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Lino Lakes 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update Planning & Zoning Board re: Housing Plan 2 August 9, 2017 The following table shows the number of units needed from 2021-2030 by affordability level. Affordable Housing Unit Needs for Lino Lakes, 2021- 2030 Threshold # Housing Units At or below 30% AMI 284 31 to 50% AMI 197 51 to 80% AMI 34 Total Units 515 To accommodate its share of the region’s affordable housing need, the City is asked to demonstrate that it has guided residential land at densities sufficient to create opportunities for construction of affordable housing. For the 2040 plan updates, the Metropolitan Council has provided two options: Option 1: Guide sufficient land at minimum residential densities of 8 units/acre to support the total allocation of affordable housing needs (in Lino Lakes’ case, 515 units or 64 acres.) Option 2: Guide sufficient land at minimum densities of: • 12 units/acre to support the allocation of affordable units at less than 50% AMI (481 units or 40 acres) AND • 6 units/acre to support the allocation of affordable units at 51-80% AMI (34 units or 5.66 acres) For the 2030 plan, all land guided for residential development at net densities of 6 units/acre was considered to be available for affordable housing. The new guideline increases the density to 8 units/acre (Option 1) but allows flexibility if communities plan for some density higher than the minimum (Option 2.) Housing Data and Trends—The Metropolitan Council collects data on housing needs in the region and provides data required to complete local comprehensive plans. Two documents are attached. The first, the “Existing Housing Assessment”, contains the minimum data required in the Housing Assessment portion of Lino Lakes’ plan. The second, the “Community Profile” for housing, provides some additional data that the City may use to help identify its housing needs. Issues for Housing Plan Update—We have identified the following issues for the update of the Housing Plan. • One of the goals for the Comprehensive Plan update is to streamline the document, make it more user friendly, and emphasize graphics and bullet points rather than large blocks of text. The housing chapter presents some good opportunities to do so. • The current plan overlaps in some ways with the land use plan, such as repeating goals and policies. We can eliminate some of the redundancy. • The current plan’s housing assessment data compares Lino Lakes with three nearby communities (Blaine, Hugo and Forest Lake) and also compares the western and eastern parts of Lino Lakes with each other. We should consider whether these comparisons are valuable and whether they should be continued in the plan update. It may be desirable to compare the city information with