10-43 - 08-17 - continue participation - housing incentives - Livable communities act - 2010 - 2020Resolution 10-43
August 17, 2010
Member Shaffer introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN THE LOCAL
HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM UNDER THE METROPOLITAN
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT: CALENDAR YEARS 2010 - 2020
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes sections
473.25 to 473.255) establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which is intended
to address housing and other development issues facing the metropolitan area defined by
Minnesota Statutes section 473.121, and;
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base
Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account, the Local
Housing Incentive Account and the Inclusionary Housing Account, is intended to provide
certain funding and other assistance to metropolitan -area municipalities, and;
WHEREAS, a metropolitan -area municipality is not eligible to receive grants or loans
under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund or eligible to receive certain polluted
sites cleanup funding from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic
Development unless the municipality is participating in the Local Housing Incentives
Account Program under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254, and;
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan
Council to negotiate with each municipality to establish affordable and life -cycle housing
goals for that municipality that are consistent with and promote the policies of the
Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide, and;
WHEREAS, previously negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for
municipalities participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program expire in
2010, and;
WHEREAS, a metropolitan -area municipality can participate in the Local Housing
Incentives Account Program under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 if: (a) the
municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program; (b) the
Metropolitan Council and the municipality successfully negotiate new affordable and life-
cycle housing goals for the municipality; (c) the Metropolitan Council adopts by resolution
the new negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the municipality; and (d) the
municipality establishes it has spent or will spend or distribute to the Local Housing
Incentives Account the required Affordable and Life -Cycle Housing Opportunities Amount
(ALHOA) for each year the municipality participates in the Local Housing Incentives
Account Program;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Golden Valley City Council:
1. Elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act for calendar years 2011 through 2020.
Resolution 10-43 - Continued
August 17, 2010
2. Agrees to the following affordable and life -cycle housing goals for calendar years
2011 through 2020:
Affordable Housing Goals Ran a
Life -C cle Housing Goals Range
68-104
1 100-200
3. Will prepare and submit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it
plans to take to meet its established housing goals.
F
Linda R. Loomis, Mayor
ATTEST:
Susan M. Virnig, City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Member Scanlon
upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Loomis, Pentel,
Scanlon and Shaffer; and the following was absent: Freiberg, and the following voted
against the same: none, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and
adopted, signed by the Mayor and her signature attested by the City Clerk.