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Page 3 Enclosure Letter to Charles E. Dillerud September 26, 2005, aviation comments above, but the specifics of land use and development staging -timing in the Village and Greenbelt areas are needed to fully evaluate implications for other metro systems and how low- and moderate -cost housing opportunities will be provided. Housirne The City's plan as submitted needs revision and additional information to comply with comprehensive plan requirements regarding low and moderate -income set forth in the Land Planning Act. The city's plan states all the pre-2011 sewered growth will be in Old Village, but it does not delineate any of the residential land uses that will be in place in the Old Village for the balance of this decade. Because of this, the Council cannot fairly assess Whether Lake Elmo is providing the opportunity for the development of new rental or affordable owner -occupied housing through 2010. The Land Planning Act (LPA) requires local governments to address at least two issues regarding low and moderate -income housing needs in preparing their local comprehensive plans. They must identify in their plan their share of the regional need for low and moderate - income housing, and they must prepare an implementation section of the plan that identifies how they will address this share of the regional need. The plan amendment does neither. In employing the same housing goals methodology other communities used in preparing their 1995 comprehensive plan updates, the ! .`bunch exports LOce Elr'no to set g,gg1s cod lstentt wt :t re hquslug enc 1 s idei}t had £or bt er urWnizriig coitn iumitias';n the 1*1bi ie`as st St. Paulslai3rlg'•s gto bb regions: T`lie plan would then identify a sufficient amount of sewei`ed land guided for medium and high density development pre-2011 to accommodate those goals. The Council would expect to see Lake Elmo applying its goals to the new sewered units in the cty's Old Village neighborhood, and thus, guiding land there at a density that could facilitate opportunities for affordable units. The be4011xnar for Laic l is 9 e1Sp pd fo its But the above -noted land use planning deficiency is only a part of the LPA's housing implementation plan responsibilities. The law requires the identification of the programs and fiscal devices the city will use or others may use within Lake Elmo to advance affordable housing pre-2011. The potential role the Washington County HRA can play in helping Lake Elmo work toward its share of the region's needs could be mentioned as could the various programs and development assistance tools from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency or