh land and devebpment oats, a weil a kma** !lotted
subaidia and enmpeltty in treating bouft fm Iowa-moome hOmebd&
O Most of the olds bouft Is loafed fa Khmapalts and St Paas, along Wilk a Lew alder
sobu*L Over 50 percent of the rears! udw and 80 percent of the owaar-Oompted units aro 30
yeah oW or more. In the deveb*ft suburbs 20 percent of the owner and 9 percent of the renter
houstog is 30 years oW or mora
Tire demand for houstag dtamtiva pwq& housw is m* to faaeasa Howrwa. in
more than 60 dtia and townships, over 90 percent of the housing stock aMW of stog"i*
detacW houdnS.
The Subreglonal Picture
O There is assfdenble varkdoa to boaatag costa across the plaaatag saws. In Mtonapob
and St. Paul. 67 percent of the Monthly rents are leas thaw 5500. This fi m is 45 percent in the
fully developed suburt; and about 35 percent in the devdoptog ana (See Ftgtue 12
J
o There is deo ocasidaabb varkdom in housing diva'* man the plamolog aeras. Over one
W of tha comical cities NRWgg Is metal. it b over one dM in the [will dmbpkg suburbs; and
less them one fourth in the developing area.
e The developing am has o land reservoir. Thb area has 84 perp mt of the regim's vacant,
developable land (in IMcompared with 2 to S pa mt in the other pbnning areas within the
There Is eters ellan able housing io'sectoed' ft the mathera poet of the segioae, len m the
e Mast saw jobs will bone in the devislaring area. Thi an will recdves 64 percent of tha job
growth in the l990s.
e More than 40, ' of the job growth in the regime Is agwetd to oats is the seexna south
and southwest of Minim pol&
a This but lies inventory b the first step in reaching a goal of more alfordabb housing in the
region. Tho Coundl TA wet in partnership with eommaaides toward this sod. The Council will
ahrs develop aitaia by which to aurae amm mushy eM I to achieve atfmdable housing through
its review of local Comprehensive plain and its regbml priority setting for regional investmeaM
WHO EARNS LOW INCOMES
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ANNUAL 30% OF INCOME
INCOME FOR RENT
TEACHER AIDE 17,992 450.00
LICENSED PRACTICAL
NURSE 23,296 582.00
RETAIL SALES PERSON 10,920 273.00
SECRETARY 21,819 545.50
NURSE'S AIDE 16,515 413.00
AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC 26;000 650.00
TRAVEL AGENT 19,240 481.00
BANK TELLER 15,309 383.00
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Houmg AfbrdMft In Pk"wWh
The of ordsbility debate has f red on two ma* claims:
1. Thele Is an inadequate amount of affordable housing in the suburbs.
2. Suburbs culude af1[ordable housing with zoning and development regulations.
I.. V flan anordeble housing in Prym m*?
There are several ways to measure the cost of housing in order to assess its dFonkbliity. The
Municipal Legislative Commission OaQ report uses assessed vain. Other measures are the
average elle prise during a defined time period, the median housing value (from the census),
and the median monthly mortgage or rent payment (census).
According to city assessment records, 7,254 of hid housing units (42%) in Plymouth
are assessed at less thea $110.000, ao amount almost of ordsble to households earning 80
percent of the Twin Cities area median income or lees'. This proportion Is lower than the
peroeatage opened by the Municipal Legislative Commission for all participating suburban
mlcoerothos, 48 peroeat.
The assessed value of a housing unit Is not equal to the amount it would take to purchase .that
unit. According to the Multiple Listing Service, In the first half of 1944 the average we of
buying a house outhe maebet in Plymouth was $151,290. Twenty-four percent (24'4), 6118
properties, of all housing units sold during this period sold for leas than $100,000.
The median, housing value In 1940, according to the cam's as rpi; orao'by respondents, was
127,500. This vain is silly higher than the median value for Hemmpio County,
90,600, and the Twin Cities Metropolitan Statistical Area "A)P, $87,400.
According to a survey taco m by the Plymouth Housing and Redevelopment Authority OIRA) in
March of 1944, thea were 5,130 apartal nt notal units in Plymouth. The greatest umber of
these apartment units, 1,226, were raft for between $604 and $6611, followed by 1,187
units vo odog for between $702 and $78.5. A small number of apartments, 320 units, was
renting for $490 or less and all were one bedroom units. The median oubact not in
Plymouth, cwlarlated for one, two and three bedroom units only (9894 of the total units), was
650. A household income of $26,000 would be required to sherd the median an in
Plymouth, according to affordability staodsrds on by the Department of Horsing and Urban
Dr4clopment (11W)•
I lite lwia CWm Ana Msdim l000afa fr a ho0y of tour b cwmody $51,000. ®thy proem (1016) of ..J
dim I== eguds SO.800. Hos WW& at this bo Wd =14 m do avwm% gmli* fur a so dpp of
05,000.
2 7111 burn Cider MSA, w Mind by Wer oeawu, indudea the 60ovieS dddna comda: Anka, Cnwr.
Cdgp, Dakota, Rvesq a, lemd. Pince (WI), R=@W, Se. etc (WI). Sona. Emberoe, WmWoOm ad
Wd&.
40010 1,190
MWb964
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07os b M
SW ee.eea
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0019490
ed.rar.e Udb
Number of Units by and jamb
r 200 400 600 600 low 1200 1400
Number of Udt9
yi IMM MA WnW of PWWA VWWMW emb, UN& 1994.
Now IW HRA mlyewvep mk dew eligible ford e Guy's SoWm 6 cwdfimbe a mb h mm dm m dudiw
dee rad four bedroom udb (xs of lobi new vaib) bad bel ded In tbb aleulatim
There aro severed ways to bolt at then maasuues of bousio8 coat to determine whether or not
MOM is an adequate amount of hooft affotdsble to low and moderaro im me Muse wbb.
One way is to uae a Vaud standard such ua the MetropoWan Co mdl'g 1985 g
ieomomendsdon that 63 percent of a commenhy's owneroaatpied
houtdog be d%rdable to households at 80 percent of midi n fmx me. Udo8 the p gxwfon
calculated in the MLC report, 42 go cew of Plymouth's homesicam houdgg Uinta wear
afford" at this i000me level.
Making compadsons between the cost of housing in a City and its ndghboft oomaunitie
and/or its larger MRSIon is snottier way to judge the adequacy of the amount of affordable
higbet medlanmedi n mortgage cost, costm
amumaitie, Plymouth less the fourth
highest median rent (According to the Caomu), and tM
third higher median houft value. PlYaouth gaoentPY has higher MUMPS Conus the Millie
Grove, New Holo, and Golden Valley, Wroximmely the sear poets as Mhmetoolm, sod
lower costa than Medias, Orono aM Wayzata.
Cast of Housing In Adjacent Communities
Cammudb' Median
Cod
Medico Rent MWIM MKIft
vdue
Gomm Vdley s96 S22 Slon,Zoo
Mepb om" 919 710 96.000
MEN= 1,117 629. 121,700
bli0odowa 1,007 660 120,000
Hope 766 523 92,700
oNm
n 1,354 673 174,300
PbUDdIb 1,104 611 127,'00
w"Zda
1Z4romenv COUNTY
1,107
833
343
SM
137,700
904001
UUMIM 17M W.D.
I cold llg at how aftabble a community's Current housing dwk is g0 its cannot residents Can
be another indictor of a Sufficient wppiy of et%rdable housiog. The Depagment of RougingandUd= Dem (HUD) defines of onloble housing as housing for which a household
pays no mons then 30 percent of its income. lafoimation from the census iodipges ghat 4,002
households (22%) in Plymouth were paying mane then 30 pescmt of their l000me for housing
in 1990. Of theme honseholda, 1,093 of them (6% of total households) paid more than 50
pescont of their income for housing.
BeMrse some households may choose to quad more,than thirty penaat (30%) of their iocxime
on housing, it is important to look 6pecifiaiuy at those households that ave best able to spend
mon of their income on housing. In Plymouth, these was 563 households with incomes 30
percent of median income or less (75 96 of boueeholds st ibis income levd) that paid mon then
30 pment of their income for housing. Five huodted sixty-four households with inoomm
fmm 31-50, 1 P I of median income (76% of households at this income level) paid mon then
30 percent of their income for housing. An11,030 households with incomes from 31 to g0
pereeat of median income (52% of households at this income ievQ paid mon then 30 penest
Of their income for housing. By contrast, 12.5 peraont of households with lowmm poster
don 80- - I of mod -An paid aurre than 30 peasant of their i000me fog housing.
Households with Af[oedebilily Problems
foorme Lead Nombw of
RovedW&
Snub"
Pwlt > 309
I
resent Newel oW
Pkft > 609
of income
OFaaeot
309 of Medim
iaoomo
732 363 759 no 689
31309 of Me"
lnooms
7O4 364 769 263 369
31409 of Madim
Income
1,971 4000 329 217 119
0 809 of Medim
iaoome
am- PQAY'R
14,746 1,843 12.39 102 0.79
2000
1x00
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Low IInoomo Households that Pldd Nion than 30 P, mout of Their
Income for Sousing
IMS
30% of Medico 31-505 Ofma" 31-80% of Madhm
h000me Lend
ifoue&" Pdd X30%hrHoubs
Soum HUD CHAS Dabhoak
In 1990, 1 percent of Plymouth's housing units were affordable to households aaeni4s less Han
30 peroeom of median income, 11 percent to households eaming between 31 and 50 percent of
median, and 33 percent b housebolds earning between SI and So percent of median.
Unto Af animble to Low Income Souaebolds
heeemeLavd OWM&OMWw RMftr4u " Tobin
WON Uedb Was
Udb Afl6ebMe to Hoettbddb < 30% of 64 130 214Medicshacome5%
Uelrs Afbrd to Io Haueehdb 31.60% of 261 212 473
Medhm haaome
Unib Affad" ro Houeeholb 31-80% of 2,013 4,201
14.5% 16;Q14Medimhumms
TOTAL OmwW sed Vacant Unib
f..—__- ...
13,8321 5.61 19443
a.sae+a a—eouu', aaow it, Faro 1 ase 2
A compwison of the number of units affordable to households of certain income levels to the
number of households at the same income level indicates there is a shortage of units affordable
to bouaesioWs with iacomes leas than or equal to 50 percent of median income (the grossest
portion being households with incomes leas thea 30 percent of median income) but a mrpha ofJnullaforhouseholdswithincomesbetween51and80penxntofmedianincome.
4
This 'MON' of housing units affordable to households with mousses Sl to 80 percent of
median roma does not, however, mean that the households with incomes in this range aro
squally living In the units dfmdable to them. 711118 were 1,030 households in this income
category paying mons than 30 percent of their income for housing. 7be comparison does not
accouist for households with incomes greater than 80 percent of median income that may be
living in unite af%rdeble at the 80 percent level and below.
Affordable Houelog Units Compared to Rausibolds
borers taws rad Burka NMOW d
U.tb Nomebd& dudb
0-300 of MOM runners 214 732 3311
31-50% of Nether fsooms 473 744 271
51-M Of:Medi hoome 6,214 1971 4,243x<`kM he ;xet901" ;""' _ ''`?:ex:..9 ZP``'+0
a -- ca nna lAoMMM6 -A m 4. DLII/ 1 as =:15010 3, Fba 3 Md a
Thera an several OW Plymouth bas done to increase of tradable bonsisg in the City. TheyIncludeth0followingactivities:
and Redevelopment"-'ry
Tho Plymouth Housigg and Redevelopment Aufiwnity
OMA) has administered its own Secdon 8 Certificste prngeam since 1976. The HRA was
osigioally anted to enable the City to eater into be own Annual Cangibinfoos Ccnaad
ACC) with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HI)iD) to recalve Section 8
Casfificew. At this time, the City is under coubm with HUD for dgbty-saver cartifiesses.
Because Soexion 8 Cadfmte reds may an their cardfiestos d eougbout the ssattupolitan
ams, Plymouth has certificate holden who are 'port cuts' and who are 'port ins'.
Specifically, 24 of Plymouth's certificates was being used outside of Plymouth, and 60 of
other .;ommumidm' certificates were being used in Plymouth as of November 30, 1994 mallog
a total of 123 Section 8 Cmdfiates being used in Plymouth.
76e HRA consistently has many families on the waiting list to receive a Section 8 ca dflate
and has applied but been turned down for additional certificates to save this unmet seed.
HUD cmremly coquina jurisdictions to operate a qualified Family Sdf_Sufficiency p ogmas m
order to me" additional eeetiffeu . Plymouth is woddog with the St. Louis Park HRA to
devdW a Ndf-mdrcmcy program to save families in both eommusitma and eaeble the cities
to apply for additional artidpta.
Only a wall number of apartments in the City rent for under the Fair Market Real (FMR), the
level sequined by HUD for a unit to qualify under the Section 8 p mgram. Because of this, the
city of Plymouth has applied for and taceived exception rem which set a higher rent standard
for the City at the point where 45 percent of all rental nab qualify for the Section 8 pwpam.
These exception rents are cunadly betweea 13 and 14 percent blow than ERM's PMRs.
Plymouth Es{ *dm Rents Compared to Fair Mmtd Reston
Uffft sinFmfrmwdd
slow
Pb=006
ENNOW11mb"
Dhy
Mdw
1 Bedroom M 50 63 135
2 BWW= 615 716 101 16%
3 Bedroom X34 116 145
no w %M;o A, zy"
Applied for In ft. IM
90111012 A V00ehm The city Of Plymouth has contracted with the Md"dftn MA to
administer any Section 8 voucher used in Plymouth. There were fifty vowbn being used in
the City as of August 31, 1994.
The city of Plymouth is an andthmad
Community for the Community Development Mock ORO (CDBM pqpm. Sim 1975, the
City hu wasived $3.2 million in CDBG Buds and 74percent, 52.4 million, of the City's
funds have been used to fund housing activities.
Over ow4WW of all CDBG funds have been used for housing rehabilitation. 7Waay4h=
r vpm (23%) have been used for two dillbraut first-time bomeboyerpmStums.
In addition to those two primary housing activities, do HRA has used CMIG to fund pre-
dwdopmew and planning coos for a ww" housing project, to b* support special needs
housing dealapmeaft, nou-profft housing &wdopmeo% 90 a 1=0 advocacy service.
CDBG Funding for Housing
HsuftAdMW Told
itimdigp
1'b seat d
TOW CDBG
Boydas Fun&
Mudd
TOW CVW
left
NM*Wd
Udb
AmMsd
IM7.725 455 335 154
M,731 315 235 48
37
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Houft Fix 432,149 is% 135 97
RMW Nosh Hndos 118,228 Ss 4% 3
Ncel"t Haft Dwelopowl 41= 20 is 2
TOWN Advoncy SIOADO 0.45. NA
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0.35
745 3" 1
V- WMEMMO OUMUM"
U 1 —1 ZIIMIM MMUANM Is, October 1994, the &M subsidized
apartment building for eani0r citizens ir. Ptymou& was conVIded. The ninety-nine unit
building Provides, subsidized housing for scalor citimus, with priority Sim to qqftnu with
incomes 50 or 80 percent of median income. Plymouth Towne Sgna:e is fmaoced, owned,
operated and subsidised by the HRA.
Non-Proft AdIrMse In the last two years, the HRA hes allocated CDBO ad other fuodiog
to a number of non-profit housing developers. Several non-profit units an in the prones; of
being purdmW or coustmcted. The developers funded an as follows.
Cemmsiq Bddm: Operating a Lase4o-Purchase Poppon for two noun in Plymouth.
A household will sent the mit for two years while paring in a homeownership
haieft pwSmot and then assume ownerebip of the propatty.
Cammodly Hose hWanh Constructing a duplex for foster can housing for physically
Hammen Residents: Porchodog one single family unit for supportive bossing for
developmentally dkdW adults.
Plymouth Housing Messes: Currently eonstnwft a snrgle Emily home for t1w4me
homeownership by a low-ince family.
Rwage The City approved an oppilation to the state for nine million
dollars in mold-family housing revenue bonds for a individual to purchase nod nbebilitsee a
313-mit apartment conon. The use of revenue bonds requires that 20 peroent of dl unit; be
leased to households with incomes at or below 50 peraat of the aura median income.
Non-BRA Affordable Houdmg Units
There an 153 project-based, fedoally eubsldiaed units in the
City. These Section 8 New Construction deveWputents not to families nim incomes, less d m
50 percent of media income sad limit oat to 30, - p p - of a twaWs income. The four
Section 8 buildings are an nattered sites throughout the southern potion of the City.
A limited number of Plymouth
developments have received f wft through various Minowft Housing Plosoce Agency
GAJ Pte.
A seventeen unit apartment building received an Apartment Renovation MorHage (ARM).
ARM limits the building to charging fair market rent (PMR) and requires that 75 percent
of the units be reared to households with anood incomes no more then dxty-six times mo
gross monthly rent.
A development utilising Low Imoome Tax Credits (Lilt:) is in the approval process. This
Wily-four unit buiilding will serve tomb with incomes no amu than 60 percent of median
income.
The Community Involvement Program, a non• obit osgaintim, rebobiliteted a HUD-
foreclosed property d rough MHPA's HUD $1 Romp Program to provide one mit of
supportive housing for persons with mend dimeae.
Tho Homeward Bound program received fuading dmogb WMA's Developmead
Disabilities program for the purchase of one suppotive housing unit for pereone with
developmeotel disabilities.
The cumber of of balible housing unds assisted with public buds are summarised in the
following Wes (as mentioned previously, some units an in process).
as— A m I Affordable Housing Units
ftqpamjnm dapmeol I Utdb tar trdte tar far TWAL;:
BNowd servia Do@&
C N%d C 60% d C 80% of Boom 191,1:.11.0-14
Mod= 8 ftwhn 22!qdg Rene m
Medba
1
MWISMIIntoneI
pIfelow
Reran!hwITIIhMb
3060
MMUNIN
Becd= 8 Codfiedw 123
Secdw 8 Vatubm o. t
Plymouth TowneSquee 33 64
Houdox RdwMHWM 154
SmUKed Sib Homawmahip 5
Fird Time Homftw Pt wen 43
Noavr*M Hamowmwft 2 1
Mmoofit ftedd No@& RLMM 3
Sdolidd VV!. 20*: 1n.4,''.- M
NOMMAAFFOWAUXBOR9 F
Pbums Reoenm Book for 46
Mdd-Fmqy RdmMHWA=
sedWs a Now c=000dim
NWA
153
64 17 2
IT. 2
AM
SOMW. PWMOWb BRA
Summary of IMA Ymdkg Resources
POWME Amewd NuMbIrdfudis
Commmily Dmbpniat Mock Ono 2,418,833 287
BNowd servia Do@& 6,700.000 97
HRA Ta IA*7 (wdtmtm nowt mks*) 300.O00
Mod= 8 ftwhn 22!qdg Rene m SCAN I
TOTAL- m "tk.: w 3060
I
2. Is Pbomoth eacluding low and modaafo income houft U~ soaft and
dowelopronst regulation?
Wbile it may be disputed wbMw or not zwft and development regulations artificially drive
up the oust of land, it is difficult to deny Wx am regulations increase the cost of a housing
unit. The ea, - to wbkb they internee the cost, however, has to been determined.
A Boit publisbed by the Canter for Urban and Regional Affairs, jisUBL ifdiGm 10"
Bxclusioearv_Zoeiea_ De Facto or De lute, compam the local land use regulations and
davelopment fere of several developing suburban communities in the Twin Cities Including
Plymouth. The report illushates that Plymouth cbagp fees that are similar to other
communities but has several land use mplations that aro more stringent — both of which can
ioaesse the we of a housing unit. Of the ten a m amides studied, Plymouth has the second
larpst minimum lot size requirement of 18,500 square feet.' Plymouth has the hugest
minimum tot width (110 foot), and the largest minimum lot area requirement for multi -family
housing (4,000 squ feet). Plymouth also has several other regulations that apply
apecitially to, or an more shioput in uses of mull -family devalopment.
The minimum lot sizes for the ten communities ramge fimn 9,000 guar feat in Edina to
22,000 square feat in Mienetod a. The lowest minimum lot width is in Shakopee with a
nquiement of sixty feet. h innetonlca is the only use of the ten communities without a
minimum lot ams requitement for multi -family housing. The Manopolitan 1985 mpg
recommends a minimum dogle-femily lot size of 6,000 to 8,000 aquas
foot, that minimum lot widths In Vaud be reduced, and that multi -family minimum floor area
requirements be reduced or eliminated.
Tho zoning requirements listed in the uport aro only the requires for the •std•
zosiog diatela in the City. Then me four additional districts with a minimum lot size as low
as 5,000 sgeane feat for each unit in a two-family home. However, 74 percent of the total
land in the City (lend within the MUSA and zoned mWestial) is guided IA 1 with a minimum
lot size of 18,500 squaw feat.
The City does provide some ways that a development can ars emft to seduce the minimum
lot area per dwelling unit in residence districts R-2, R-3, and Rte. These ctiteda isclu le the
following:
encess undetgreund paddn8 spaces are added,
the site is adjacent to a business or industrial use zona,
the site is adjacent to an artatial street with daily hstTe volume greeter than 10,000
vehicles,
the residence Is taller than three stories,
a dilapidated Mucpue is razed, and/or
the development contains unify affordable to low and modemse income families.
In addition, the City allows for planned unit developments MM) which can utilize flexibility
in the density of development. PUDs can also am bonus points that allow for iamased
densities above the guide plan limits. Bonus points are awarded for PUDs meatisg any of the
following cdwb: the project six is larger than forty acres, the pwjoct provides a significant
percentage of low and moderate income housing, the project provides a variety of housing
types, and/or the Fvojax demonstrates affirmative design in the provision of open apace. City
staff estimate that abwtt half of rho residential developments they review are PUDs.
e The report a ui ft lied 15,000 dqo that d do MW IN dee. AIIIMO reser tm ft dhWW in the CIW
Blow hr led that ere 13,000 Sq=* fiat rad emdbr, the breed mbhm foe dee tequbW in a zmisa dhWd b
18.500 genre feet.
There are several zoning and development regulations that can add to the coat of housing that
are not required in the city of Plymouth. Plymouth has no minimum Mor area requirement,
does not require certain constructiontion maserials be used, has no ordinances governing historic
preservation of housing units, and no gauge requitement for single family hooses. In
addition, City zoning allms for manufactured or mobile homes that have permanent
foundations.
Barrielm to Iferd Bumd do Contra of do Cb
In addition to tress regulatory rapirmmots, these are several other fomes that affect the cod
of housing but = beyond the immediate control of the City.
1. The property in system io Mitmoscia creates disincentives for the production of affordable
housing.
Localities rely on property taxes for revenue. To avoid raising property taxa;, which h
politically unpopular, localities hook to alternative sources of revenue. Fan and
assessments are two areas tint localities can use to iocrease revenue without Maung
Individual taxes.
Dotal rolisooe on property taxes for revenue crates an incentive for localities to
eaoounge higher value property a a masa; of maximizing revaoue.
The in no for non -hid Pyr (rental per) avesages tinea to tluee-
and-a-balf time; the rate for single heally homesteaded, of owmei`ooaupied property.4
2. The 1986 income tax reforms disallowed the use of investment losses in rental housing a
a in deduction. This cheap, combined with the tax robe differential, kava fewer
meenam for private developers to lmrest In multi -family rental housing much less rental
housing tint is affordable.
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D - a large percentage of the American population kin the stage of the life
Cycle who household; have cAildreo and begin to seek mov -W haling. This fww
creates a huge demand for stogie Lmily hones Imp enough to accommodate hosilies and
in neighborhoods they perceive as suitable for mmising children. Cultinally, housing sauna
as a status symbol for Americans. Pbople reintom their social standing with the type and
price of boom in which they live. As people move through the His cycle, timer may
improve their career am and increase their income. Subsequently, tiny purcbaae
housing to redact these improvements in social standing. The private madwiplace has time
created a demand for housing in Plymouth that has drivm up housing costs.
4. Foutbeen percent (14%) of Plymouth's land is outside the MUSA which means itaan only
be developed at rural densities without public sewer and water. Of the City's reaidotially-
gulded land within the MUSA, 1,444 aceta remain vacant. Wetlands cover 29 poem of
4 Chinos Lassoo. 11% Qua for a Regiorsl Homing Filial' in the Win 0110 MdWPolitm Mar.' Ma 1994.
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Me vacant land inside the MUSA leaving a We over 1,000 acres inside dm MUSA
avaflable for mmudd development.
Tie shrinking ropply of vacant laud within the MUSA is bluely one caro of the iomeaft
land cots In the City. Tho City's Assessor's Olfm estimates that the avmp want IN in
Plymouth, without public W*wvammb, is coffady selling for 35060,000. Households
earning less dm 80 pment of the ane mediae low= wood be able to sTod very tilde
bouro If they paid the avenge price for the lot alone.
3.
A co tent Metropolitan Council policy mpliasimem the binning of jobs, flansportalmn and
housing within the metropolitan affiOn. Udmg this approach, coomnity plans d=M tows
on me types of jobs that are avalable in the oommutdty, or group of communities, and
wbedmr c not people wbo work in f m jabs an dfmd to live Is., tib ares. This policy do
encoanges iocreamed transit smvkn to promote acoeab to subutbsn jobs.
Staff have been mvkwing employment statistics as Pott of an analysis of housing needs for
Plymoth wodm who do not live in the City. To date, the nrolte bave been iomwbdve
and will m*dm aMdond sally. The following table provides ao ample of some of the
employment dm available and shows the range of eamiogs made by Pfymonm residents
compared to the earnings toads by people who work in Plynmuth. The comparison duras that
then aro diody ams join mat pay $10,000 acrd less than them aro mideots who em this
amount. Then aro, jbw jobs mat pay $50,000 and mon man then aro tmaidents who em
this amount.
Empbynnd in Pbe oath Vanes Zmpboymaw of Pbuouth Residents
rwebw CIO d
Pbma -
Jobs
Jobs d
Pbma -
Raukeb
DlRaaaes Rnml d
Tatd
PbmoW6
idw
1wWw d
Tdd Jabs d
b
5.000 2.312 2,793 261 75 105
Sd0,000 3,141 2,469 672 95 sol
10.1:.000 408 2,807 1.281 125 105
IS -20,000 3,342 31213 2,327 165 105
M25400 4,681 21893 1.785 135 105
2:-30,000 4,146 2,280 1,866 125 s5
100.35,000 308 2,667 401 95 95
35-50.000 4,712 4,369 343 135 135
M75,000 21188 3,085 897 65 115
S + 1.343 2.322 x979 45 95
TOTAL I 3SA211 28.9001 6,5211 Wool 1005
now= 1999 Casser TMwoetnum IRMO, PWIMP
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A comparison of commuting patterns sod distsoues may also show if there is a mismatch
between jobs and housing in Plymouth. If Plymouth employees commute longer distances
than Plymouth msidents it may be an Most= of minimal housing opportunities available in
the City: because people cannot afford to live in Plymouth, they nand commute longer
dismoss. k is unlmown, however, how many workers would choose to live in Plymouth K
housing cats were less. People base the decision mgoudisg ahem to live on a member of
factors aside from proidmity to employment, so some workers may choose to make a longer
commute. A second factor that may account for the distance Plymouth workers oonuoute is
the availability of employment in surrounding communities. Several communities in the arca
boo a mach smaller eaVloymont base than Plymouth (e.g. Maple Grove). Because Plymouth
hes a huge number of jabs, it will draw employees from these communities with few
employment oppoipMWN.
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in 1990, eighty percent of Plymouth eesideots who worked left Plymouth for jobs in other
pasta of tiro metropolitan area. Twenty perioent of them commuted to work in Mionespolls.
Another 10 percent worked in Whoeftim and 7 percent in Golden Valley. Hig g4bme
petceut of the people who worked in Plymouth came from msidences outside of Plymouth.
Hight paroeat lived in Minneapolis, 8 percent in Maple Grove, 7 percent in B=Myn Pack,
and 6 percent from communities throughout Wright Ccuuty.
lbs dda indicates that the commuting shed of Plymouth residents wan smaller than that of
Plymouth workers. Fifty percent of Plymouth naideots worked in eider Plymouth,
polis or Mlonetooks. By couhad, 30 percent of Plymouth workers lived in Plymouth.
Mionapolis, Maple Grove, Brooldyn Park. Mbneftlm, New Hope, sad Crystal. Six
additional communities comprised the 73 percent commuting shed of Plymouth msWems,
while 14 additional communities made up the 73 percent eommutiog shed of Plymouth
tesidems. Mble 61
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TAM,R 6t ('Anumd1m sRhsds et BssidMft Wa IMM
Nseedwak Ply=sldh
Nea6.b
Pie WdTdd
Redeeob who wait
Ctomds"
PMra=t
PWwdh 5150 200 280
Mhmopde 5.328 280 400
Mend=ks 2,68! 100 S00
Golden vsley 1.828 70 570
St Lout h* 1,674 60 630
BloomiMSIM 979 40 660
New Hops 915 30 700
WWMN 89S 30 730
Bdm Pedeie 818 39 7M
Nees d Rsdd=ee Pyb=adh
wahm
Plwad d Told
wahm
Cin
Plsemt
Pbwoulh 5.569 170 170
Mhmespolb 2,678 80 230
Morison" 2.530 80 330
wooklyoPdk 2,181 70 400
Mismoosloe 1,225 40 440
New Hope 1.113 30 470
Ceysld 1,097 30 500
SR Looe Pink 858 30 530
Bmddyn Ceder 741 20 530
Com Rapids 666 20 570
Chs wM 663 20 600
Bd= Plidris 641 20 610
Gold= Vdey 660 20 630
St Pled M 20 650
ombslon 569 20 670
Bees 503 20 690
Hapidw 439 10 700
Itabbbodde 439 10 710
Namd 373 10 730
Coeeoas 341 10 740
Fridley 315 is 75%
3o : 199u Cetus ltaeapaeedon PI=ofo8 tWJMP
In 1990, both of the cental ddes noA c mae Plymouth nsideats as woean Wen they seat
people to Plymouth to work. Od w major ad nceivws of Plymouth nddeo% or negative
comeibulon, indnded Mioatoda (1,464 more Plymouth reaideots an sent a Minoelooka to
work than Minneftim nsideatd an Seat to Plymouth to wodo, Gohlea valley (1,180), St.
Louis Park (824) and ways MM. The largest positive cootibldon to Plymouth's
worldoloe Malo Maple Glove (2,229), Bnoldyn M (1.522), Crystal (758) and Champlin
640). l'IMe 7]
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TARE 7s Pladdre and Negathe Comtribnters
To meet the housing needs of Plymouth empknyess, a connection shout be made betwea
who Plymouth jobs pay and what boudrg costa. It is dfflWt to make this connection baouse
earrings do act translate directly into moome available to purchsse housing. The earnings of a
Bogle individual do not npg. taeat household income, which is what is used to pay for housing.
Many households have mom than one woddag member who contribute to the household
income. And some of these wodws may be part-time employees either by cboloe or bec imse
they cannot find full-time work. Some part-time employ= may deo hold nae than one part-
time arttimejob. Plymouth wosim who have low amiogs may be secondary wage -mm whose
Income is only a part of a larger household income. In addidw, aroings an not necesmity a
household's only source of income.
The fact that 83 percent of the people who worked in Plymouth in 190 commuted from other
comms could indicate that housing apportuaNia for Plymouth wailers are limited. As
mentioned befoe, h is unknown how many of Woe wodws wane moble to live in Plymoutb
because of housing costa and whether or not they would have chosen to live in Plymouth if
J housing oats were lower. A shot commute from a naft community may be acoaptabke to
some houseboWs who have chosen to ft in a community akar thio Plymouth. In 1990, 36
pesc aut of Plymouth workers lived either in Plymouth or in a community adjacent to the City.
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An addidond 16 pacelt lived in cities located next to the adjecest comanmitea. under this
expanded definition of the Plymouth counnus ty, 48 parent of the people who wodoed in
Plymouth in 1990 commuted from beyond the eum000 ft an. While net as sigoificaut w
83 patent, this figure may still suggest met hoo ft chole= for wodwa ase limited. rIMe 81
TARrM At Pleas at Radds a for Plrmeurh War lawn
Camouodey Nookwdwedass llsemthBedTdd
Agagooft to Pb=odb wadhas
1 mohdb 5,549 175
Maple ours 2,530 85
Mimshasis 1,225 45
Now slope 11113 35
Oddm Vmft 640 2s
Modica 258 0.85
Oras 199 0.65
wazda 125 0.45
8UB'MAL IIAS 36%
CM@o Nat ft Aust Cassmuddss
BrOO MPok 2,181 75
CRYdd 107 39
Bt. Lads M 850. 2.55
slopl3ss 459 1s
C.aromss 341 Is
Orsso 95 0.35
Loos Whs 0.35
Dndwm 77 0.25
Ol111TMAL s 196 F
Cumolsnve BUIM W 16.827 525
AN Oster C•aa®dtia 15jel 48
TOTAL Ply ALL COIISItI1NRl88 AM I IMI
souhoe: r9ro Casau'Morpabam Plowns pYcwBe
The pence number of Plymouth reeldens had an occupation m the ancut i%
adminisunive and managerial category. The gnateet number of Plymouth jobs was in
admimism" support end dant occupations.
The seivlaes industry pew by the largest number of jobs film 1980 to 1994. The
mamdacta ft sector saw the meat buged foussee with 4,793 jobs added.
bfam bdudsg's imponlon of toW employment declined from 40 pmm in 1980 t0 29
paseot in 1994. By conIms4 the sham of jobs in the services hldudry immured from
141P rp - h2 1980 to 22 pmeen-101994.
In 1990, reddens of Plymouth ganaelly earned mon tun people who commuted to
Plymouth to work. While this suggests due then wee a disparity between whet jobs paid
end what aeaidaae mimed, it was not to the exteut as the nmaloing group of devsbping
lubnrbs. However, this id indicative of a leek of bmWq affordable to persons who
work in Plymouth.
Ehgbty percent of Plymouth reddents who worked left Plymouth for jobs •in other perm of
the metnpohm are. Eighty-three paran of the people who worked in Plymouth camp
is
from residences outside of Plymouth. Ex g the community ofPlymouth to mdude
communities surrounding Plymouth, 48 percent of the people who worked In Plymouth
lived more than two communities beyond Plymouth's boNdeaa.
It is unknown how may people who worked In Plymouth in 1990 would have doses to
Bye in the City if housing zats were lee. They may have based their decision regarding
where to five on boors that aro unrelated to proximity to aMdoymene.
In 1990, residents of Plymouth generally earned more than persons who commuted to
work in Plymouth.
The lack of at%sdabm housing for wc*m In the City increases trait congestion, air
and noise pollution, the demand for the coamboodou of expeasdve mads and tmosh
hdlitiea, and the dV&x ty for local businesses to bine and realm workers.
4. Md
A quadon da City should ask Itself is whether or ant its housing stock mom the meads of
cormat residents and what dive residents will need as they move through do lib cycle. Also,
does lice housing dock meet the meads of persons working but ant living in Plymouth? Young
ahqiee are likely to Sve in smaller apartment amts, hmilies with childom In larger houses,
families with ddM= who have lett hone will look to smaller homes, and elderly Poo*
man back to smeller apartment units. people will also have varied baying power during thea
periods so a housing stock with a variety of prices will better meet the dif?ereat needs.
7W following queefmae aro impoirtm to consider wham plamimg to nesd housing needs:
What household types live in Plymouth?
At what emp are people In the housing lite cycle?
What income levet live In Plymouth?
Whet income levels work in Plymouth?
Whet variety of housing types is available in the Clty?
What vasidy of bmdn8 ldm is available?
What variety of housing temre is avdkbde?
Whet change can be aWacted to occur in housing meed end demand?
S. bt
Curren land prices make the development of dfordabhe housing mon expensive mad
ditficakk in Plymouth.
The City IS mmiog out of residential. lend within the 1Kettnpolivn urban Service Ams
OMA). There is especially a shortage of hard zoned for multi -family residential,
contributesJPlymouth, the City's large lot size ydensity requirementsrirements compound
theo
lacreamil Ind cam
pmblem.
The locatma of do MUSA may be outside the City's control, but the IN sin, density and
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amount zoned for aaideo<ial use are dedsioos mala by the City. Smaller lots, ma 0
dMM deaaides, and more land zoned for reaideedal use would ioaaase the aWy and
the opposamidea for dwelopment of ebb hombS.
The City's huge lot sizes imcamae the taW cost of puechasimg m d developing land for
housing, as well as ambb to to lower deaddes in.tha aagion.
lbere is a need for a community to produce Hf&cycle bou ft. As people move thaeugh
the life cycle. their hoosimg needs do mp. The age end ansposition of housdxft in the
City is d mft. Haw will the City meet de houaieg needs of its citizens in len, twemty
and thirty ymadl Will people bane to mmve.to othm commumitin when their housing seeds
dmuye? Will Plymouth be left with an ovaaWy of huge do* family hetes?
What imcemivea can the City pmvide to pagpaty owaaa to i deb affad" MM lite
cycle housing in development of their iwW? Should the Ulty aequiro that developaa
iodine Owk houaimg as a oondit on for approval of bW use dwSm, vaaianm
exoepdons, PVD f1mvlity etc.?
Thee ase ddep other levels of S! -o mat cam do to 0140 it mater to develop affoadable
bopWq in the subuaba. Ditiaeadds.in taa rata for muWdamily housing; public
Mmum. and limescimg for madng affordable timft, .and envlaoameoW mora sae
Wider the comrol of or influenced by de shoe and fedad govommeow.
To meet the honaimg needs of residents and employees in the preaeat sod fim me, a
eommumuy seals to psovida housing choice through a =W of houft type w d.pnM.
This mpha tht l?*Hc roaouacoa and pobcy foster the development of affordable liio.
cycle mss•
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L- Individual aommunitles, worWV In partnership with the Metropolitan Cound.
An investment in the hearth and vitality of the region. The Legislature established a fund
for communities to Inves4 In local economic mi talon and affordable horsing Wdetives. The
UW has three separate accounts dedicated to cleaning up polluted lend; revitalising communities
and pmnwVng efficient development and providing haling that's affordable to people living on
low and nroderete Incomes.
The new low Is cited as unique in the nation. Its benefits are dear.
cities and towns are slob for dollars ro Improve communities, and,
local unite of govenunim are in the driver's seat to guide loll planning and derision-maldng.
Canmunitles choose whether to participate and help determine how to use the
available.
9K4wr To be eligible for funding, communities, by Nov 16, must declare their Intent to
participate In the housing program.
Wwa Communities In the Twin Cities metro area.
The 9.1vable Communities Ad' is an investment in the region. it will contribute to the
economic well-being of the central cltles and sdnow Wh g suburbs. It will expand affordable and
Idesycle housing opportunities; where job growth .is highest. And, it will encourage communities
to be creative about development and redevelopment efforts and promote growth that Is more
compact and transit -oriented.
The emphasis Is on cooperation and incentives to achleve regional goals. Local units of
government are beat sulted to mane decisions about how their cities and towns will grow and
devdW. However. the law recognizes it win take partnerships and shared responsibility In the
region to contlrhue our economic suooesses.
Communities are encouraged to Include housing diversity and choice among their primary
otoctives. Priority for Infrastructure Imrestnents is given to communitles that choose to participate
and further their conmilln nt to providing housing that to affordable to low- and
families, families just startlrhg cut, single people and elderly residents These basin: principles
championed In the Linable Communities Ad are also supported by the CauhdPs
aegbrW Blushrt
You might ask, 'How will housing thers moa affordable Improve my communiy/r' Affordable
and lite-cyde haling Is an ecahomlc Investment we make In communities and their residents.
it is a commitment to young families, single people and older residents do they can afford a home
THE ADJACENT DOCUMENT WAS SUPPLIED BY AGENCY NAMED BELOW. DUI
In the community of their choice. It Is an opportunity for families living on low and moderato
Incomes and single people pursuing Irrdependenre• Couples young and old won't have to move
out of their community simply because they can't afford to In there.
Housing affordability allows people who commute to work In growing suburbs to On near their
jobs. it allows unemployed and underemployed people to have better access to developing Jobs
and livable wages. It provides a labor supply for businesses In growing cities and towns.
Closing the gap between where the jobs are --and where the people live who need Jobe -40 help
ensure continued prosperity and community stability in the Twin Cities area.
To help pay for tins programs outlined In the new law, the Legislature created the Metropolitan
Uvable Communities Fund. The fund Is made up of three accounts administered by the
Metropolitan Council.
The Local Housing Incentives Account Is at the heart of the Livable Communities Ad. It is
the L NOWWnft answer, with bipartisan and wide-ranging local supporL to one of the most
holy -debated Issues of the housing.
Communities that want to apply for any of the loans or grants avallsMe through the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Fund must first choose, to participate In the housing Incentives program
outlined In this section of the new law and must wok toward housing goals developed In
cooperation with the Council.
One source of fundh to help achieve housing goals Is tlre'Affordabte and Ute-Cycls Housing
Opporkmillas Amount,' calculated for each community scoordng to a formula presaibed in
the law. These are bceUy-gerrerated dollars cities and towns can apply toward affordable and
rde-cycle housing within their own communities.
Beginning In 1908, however, participating communities that aren't meeting housing goals.
spending their affordable and life -cycle housing opportunities amount to meet their goals I
distribute ids amount to their city or county housing authority or to the regional housing . _ .0
A aeoand source of funding Is the account itself, which is a regional fund to help participating
communities M have not met their housing goals, but are actively wodit to create affordable
and lft4yde hhmskng opportunities. This account will generate about $1 million in 1888,
500,000 in 198: and epprocdmataly $1.5 million a year beginning In 189. Funds from the
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency totaling $3.5 million and $500,000 from the Mple.-SL Paul
Family Haling Fund will Increase resources to $5.1 million for 1885. All three agencies will work
together to coordinate housing Investment in the region. Communities that receive funding must
rnatrdn these grant dollars.
The Tax Base Revitalization Account provides grants to communities to help dean up
polluted land and pave the way for economic development and job growth. Dollars available
through ids account total an estimated $8b million a year and cane from a Council levy for the
J Right cf-Way Acq,.,N-d n Loan Fund (RALF) and a portion of Lie fiscal disparities pool.
To be eligible for fresh this account, communities must d,00ee to participate in the haling
Incentives program and work toward housing goals developed In cooperation with the Council.
Grants from this aocount may be used as a local match for dean up funds of $7.8 minion from the
Departrnent of Trade and Economic Development totaling $20.5 rrdMon in resources.
The Uvabfe Carni untlln Damon Account provides bans end grants In revila6xe
neighborhoods and promote elfident development. Dollars avalleble through this account total
4.8 million a year Initially end are generated by taxes formerly levied by, and payments formerly
made to, the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District. (Beginning In 11907,1111500,01W a year will
be transferred Into the Local Housing Incentives Account.)
Donors in this account will provide opporAmitlea for metro -area comnumitles In be creative about
development and redevelopment Initiatives. To lend greater perspective to this part of the
program, the Cound will work with an advisory committee to ad critada for dstsm *V which
projects qualify for funds from this account, based on guidelines in tie gelation. Demonstration
projects eligible for f mdhng, for example, must foster more compact development, houelnp
dlwr ty and development within close prodmny to transit and other existing earvicm
To be engfbde for funds from this account communities must choose to participate in the housing
Incentives program and work toward housing goals developed In cooperation wi h the Coundl.
AQNL Qv te SPMfMM
A final component of the Livable Communities Act is the urban !homestead program, which will
give Income tax exemptions to people who purchase and move Into hones In certain
declining neighborhoods.
The law requires the Council to designate one or more 'urban revltalimtion and etab8tration
noise' by September 1995. Anyone who buys and ocanptes a home within a designated area
would moslve an hhoone tax break for up to five years. provided they do not move out of the
home, all the house, fail to comply with building codes or get convicted of a felony.
The law establishes a maxdmum exemption and subjects the exemption to certain Income limits.
SPMPPWM R04W
The Metropolitan Livable Conmhunitlea Act requires the Cowmil, beginning in 1998. to Issue an
annual d4%by-city report card on affordable and life -cycle housing In Memoir area.
The Council must also report to the Legislature on the probable development patterns In the
metro area over the next 25 years and their impact on the region. This 1s an effort that has been
underway at the Council since early 1995.
2ue4aasiaP
The Metropolitan Uvable Communities Act le a complex piece of legislation. The Council will often
look to communities to help define and interpret various aspects of the law. Direct your questions
to your Livable Communities staff team. Also, check the Metro Information Une by calling
229.8780. Or check the Twin Cities Computer Network for on -lire program IMormatlon. You can
access TCCN with your computer by dialing (812) 337-5400, or ooxtact TCCN Client Support
at.(812) 332.2101.
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METROPOLITAN LIVABLE
COMMUNITIES ACT
PURPOSE
Promote/preserve living -wage jobs in the
fully developed area.
0 Include a full range, of housing opportunities
in the developing area.
0 Preserve/rehabilitate affordable housing in
the fully developed area..
0 Promote compact and efficient development
in all communities.
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Metropolitan Livable Communities Act
6 Commitment to families
Young families, singles and elderly can
live in the community of their choice
COMMItInent to economy
Live near the workplace, with access to
jobs offering livable wages
Commitment to coo enation
Provide incentives to achieve goals
through loc Wregional partnerships
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What is Affordable Housing?
Housing is, !"affordable" if it costs
no more than 30 percent of a
fa nily's income.
Ownership: 80% of median
Approximately $41,000)
4115,000 home in 1994
Rental: 50% of median
Approximately $20,000)
500 per month in. 1990
What is Life -Cycle Housing?
e - Variety of housing types and cost
Meets people's changing needs
and preferences as incomes, lives
and circumstances change
Resources to communities for:
Affordable and life -cycle housing
Clean up of polluted sites for
business and jobs
New development linking
housing, jobs and transportation
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Local Housing Incentives.
Account
1 milUon available in 1996 to
create affordable and life -cycle
housing
By 19989 $1.5 million annually
for affordable and life -cycle
housing
Livable Communities.
Demonstration Account
4.6nullion to revitalize
neighborhoods m 1996
4.1 million annually beginning
m'1997
Compact, efficient development
close to transit with housing
variety and jobs
Tarr Base Revitalization
Account
6S million available annnaUy to
clean up polluted sites
Increased economidevelopment
and jobs for residents
How to Participate
Meet with Council team to develop
affordable housing goals and agreements
By November 15, 1995 citie-s .adopt a
resolution to participate
Adopt housing agreements by
December 8, 1995 .
Council adopts regional housing
agreements by January 15,1996
Develop action plan by June 30,19%
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Communities'. Options Under
LCA=LHIP
1) Participate and adopt goals
Access to'dollarss to improve
community
Local control and decision=
makeg
Streamline planning
requirements
Communities' Options Under
LCA -CHIP
2) Don't participate
No access to LCA funds or DIED
polluted sites funds
City by city report card to
legislate on participation and
Progress
Regional investments
Regional and public expectations
Next Steps
Contact with Council team
August forum with AMM
September staff forum
Resolution by. November 15, 1"S
Adopt goals by December 8,1995
Council adopts goals by January 15, 1996
Action plan by June 30, 1996
DRAFT
23-95
THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL'S
DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR A HOUSING AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH
AND THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
This agreement an fudrre housing activities and dfarts in Plymouth a pummut to the Elm Gads dusty
pla ang Vgpct, of which Pb=m& a a pmtwwas t. Elements of the wamsemt are based an Plymouth's
amrent housing sitnmioo, its famastad growth, and compaisaos of Plymouth m& oda neighboring suburbs
northwest of MimmespdW and with a1163 developing acmmtmida in the ragiom
To meet the housing mods of its awant and fud re reams, the City of Plymouth will make its best efforts
to ioaease the availability of effardable and lif"wb housing ad meumain tha levd addiv mty of housing
type dm* present in the community. However, relative to the diversity, tenure, deosit ad oast of housing
devdoped in Plymouth. the City does not produce housing, nor does it control the housing mucks$ in
Plymouth. it coq, however, influence hown productiom and as promvdy work to achieve its goals
through its use of ol7lcid controls, public service requiremxats, local approvals p mccu aced the use of
available housing assamme programs.
OBJEMVES
Purwant to these coda, the City agrees to the following objectives:
1. Affordability.
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A. The Mdropohtam Camed will work with comm undies to distribute available progrmnmatie
resmom to complement private sector efforts to produce and preserve affordable housing.
Rend Units. Bdwesn 1996 and 2010, the city will work toward expanding the
share of its rental housing affafdable to low and moderate income families.
Plymoulb will work to male 35 peroent of its renal basing affordable to families
earning no more then 50 percent of the regkmd median imams (cep to $25,500 in
1995). In addition, a sgpifcaut partum of these mw rental units shadd be
affordable to vay low income households, that is, those at 30 percent of the regional
Me" income.
The enpansw oof affordable rental housing may be accomplished through mw
conat ucb m, afttiomd section 8 wasting home aadfiates or vouchers, or other
creative efforts by the City to male existing rental housing in Plymouth more
affordable. The moot re6oamimg of a City revenue bond program assoctatad with
an spmtm at complex in cwhange for a guareasm of affordable rem levels within
the complex, is an example local efforts that on increase the numbs of dkrdsble
units without building new ams.
These efforts to increase affordable rental housing will help fall the affordable rental
homing gap of over 400 units dist exists for Ply ouch according to the
The Northwest of Mumespoln Planning Senor imchWes Broddyn Curter. B wkb m Park Champlin. Crystal.
Maple Owe, lk d me I.dw New Hope, Osaw, Plymamh and Robbinsdek.
Coplanchonsive Housing Affadability Strategy (CK4S) data FVPMW by HUD,
and set forth in the City HRA's Consolidated PIM
Owner Occupied. In 1994, only 42 percent of Plymouth's homesteaded housing
was valued ,dS115.000orless. This isincontrast to6ft,
arva suburbs and 77 paeent for all communities; in the Noithwed Minneapolis
pbaningsector.
Between 1996 and 2010. Plymouth will, as the new boven merloat permits, wok to
increase We percent of its homesteaded pqpadn valued at or below SI 15,000 in
1994 dollars in an effort to move Wad a Wd more like That aporkocod by other
developing suburbs m Its planning BMW
Plymouth will do what it can to influencia housing costs rocopizips that since 1991
only appoximately 40 percent of new construction ownership housing in the aim
bas sold for Sl 15.000 or low a level affordable to households at alwroximetely 30
percent Of regional medico we=.
Because land costs in Plyanuth realm smale-builY detached homes at this cost
almost impossible to develop. most of the new affordable ownership units will be
attached housing. i.e.. Wwnhomes and condominiums built at higher density to
reduce per unit costs.
In addition, an impatent demos of the City's affordable ownership homing efforts
will be to encourage retention of its osisting supply of Affixftle housing Valued
below 5115.000 in 1994 a this housing will be impossible to replace.
B. The City will strive to integrate more affordable booing damebout own* dovtWW
areas and in area yet to be developed. Efforts will be made to not concentrate affordable
homing units in only a few area within the city.
Density.
A. Multifamily dcivdopent. Plymouth will parnit and pooM 0 irraeaE in the density of
vultifimaily housing drnlopod in the city. ft will employ its local controls to achieve an
average nwkffm* density of at meet 11 units per scre for am multifamily development in
the city bovecal996and 2010. This target density is consistent with multifamily housing
densities in developing on suburbs.
Pursuant to this pal of increasing multifamily density, the city may pursue adoption of a
mioimas density standard for multifamily development.
B. Single family detached. Plymouth will merease the: density of new single family detachad
housing in the city as lend developed for new single family homes between 1996 and 2010
Will be developed at a gross density of 2.5 units per on or greater.
Dbrorsity.
Though capanded dnvoification of its housing stock is no the City's top priority. given its current
housing diversi y that finds 39 percent of its housing =& a nenosingla family detschad it
recognizes that the am construction housing roarliat and inasairg lifrocycla houstp.- demands may
mea contWoddrakrncdofmuWfamilyhousing. capeciallyWwahomes and condominiums. For
the period 1996 through 2010, the city will malas avary eff rt to maintain the non.single family
demebed share of its housing as at least 34 patent of its housing stodc, the level of diversifmdm
found in developing suburbs and suburbs m Plym%Ws geographic area. If necessary to
1 accommodate this divasifieation, Plymouth will malas lend use and/or zoning changes to amore that
there is enough land for continued multifamily Lousing development.
4. OwnerHtenta Mix.
Though the City c amot directly control the tamra of hosing built in the community, through its land
use controls, approvals poem and pwbqW= m hams programs it can iobmw
and facilitate the development of cental housing. Significant rental housing, 29 peroent of all units,
does exist in Plymouth, hovravar auuch of it is ant affordable to low and moderate iaooma
households. For the period 1996 through 2010, the City astablishes as a target goal that a minimum
of 25;anent ofunits added to the City's housing stock be rental housing.
ACTION IN SU?POKr OF OWEMVES
1. The City will revise the housing element of its comprehensive pin in a mama consistent with
guidelines being dratted by the Mdgwhtm Council. Thio mendon will be eompb ad within six
months of the adoption of the guidelines.
In its boning dement, Plymouth will address the housing issues act forth in this agrament.
2. The City will ase and will enoouroge developers to use available state ad faderal housing assisteoa,
produdios and rdobilitation proSmnL The City will actively seek out and participate in the
programs of public sector providers and private lenders, as wall as those of nosVo& and for-profit
providers and developers to provide rental sari stance, home ownership and housing rehabilitation
all m t mitiaa for low and moderawineome households. If seeded, the City will supplement such
efforts with local sources such as CDBG funds and/or its HRA.
3. The City will animus its m -going diabgae with davdopa% builders and cozens about the impect
and iatbcnoe of local send use controls and public sexvice mquiremesta on the cost of sew housing
devalapment Theso bed controls and raquiressents include such hems as local land use regulation,
mvirosnsenW controls, park dedication, argime ring standards and the local approval process
Through surveys, meetings, ordinama review and roesaroioadaq the city will continue these efforts.
4. Plymouth will coo.' :.a, and as possible, given funding limitations, expend, their rousse nam cute
program as part of Plymouth Mdmlmk. Additionally, the City will work with the cities of Brooklyn
Park and Maple Grove to develop transit savior hiking people end jobs across the throe cities.
apoe020s.py
APPENDIX TO PLYMOUTH HOUSING AGREEMENT
Current need$ and fares wd growth indicate a aigmfwm need for the developumm of atYotdable lifemcyale
11000g m Plym u& -W"7& housing" refers to the availability of bossing for people at all stages of
dWr livm rental. owners* attach4 detached ad at a range of 6fiereet coats. Cornmtmitip with a wide
variety of dousing type nod prim are in a good Position to meet paoples chmWM needs as their moonWhouseholdsimandeiramulsocmdlemga.
Hang is cooddabre" ed -dk& if 11 meaTe no mono them 30 percent of a housdwld's income.' In this
context. it refers to housing that is affordable to very low income (leas them 30 percent of mediem)..low
income (30 to 50 peraeot of madiem)..and moderate income (50 to g0 peroaht 0f median) housdwada. In 1995
these income levels and the amocwW affordable bmnmg casts are the following.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN 19"
Median Family Income - SS11;000
INS A$pozAORd Aprv.AQai Ap APpsAaIAdOAot19 -9 hTalUdtCbd t TodUeaIwd
VOYLMSIAM 735 sm NA NA NAdd3
low 025.500 1225 am 66Aoo $69m 9606040 963.900pOJ01d3Qq
31a0rde$10,ap0
5Oa0lidttQq
1941 91420 3112AN $114000 8103.000 109,000
bomb-usen
grim
2651 1,275 164000 $114000 131400 160,000
COMM
TOW eat includes base rent or mortgage prmdpal, Ong for 30 yeas, and taxes and munnoe of
S150Vmo. m a mortgage has than S100,000 or 52OQ mo.
lois ddmt m of affmi ility ead da fallowing income chm fim m defimu os are from the Dgwbneat of Hearing and Ud m Dcwlopmmt (=b
ARordabUtty and Current Needs
Than sue a substantial numbw of law and vay low imooma homsdW& in the dry and vay few aQaddde
housing units. The 1990 Ccroprelimsive Homing ARardability Strategy (CHAS) databooh for Plymouth
shown the member of vay low and low' households in the city and the number of housing units
addable to than.
RENTING HOUSEHOLDS
1990 CHAS Databook
Household Sire
Number
of
Households
Unit Sire
Pat
Bedrooms)
Nimber of
Affordable
Units Werem
Very Low Income Reuters
1-2 Parson 172 Oar 1 14 158
3.4 Fames (Smd l Family) 240 2 79 161
S+ Persons (Ldrgd Fan*) 18 3+ 57 39)
Total 430 150 280
Low income Reuten
1-2 Pasons 221 Oar 1 106 115
3.4 Parons (Small Family) 122 2 64 58
5+ Paraos (Large Fanny) 13 3+ 42 29)
T09d 356 212 144
Total Low end Very Low Reuters
1-2 Paras 393 Oar 1 120 273
3.4 Pasmn (Smell Family) 362 2 143 219
5+ Paroms (Ldrgd Family) 31 3+ 99 68)
Tota! 786 362 424
OWNING HOUSEHOLDS
1990 CHAS Databook
The actual shactfall of affordable units is even greater then shown m these tables. Many of the housing units
affordable to low ad very low income houublda sm ooarpied by houuholds with highs incomes. As a
resek than were a total of 1.127 bw %-id very low' households m Plymouth paying mors than 30
peroent of their income for bousing in 1990.
In tams ON* vduc of hommtesded properties in Plymorth, in 1994 only 42 percent of its units wan valued
at $1.15.000 err leu. This is in comparison to a figum of 69 percent for davelopiug sabmbs in Intel, and 77
percent for the suburbs m the nathweat Minneapolis planning sector.
The affordability of owmsbip housing in Plymouth is a challenge for the City. Iaaeaaiog empleyment
growth coupled with m=W malities that aro mummog land and housmS costs m Plymouth mane the
pmsavatmo sod the "niW*ova" of axi m* affordable units to sea yamgw haod o h e primary means
of meding the City's affordable housing gods.
Housing Diversity and Density
Pbuoulb has a diversity of housing that is somewhat greater tom that of the developing communities as a
whole that of its geographic arss. In 1993, Plymouth had 39 patent of dwir housing that was other ohm
single family dduhod. This wad highs than do lov:l of dl dcvftmg suburbs (33 ponce-) and that of
cities in the northwest of Minneapolis suburban poummg sector (34 peccant). In 1990.29 Pao" of the
horsing in Phmodh was metal compamd to 24 pot ante far dl devebping communities and 28 percent
for tha northwed Minneapolis suburban planning sdcror.
The density of mdtihu* housing impede the cost of housing and the eff'i am: provision of public
inBrast":time. Cunally Plymouth hes relatively low multifamily housing density at sight unity ler acre.
This is over than the l 1 edits per atm for developing suburbs and suburbs in the noMaest Mb=gW is
suburban planning sector.
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Number of Number of Affordable
Housebolde Units Difference
Vary Loa booms
Owners
322 64 238
Low Inoomo Owners 388 261 127
Total Low and Vay
Law Income Owens
710 323 38S
The actual shactfall of affordable units is even greater then shown m these tables. Many of the housing units
affordable to low ad very low income houublda sm ooarpied by houuholds with highs incomes. As a
resek than were a total of 1.127 bw %-id very low' households m Plymouth paying mors than 30
peroent of their income for bousing in 1990.
In tams ON* vduc of hommtesded properties in Plymorth, in 1994 only 42 percent of its units wan valued
at $1.15.000 err leu. This is in comparison to a figum of 69 percent for davelopiug sabmbs in Intel, and 77
percent for the suburbs m the nathweat Minneapolis planning sector.
The affordability of owmsbip housing in Plymouth is a challenge for the City. Iaaeaaiog empleyment
growth coupled with m=W malities that aro mummog land and housmS costs m Plymouth mane the
pmsavatmo sod the "niW*ova" of axi m* affordable units to sea yamgw haod o h e primary means
of meding the City's affordable housing gods.
Housing Diversity and Density
Pbuoulb has a diversity of housing that is somewhat greater tom that of the developing communities as a
whole that of its geographic arss. In 1993, Plymouth had 39 patent of dwir housing that was other ohm
single family dduhod. This wad highs than do lov:l of dl dcvftmg suburbs (33 ponce-) and that of
cities in the northwest of Minneapolis suburban poummg sector (34 peccant). In 1990.29 Pao" of the
horsing in Phmodh was metal compamd to 24 pot ante far dl devebping communities and 28 percent
for tha northwed Minneapolis suburban planning sdcror.
The density of mdtihu* housing impede the cost of housing and the eff'i am: provision of public
inBrast":time. Cunally Plymouth hes relatively low multifamily housing density at sight unity ler acre.
This is over than the l 1 edits per atm for developing suburbs and suburbs in the noMaest Mb=gW is
suburban planning sector.
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PLYMOUTH AND COMPARISONS
Porecaated Growth
Fooploymeot and demographic trends in Plymouth will bad to the need for sigaificently more aliardable life.
cycle boomig. Growth forecasts for Plymouth at currently being reexamined and revised end may be lower
then earlierforecasted. In my cons, however. the. City will add several thousand jobs and households between
1990 and 2010. The expected nature of this growth end the aging of the xoom$ population means Plymouth
will need to add to its stack of affordable housing end maintain a divan supply of varus honing types,
both for ownership and renal.
This employment growth will include a substeutiel number of jobs with modest pay. Data included m Ike
Chmmor s Bconoxdc RfaUry and XwMng Inftladve (Jmwy 1993) shoe that 45, , - of the job
growth in the region from 1991 to 1993 was in low paying industries: such a retell trade, oaf hiriel king
plana end pasaoeVmpsir services. Pay in the law paying industries avereged $15.363 per yeer in 1994.
This level is a Wwdma* 30 patent of the now medium income; in 1994, the level defined as "very low".
it is ressomble to expect that a significant portion of tho jobs created in Plymouth will be in low paying
Industria.
Consumer choice regadimg honing type cm change as the households move through various stages end
dreumstaooa. One indicator of tie houaimg type prefared by a household is the ege of the householder.
Households headed by a person under age 30 and time age 70 end older are much mere Mely to live in
housing that is not a single family detached house than are households headed by persona between age 30 end
69.
1n addition. maeasing numbers of "empty neat" households are moving up to more expm m second or third
homes. ofbm attached toms of housing, than leading to tunes er of the single family unit they occupy to
youngerhouseholds.
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Multifamily Honing
Noo-Single Family Rental Units Density
Detached Housing of Total Units Units Per Aero
of Total Units -1993 1990 1990
Plymouth 39%. 2996 8
All Developing
communion
35% 25% 11
Northwest of 34% 28% 11
Minneapolis
Submbea Planning
saw
Porecaated Growth
Fooploymeot and demographic trends in Plymouth will bad to the need for sigaificently more aliardable life.
cycle boomig. Growth forecasts for Plymouth at currently being reexamined and revised end may be lower
then earlierforecasted. In my cons, however. the. City will add several thousand jobs and households between
1990 and 2010. The expected nature of this growth end the aging of the xoom$ population means Plymouth
will need to add to its stack of affordable housing end maintain a divan supply of varus honing types,
both for ownership and renal.
This employment growth will include a substeutiel number of jobs with modest pay. Data included m Ike
Chmmor s Bconoxdc RfaUry and XwMng Inftladve (Jmwy 1993) shoe that 45, , - of the job
growth in the region from 1991 to 1993 was in low paying industries: such a retell trade, oaf hiriel king
plana end pasaoeVmpsir services. Pay in the law paying industries avereged $15.363 per yeer in 1994.
This level is a Wwdma* 30 patent of the now medium income; in 1994, the level defined as "very low".
it is ressomble to expect that a significant portion of tho jobs created in Plymouth will be in low paying
Industria.
Consumer choice regadimg honing type cm change as the households move through various stages end
dreumstaooa. One indicator of tie houaimg type prefared by a household is the ege of the householder.
Households headed by a person under age 30 and time age 70 end older are much mere Mely to live in
housing that is not a single family detached house than are households headed by persona between age 30 end
69.
1n addition. maeasing numbers of "empty neat" households are moving up to more expm m second or third
homes. ofbm attached toms of housing, than leading to tunes er of the single family unit they occupy to
youngerhouseholds.
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TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA
HOUSEHOLDS BY HOUSING TYPE, 1990 CENSUS
The 1990 amsus counted 8.171 ddW m under the sp of 10 4viag in Plymouth. By the year 2010 they will be
m their twenties and looking for muldfemily housing as their first Ima unit.
In 1990, then was 7,341 hotmdkft beaded by a person so 45 or older or fully 40 paoett of the City's
boumbolds. As esdy as 2000 and atta * by 2010. mmy of than bouseholds wil be looking to move out of
than sm* fm* dmdwd burse and ipso dtmmdm housing. preferably m do r barna aammrmily of Plymouth.
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Mald&m4 Other owl.
Shame ramily 5+ Units Per Towshoma, dupleses,
Age Batched Building) Wass, Mobile
of Honaebsld Pagan Peraat Homes. Etc.)
Head Pereett
Leas Than 30 Yews 33% 45% 22%
3069 Yearn 70% 16% 14%
70+ Yews 53% 37% 109E
The 1990 amsus counted 8.171 ddW m under the sp of 10 4viag in Plymouth. By the year 2010 they will be
m their twenties and looking for muldfemily housing as their first Ima unit.
In 1990, then was 7,341 hotmdkft beaded by a person so 45 or older or fully 40 paoett of the City's
boumbolds. As esdy as 2000 and atta * by 2010. mmy of than bouseholds wil be looking to move out of
than sm* fm* dmdwd burse and ipso dtmmdm housing. preferably m do r barna aammrmily of Plymouth.
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Eha, Creek Housing Agreement/
Livable Communities
At[ordahulty
Ownership
Rental
Idle -Cycle
Type (Mon -single family
detached)
Owner/ renter mix
Density
Single -Family Detached
Multifamily
Summary of Goals
fcrr r nwE.1 sENCM- Rx 1 cont.
42% 67-77%
1596 3541% 3596
F;4:;
3.96 3496
5) / 75/25%
25/28)96
August 28. 1995
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1.8/ acre 1 1.9-2.4/acre 2.S/acre
8/acre 10-11/acre I1/acre
To Be Determined
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September 13, 1995
0715 Minnetonka Boulevard; Suire 212
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
6121 9 &”" FAX 924-1295 TDD 924.1297
An Equal appWWhy1ANImic6, Acf6 emp6 o,
Mr. Edward J. Goldsmith
dews nen.. Supervisor
I.C. °'""""""'" Housing and Redevelopment Authority
City of Plymouth.
wcs °pin"0' 3400 Plymouth Blvd.
a 'W",*a Now Plymouth, Mn. 55447
Wa nT'60
eau ah* ro pm Dear Ed:
Oaiix m war ftcr e
Mbm. war ftWW
VZ5 2= Enclosed is the first. monthly summary report on the T.R.A.I.L.S. Program. r„M
10- I think you71 agree that we ve made an excellent start.
We made this report to cover July 17th to August 31 st, and subsequent reports will
N „f cover calender months.
w. amore .
suhwhm raA fiM
02 If you have any questions, please call me st 924-1272.
Sinaerel
Meehan
P gram Director
0715 Minnetonka Boulevard; Suire 212
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
6121 9 &”" FAX 924-1295 TDD 924.1297
An Equal appWWhy1ANImic6, Acf6 emp6 o,
T.R.A .LL.,S
MONTHLY SUMMARY REPORT
JULY 17,1993• AUGUST 31, IM
LnWm EwdnvW and reporting forms were devdoped and implemented.
ApprordDW* 400 r WOW Of St. Louis Park and Plynwuth received TALA.I.L.S.
introduction tetter regarding the Orierna m Wo&dwps. This letter also included
a form to fill out and sand back to sign up for a Workshop
Forty-eight bousing PrddP=b was caned Up for an Orientation Workshop.
Twenty-four residents from each city signed up for the workshops.
Six WorWWP ware held in St. Louis Park and Plymouth on August 21, 22, 23.
Twany-nine housing prddpmu partidpated in wo&dwps. Eight other
PWWPAW ON up u dividual one== appannrwnts. Of the thirty -et, en t" sixteen
PuddParrts were flom Plymouth, and twenty-one were from St. Louis Park.
Thirty-four Lesko appourtnwnts have been scheduled, tiilm from Ply =dL and nineteen
ft= St. Louis Park.
Contact was established with other Corrmhmay Agences and raounxs, such as, lnt dmb
Outreach and Cm mnmity partrwrs, St. Louie Park Emergency Program ( STEP Pyramid
Mental Health Center. RELATE, F. Taylor & Associates ins. MN Suburban NAACP,
long with several other related agencies.
DATE: September S, 1995 for Housing & Redevelopment Authority Meeting
of September 21, 1995
TO: Anne Hmftrt, Bxmutive Director through Edward Gold
Supervisor
FROM: Milt Dale, housing Specialist"/%'v
SUBJECT: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program for 19%
Based on the most current information available, it appears reasonable to estimate that
the City of Plymouth will receive approximately $300,000 in CDBG haft for 1996.
However, until Congress and the President make a final determination on the 1996
budget, we will not know the exact amount. Therefore, we will proceed on the
assumption that $300,000 is the 1996 allocation and we will use that amount for the
public bearing acheduled to be held at the October 19th HRA meeting.
In preparation for the 1996 CDBG public hearing, staff mailed out questionnaires to the
following agencies and non-profit organizations:
Community Builders Suburban Alliance
Plymouth Housing Alliance Hammer Residences
Union City Mission Blim Tmuitional Housing
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners (TOCP)
Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council QMMHSC)
people Responding in Social Ministry (FRESH)
Community Aaron Suburban Hennepin (CASH)
Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association (GMDCA)
Metropolitan barfaidt Council on Affordable Housing (bUCAH)
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
City of Plymouth Park tit Recreation Department
Wesronlm Community Aaron Network (WeCau)
Training and Resources to Attain Individual, Long-term Success OMAIW)
The deadline to submit a questionnaire was September 1. The following agencies and
eonVeits submitted completed requesting the following amounts:
pack
COW S"Wee
Regvesor Regnesa
Hammer Residences, lousing for disabled 30,000
CASH, operation of Horadine 10,000
WeCan, employment services for low/moderate. income 10,000
ONDCA, day can subsidies 25,000
MUM, Section 8 Family Self Sufrency 20,000
Park & Recreation, Low Income Assistance LM
Park & Recreation, Park Construction Am
Totals 40,000 70,500
CDBG regulations limit the amount of funds allowed to be spent on "public service"
activities in any given program year. This limitation amounts to 15% of that year's
allocation plus 15% of the previous year's program income or in the case of Plymouth,
it would be approximately $46,500. Public service activities are those activities "which
are directed toward improving the community's public services and facilities, including
but not limited to those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care,
healtb, drug abuse, educntion, fair housing counseling, energy conservation, welfare,
or recreational coeds." For the 1996 program ?ear, a total of $70,500 in public service
funding has been requested or nearly $25,000 over the maximum allowed.
In reviewing the funding requests, services and programs offered by the public service
providers, all the requests appear reasonable and the programs and services provided
have considerable merit. Since the total dollar amount for all service provider requests
is approximately 35 % over our estimated allocation, one approach. would be to reduce
each funding request by that percentage. Otherwise I would recommend that the
following activities be considered for funding:
23,500
WeCan 7,500
CASH 7,500
Park & Recreation 5,000
TPJMS -L=
Totals 46400
I am suggesting a lower level of funding for 77-41LS at this time since funding would
not be needed until July 15, 1996. There is also the possibility of again fumding this
program with Section 8 reserves or from the HRA general fumd.
When reviewing the two non-public service provider requests, I would recommend
funding Hammer lcs,:lences the $30,000 requested but not the Park and Recreation
Department request for park construction funding in 1996. I feel Hammer Residences
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has a proven track record of assistance to the disabled and we bave a continued need
for this type of housing in the community. Also, hamster Residences has reotsvd
only $30,000 of CDBG funding while the HRA has provided approximately $250,000
in CDBG haft to the Park and Recreation Department since 1973.
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When considering other activities to be funded in 1996, I would suggest to continue
funding those activities that are providing improved and rehabilitated housing for
existing homeowners, that are expanding opportunities for home ownership for first
time homebuyers and that are providing new of onlable housing opportunities in
Plymouth. Our 1995 Consolidated Plan Submittal approved by the Board, emphasized
these activities. I have included a copy of the quantitative goaldprogresslumet dates
for 1995 CDBG funding, as submitted to HUD earlier this year, along with our present
progress (in held face), as follows:
Ginodhodw Cort Prmrvs&MW set Darnfor 1996 COW 14srd6rr:
Cart Lisficomrsafawas EVION attar
Homeownerft for 15 low Nuodu r of families placed into Punch ezpmded by 12/31/96
income limina homeowmali 14 100% committed 11 10/1/95
Child ars aadmnce for 10 very Number of households receivieS Puncta cgwm ed by 17/31/95
low' households a ddi 22 looses New 62% es mded k 9/1/95
Aaaidence of 80 low income Number of persons added at Funds expanded by 12/31/'93.
persons utOWeg Plymouth lust sedvides 70 in 9 moods 100% committed by 9/1/95
Parb & Rowesdoo
Utilizstim of A fords bold to Amount of funds axpmded for Funds expanded by 12/31/96
CO@dogmwFuw wdvides 100% committed by 9/1/95
Rebti3litedon of 15 do& Number of homes rebb HOOd Ptmds aspooded by 12/31/961fwmbbums13by9/1/95 100% ezvmm kff 911/95
CDBG funded activities for 1995 include the following:
AQ Elands
Aril * ars gjMAN
1. Rehabilitation Grant/Loan program
a Admimditation of Activity 17,121 13,646
b. Grantsi7oans to homeowners A= I= .
Subtotal 102.121 96,904
2. Child Care Assistance 31,108 19,151
3. Trust Time Homebuyer Loan & Development Program
a. Administration of Activity 16,993 8,975
b. Land Acquisition & Grants/Loons IM, QQQ 135,000
Subtotal 170,993 143,975
4. Plymouth Park & Recreation, One -on -One Assistance 2,250 2,250
S. Plymouth Park & Recreation, Accessibility 2,750 2,750
6. Community Builders 40,598 37,154
7. Lakeview Commons 60,950 49,316
S. Administration 37.531 16.464
Totals 448,301 3671964
Note: The above listing includes the 1995 allocation of $323,000 plus prior year balances
and program low= of $125,301.
Anticipating $300,000 in total CDBG funding for 1996, coupled with an estimated
5,000 in program income, my recommendation would be that funding be allocated by
activity as follows:
1. Public service providers (Set page 2Jbr WAS) 46,500
2. Hammer Residences 30;000
3. Housing Rehabilitation Grant/ ,oans
a. Administration of Activity 18,000
b. Gra =loans to homeowners LIM
Subtotal 103,000
4. Affordable Housing Assistance 8t. Development Program
a. Administration of Activity 6,000
b. Housing Assistance 67M
Subtotal 73,500
S. Administration 52.QQQ
Total 305,000
The Affordable Housing Assistance & Development Program would. replace the current
First Time Homebuyer Program that is expected to lose its eligibility on October 1,
1995. These funds would be available to provide assistance to affordable housing
proposals in Plymouth, including any activities initiated by the HRA:
Should additional CDBG funding be made available, I would recommend that the
additional funds be allocated to the Affordable Housing d: Development Program.
Based upon the discussion at the Board meeting, staff will prepare the final
recommendation for the public hearing on October 19, 1995.
I reotumend that the Board review these proposed uses for 1996 CDBG thuds and
discuss any concerns or comments they may have regarding these proposals at the
September 21, 1995 Board meeting.
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