HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 99-08RESOLUTION 99-8
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA
A RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING
IN THE LOCAL, HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEAR 1999
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes Section
473.25 to 473.254) establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which is
intended to address housing and other development issues facing the metropolitan area
defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base
Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the Local
Housing Incentive Account, is intended to provide certain funding and other assistance to
metropolitan area municipalities; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipally is not eligible to receive grants or loans
under the Metropolitan Livable Communities "fund or eligible to receive certain polluted
sites cleanup funding from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
Development unless the municipallty is participating in the Local Housing Incentives
Account Program under the Minnesota Statutes section 473.254; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan
Council to negotiate with each municipality to establish affordable and life -cycle housing
goals for that municipality that are consistent with and promote the policies of the
Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide; and
WHEREAS, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions the
municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through preparation of
the Housing Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution. after a public hearing,
negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for each participating municipality;
and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in the Local
Housing Incentives Account Program must do so by November 15 of each year; and
WHEREAS, for calendar year 1999, a metropolitan area municipality that participated in
the Local Housing Incentive Account Program, during the calendar year 1999, can
continue to participate under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 if: (a) the municipality
elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by November 15,
1999; and (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality have successfully negotiated
affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the municipality:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Lake Elmo hereby elects
to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act during the calendar year 1999.
By: By: X/l/4UL'4/�4 �_4 z
Mayor City Ad inistrato