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City of Lino Lakes Livable Communities Act Housing Action Plan page 2 residential areas will provide much needed housing options for the city’s work force, young professionals, families, and senior residents. Future Affordable and Life-Cycle Housing To provide for affordable housing in the community, the City is taking the appropriate regulatory measures within its 2030 Comprehensive Plan by guiding areas for higher density housing and including policies to integrate affordable housing in residential land use districts. These regulatory measures represent one of the City’s most effective tools for the development of affordable housing. To meet affordable housing goals, the City has planned for potential new growth with a variety of residential land use types and densities for the development of life-cycle and affordable housing across the city. As part of the 2030 Regional Development Framework, the Metropolitan Council conducted a study to determine the additional affordable housing units will be needed in the region between 2011-2020. The study included a method for allocating affordable housing to all communities within the region. The allocation for Lino Lakes was 560 High Density and Mixed Use units at a minimum density of 6 units per net acre by 2020. The city’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan includes the city’s future Land Use Plan , which accommodates that goal. After the preparation of the Land Use Plan , the City and the Metropolitan Council negotiated a more refined set of Livable Communities goals for 2011-2020: 364 to 560 affordable dwelling units, and 560 to 1860 life-cycle dwelling units. The Land Use Plan accommodates these goals as well. While the City is doing its part in creating a regulatory Land Use Plan to guide areas for higher density housing, which is where most affordable housing will likely occur, barriers to development of affordable housing still exist in Lino Lakes and the region. Some of these barriers are beyond the City’s control, including the following: • Steady increases in land prices and construction costs. • Physical limitations of land—due to wetlands, poor access, and poor soils—that would increase the cost of land development or construction. • State, county and local tax structures. There are some significant barriers to construction of new affordable housing, and the above list includes just a few of these barriers. Despite these difficulties, the provision of affordable housing is an important effort that cities undertake. The most effective role Lino Lakes will have in the provision of affordable housing is its regulatory tools: including land use and zoning regulations that do not impede the construction of affordable housing. Many of these tools can be used to encourage developers. Flexibility, through the use of the Planned Unit Development (PUD) process, may be provided to encourage the construction of affordable housing. Acknowledging the regional housing goals established by the Metropolitan Council and adopting new Livable Communities goals does not commit the City of Lino Lakes to provide funding for