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• Use the land use plan as a tool to provide a variety of residential land uses in a range of <br />densities, concentrating higher density opportunities along major transportation and <br />transit corridors and around future job centers. <br />• Periodically review land use regulations to determine the effectiveness of current <br />ordinances in encouraging additional affordable units as well as encouraging <br />modifications to keep the existing housing stock desirable and livable. <br />• Streamline permitting and development processes to ease the rehabilitation or <br />improvement of existing homes and reduce unwarranted cost impacts on the price of <br />entry -level homes. <br />• Work with the Anoka County HRA to meet the community's life -cycle and affordable <br />housing needs. <br />As you can see, the city council has a wide variety of tools at its disposal to encourage affordable <br />housing. Keep in mind that the Land Use Plan in the draft Comp Plan also places high priority on <br />encouraging better site design and resource conservation using the same types of incentives that are used <br />to encourage affordable housing. The Land Use Plan states (Ch. 3 Pg. 3): <br />Policy 5. Provide clearly defined incentives to achieve significant and discernable public <br />values not achievable under conventional development standards. These public values <br />include, but are not limited to: <br />a. Preserving open space, providing park dedication and trails, and/or providing <br />storm water management areas, in excess of minimum standards to implement <br />the Resource Management System Plan, as amended, and Rice Creek <br />Watershed District's Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan, as amended <br />b. Using "Green" building and low impact development techniques <br />c. Restoring /enhancing ecological systems <br />d. Ensuring long term natural resource stewardship funding <br />e. Managing stormwater using natural filtration and other ecologically based <br />approaches <br />f Providing life -cycle and affordable housing <br />g. Diversifying the tax base to lessen the tax burden on residential properties <br />h. Providing infrastructure that benefits community beyond the project site that <br />would otherwise not be financially feasible <br />6. Identify and define incentives offered to developers for achieving specific public <br />values not achievable under conventional development standards. These <br />incentives may include, but are not limited to: <br />a. Density transfer/bonuses <br />b. Reduced street and right -of -way widths <br />c. Trunk utility and stormwater management fee credits <br />d. Staging plan flexibility <br />e. Streamlined city approval process <br />f Financial incentives when consistent with city policy <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />