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• <br />• <br />COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 9,1998 <br />CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />MINUTES <br />DATE December 9, 1998 <br />TIME STARTED 5:30 P.M. <br />TIME ENDED 10:05 P.M. <br />MEMBERS PRESENT Bergeson, Dahl, Lyden, Neal, Sullivan <br />MEMBERS ABSENT None <br />Staff members present: Acting City Administrator/Police Chief, David Pecchia; City <br />Engineer, John Powell, Planning Coordinator, Mary Kay Wyland; Community <br />Development Coordinator, Mary Alice Divine; City Planner, Jeff Smyser; Administration <br />Director, Dan Tesch; Public Services Director, Rick DeGardner; Community <br />Development Director, Brian Wessel; Financial Analysis, Daryl Sulander; Environmental <br />and Forestry Coordinator, Marty Asleson and Clerk -Treasurer, Marilyn Anderson. <br />LIVABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM PARTICIPATION/GOALS, BRIAN <br />WESSEL <br />The Livable Communities Act was passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 1995 and <br />Metropolitan (Met) Council is the agency administrating the Act. This will be the fourth <br />year that Lino Lakes has made a commitment to the Act. Jeff summarized the proposal <br />for participation in 1999. <br />The City Council will be requested to adopt two (2) resolutions. The first is a resolution <br />electing to continue participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program <br />under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act, Calendar Year 1999. The second <br />resolution will establish Livable Community Goals. There are two (2) concerns. At this <br />time the housing market is not lending itself to affordable or varied housing except town <br />homes. The second is that the figures are based on 1990 census data. These two (2) <br />problems make the goals unrealistic. Everything will change after the 2000 census is <br />completed. <br />To be eligible for any of the funds under the Act, a city agrees to work toward promoting <br />a greater variety of housing. To provide some sort of indication of progress, the city sets <br />long-range goals regarding housing affordbility, life cycle housing and development <br />densities. <br />The City received a grant of nearly $220,000 last year to conduct various studies <br />involving The Village. Currently the City is in the midst of a planning effort to bring in <br />the best people in the country to focus on mixed development for that portion of the City. <br />With this effort, the City will get high quality development. Although, normally Met <br />Council would fund "bricks and mortar", they see this as a demonstration project and <br />once planning is complete, the City will be eligible for future funding. <br />Page 1 <br />