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—Page 3 Planning and Zoning Commission November 7, 1979 There was.a discussion the data available was from the 1970 census. Mr. McLean felt this threw the whole project out of prospective. The whole character of our community has changed since 1970. Mr. Locke said this was the only data available.. This was kept in mind during the prepartion of this material for this evening. Mr. Short said that:if it seems that the conclusions he as reached are in error because of out dated census figures he will try .to use'IRS tax returns salary figures. He did not feel this would affect the Plan. Mr. McLean noted the 20% of the homes were built before 1940 based.on 1970 census data. He felt this was not realistic today. Mr. Locke said some of the finds are based on poor or limited data. ,Mr. McLean felt each statement such as above should be prefaced because findings are outdated. Mr. Short went through the Key Findings from the data he prepared. The pre- dominate housing is single family homes. Mr. Locke pointed out the difficu-, lities some one wouldlhave looking for multi -family housing. The second item is how much of the housing is rental as opposed to owner occupied. The 1970 data shows 87% owner occupied. It would be difficult to show a different percentage today. Mr. Short asked the Board if someone were looking for 1_, rental housing in Lino Lakes what would the Board think of the stock avail- able? Mr. McLean said "terrible", and explained in order to have rental property you need sewers (Municipal). Mr. Short noted that rental property is limited mostly to duplexes and asked what should the City do about this situation, what should be the City's goal? Mr.McLean said this had been discussed relative to land use. Mr. Short asked if there is any feeling on the types of multi -family units. Mr. Gourley said in the land use plan they did talk about some condoniniums along Highway #8 and multi -family along Birch Street or Highway #49. A map was consulted and there was further discussion by Mr. Heath that was not audible. Mr. Short felt the important issue is that Lino Lakes recognize the impor- tance of providing a variety of housing types and he will discuss providing housing for a variety of family income types. There was a discussion about Shenandoah 111 and again most of this could not be picked up. Several people were talking at one time and were too far from the mike. Mr. Gourley asked if the Board had to be specific on the multi -family areas, especially on what we plan to put in there as far as the plan is concerned. Mr. Short said not as far as the Land Use Plan is concerned but :this should be discussed with the housing plan and especially with the zoning district plan (R2, R3, R4, etc). Mr. Heath noted these area 'should be specifically zoned R2., R3, R4, etc. Mr...Short said this should appear on a zoning dis- map which would be formally adopted. by the Council. The 3rd. item continued Mr. Locke relates again to 1970 date and concerns owner occupied housing values as estimated in 1977 and is more current. Based on the 1977 estimate a fair amount of Lino Lakes housing is affordable for 27% low income and 44% for modest income. These were Metro Council figures. The question would be where do you go from there? Will you try to