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1 • Oppose measures that would mandate that cities provide sufficient regulatory relief to 2 ensure that a specific percentage of units in new housing developments are affordable at 3 particular income pricing without direct subsidy or cross - subsidies or that cities must 4 adopt accessory dwelling unit ordinances. 5 • Refrain from restricting, eliminating, or proscribing local authority to adopt and carry 6 out land use plans, activities, and regulations. 7 8 LE -9. Community Land Trusts (AH) 9 10 Issue: The steeply increasing price of land available for housing development 11 is a growing concern throughout the state. Action is needed to create more permanently 12 affordable owner- occupied housing by maximizing the cost - effectiveness of taxpayer 13 investments. MHFA had one -time authority to assist cities to fund the establishment of 14 community land trusts for affordable housing. 15 16 Response: The 2002 Legislature should support a land trust capacity - building 17 program and provide capital start -up funds so that community land trusts can offer gap 18 financing, interest -rate write- downs, predevelopment financing, and financial underwriting 19 costs. 20 21 LE -l0. Municipal Telecommunications Authority (AH) 22 23 Issue: Cities must have the authority and the tools to put in place the necessary 24 infrastructure, educational resources, applications, and skill -sets to become connected 25 communities. Several court decisions demonstrate that provisions of the 1996 federal 26 Telecommunications Act requiring removal of barriers to entry for "any entity" apply directly to 27 cities' interest in gaining clear authority to create municipal telecommunications utilities in order 28 to provide advanced services at the local level. 29 30 Response: The Legislature and state agencies must act to make it possible for cities 31 to provide affordable access to advanced telecommunications and information services by: 32 33 • Allowing a city to become a telecommunications and information service provider upon 34 approval of the city council and to extend services beyond city cooperate boundaries 35 upon authorization of the Municipal Public Utilities Commission. 36 • Defining a strategic leadership role for cities by eliminating barriers to municipal entry. 37 • Supporting efforts by cities to bring advanced services to local residents and businesses, 38 and to encourage collaboration among communities and institutions to expand 39 education, health care, and economic opportunities at the Local and regional level. 40 • Allowing cities and municipal utilities to join with other entities, such as cooperative 41 associations, investor -owned utilities, or other municipal utilities or power agencies, to 42 provide telecommunications and information service. 43 44 45 12