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COUNCIL RESOLUTION
July 13, 2011
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A RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING AN
APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City of Falcon Heights is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's
Housing Incentives Program for 2011 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is
therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets the
Demonstration Account's purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the
purposes of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the
Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure
adequate project administration; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations
as stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant
application to be submitted on July 15, 2011; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants
are intended to fund projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or
prototypes for development or redevelopment projects elsewhere in the region, and
therefore represents that the proposed project or key components of the proposed project
can be replicated in other metropolitan -area communities; and
WHEREAS, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and
the Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant
finds only to eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of
Demonstration Account grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for
the proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
?. Finds that the project component(s) for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funding is sought:
(a) Will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonably foreseeable future; and
(b) Will occur within two years after a grant award only if Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that the City is undertaking reasonable and good faith efforts to procure
funding for the project component for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funding is sought but has not yet been able to find or secure from other sources
funding that is necessary for project component completion within two years and states
that this representation is based on the following reasons and supporting facts:
List reasons and supporting facts here:
(a) The project site, Hermes Floral Company, was identified in the City's 2030
Comprehensive Plan (approved 2008) as a candidate for multi- family
residential /mixed use redevelopment in order to meet the City's housing goals.
(b) The Hennes property was one of four rezoned in August 2010 to allow mixed use
multi- family residential use at densities up to 40 units per acre in Falcon Heights,
implementing the comprehensive plan. The property was not then for sale.
(c) The City first learned on June 22, 2011, that the Hermes property would become
available for sale. The cooperation of the owner was enlisted on June 29, 2011, in
investigating the feasibility of redevelopment options for the Hermes property.
(d) Redevelopment of the Hermes site to provide significant new housing not only
fits the types of projects supported by the Livable Communities Demonstration
Account but is key to the vision articulated in the Falcon Heights Comprehensive
Plan.
(e) The imminence of the deadline for Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funding and the importance of this development opportunity prompted initiation
of this grant application before other sources of funding could be found or
secured.
4. Authorizes its City Administrator to submit on behalf of the City an application for
Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant funds for the
project component(s) identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as
may be necessary to implement the project on behalf of the City.
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Approved by:•
Peter Lindstrom, Mayor
July 13, 2011
Attested by: a�lze
ustin Miller
City Administrator
July B. 2011