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COUNOL RESOLUTION
July 28, 2010
No. 10-11
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEARS 2011 THROUGH 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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE CITY OF FALCON
HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA:
1. Elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act for calendar years 2011 through 2020.
2. Agrees to the following affordable and life-cycle housing goals for calendar years 2011
through 2020:
3. Will prepare and submit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it plans
to take to meet its established housing goals.
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Moved by: (;0 SII r1e Approved by:' ~W~
eter Lindstrom, Mayor
July 28, 2010
LINDSTROM In Favor Attested by: ~
GOSLINE ustin Miller
HARRIS o Against
City Administrator
LONG July 28, 2010
MERCER-TAYLOR ~Se.-tt-