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City of Lino Lakes Livable Communities Act Housing Action Plan page 3 housing. The City will continue to investigate means to pursue the goals in its comprehensive plan. However, this should not be interpreted as a commitment to use City funds to overcome the financial obstacles to life-cycle and affordable housing. Housing Implementation Strategies and Recommendations The housing chapter in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan identifies efforts Lino Lakes will pursue to create opportunities to maintain the existing housing stock, and to provide increased housing options for future residents. This Housing Action Plan reiterates and supports those strategies. These strategies are based on goals and rationales for Community, Neighborhood and Residential development developed by the Citizen Vision Committee. Many of the strategies are designed as resource tools for specific measures the City can effectively undertake and enforce. Others are designed as tools to encourage developers to incorporate affordable housing into future development. As future subdivisions are proposed, the City will use these resources and implement the strategies in working with developers to create new affordable housing opportunities. Many of these items are things the City itself can do. Others will occur through partnerships the City will seek out in order to provide for and maintain housing quality and increase affordable housing opportunities. During the community’s Visioning and Comprehensive Plan processes, participants developed new goals and strategies for housing development in the community. The complete set of goals and strategies, is listed in Chapter 3 of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the Land Use Plan. Several goals are particularly related to housing in Lino Lakes, and they form the bases for implementation of housing policies and thus for this Housing Action Plan. The following implementation strategies can be found in the housing chapter of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. Several have been grouped together here with additional information describing actions that have been taken, are underway, or are planned. To ensure housing development is compatible with existing and adjacent land uses and provides accessibility to key community features and natural amenities (Goal 3), the City will: • Offer incentives to developers who provide for affordable housing units while conserving environmentally sensitive sites, such as density bonuses, expedited permitting processes, or reduced fees. • Encourage innovative low impact development to preserve open space or natural features. o To implement the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the City is conducting a major review of its official controls including zoning and subdivision regulations. The PUD is a tool providing discretionary flexibility that can promote many policy goals such as environmental protection and the provision of affordable and life-cycle housing.