15-03 - 07-14 - Redevelopment Plan Winnetka and Medicine Lake Resolution 15-3 July 14, 2015
Commissioner Harris introduced the following and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
IN AND FOR THE CITY OF GOLDEN VALLEY, HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ADOPTING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE
WINNETKA AND MEDICINE LAKE ROAD PROJECT AREA
BE IT RESOLVED by Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and for the City of
Golden Valley, Minnesota (the "Authority"), as follows:
1. Project Plan Review. The Authority has reviewed the Redevelopment Plan (the
"Project Plan") for the Winnetka and Medicine Lake Road Redevelopment Project Area (the
"Redevelopment Project") attached hereto.
2. Adoption. The Project Plan is hereby adopted, subject to approval by the Planning
Commission and the City Council as provided in Section 4, based on the findings in Section
3 hereof.
3. Findings for Approval of Project Plan. The Authority hereby makes the following
findings:
3.01. The Project Plan proposes that the Authority undertake certain redevelopment
activities for the purpose of encouraging redevelopment of properties in the Redevelopment
Project.
3.02. The land in the Redevelopment Project would not be made available for
development without the financial aid to be sought since private developers could not
economically develop the Redevelopment Project without the proposed redevelopment
activities.
3.03. The Project Plan will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the needs of
the City as a whole, for the redevelopment of the District by private enterprise. The
redevelopment activities contemplated in the Project Plan would help to retard blight in the
Redevelopment Project and provide an increase in employment and housing opportunities
in the City and enhance the tax base of the City and overlapping taxing jurisdictions.
3.04. The redevelopment activities proposed by the Project Plan conform to the
general plan for the development or redevelopment of the City as a whole. The
redevelopment activities are compatible with the City's zoning ordinances and other related
regulations and encourage efficient use of existing infrastructure as set forth in the City's
Land Use Plan.
3.05. The Project Plan provides an outline for the development or redevelopment of
the area and is sufficiently complete to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as
to appropriate land uses and to indicate general land uses and general standards of
development or redevelopment.
Resolution 15-3 - Continued July 14, 2015
4. Transmittal. The Authority does hereby transmit the Project Plan to the Golden
Valley Planning Commission to affirm the findings of the Authority in Section 3.04, and to
Golden Valley City Council for approval after the same has been considered by the Council
subsequent to a public hearing to be held in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter
469.
5. Filing. Following approval by the City Council, the Director is hereby authorized
and directed to file the Project Plan with the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of
Revenue and the Office of the State Auditor pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section
469.175, subdivision 4a.
Steven T. Schmidgall, Chair
ATTEST:
W
arc Wevinski, As tant HRA Director
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Commissioner
Clausen, upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Schmidgall,
Clausen, Fonnest, Harris and Snope and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted, signed by the Chair and
his signature attested by the Assistant HRA Director.