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LOCAL �'�0U811N€l 11INCEN IV r-+ S ACCOUNT IT 2.13. Effect of Grant. Issuance of this grant neither implies any Council responsibility for contamination, if any, at the Project site nor imposes any obligation on the Council to participate in any pollution cleanup of the Project site if such cleanup is undertaken or required. 2.14. Resale Limitations. The Grantee must impose resale limitations regarding the disposition of any equity realized by the purchasers of "affordable" units if grant funds received from the Council under this Agreement are used for homeownership affordability gap financing in the Project described or identified in Attachment A. The intent of this resale limitation is to protect the public investment in the Project and ensure that a proportion of the affordability gap provided by the public investment in the form of grant funds received from the Council is recaptured for reuse in conjunction with other affordable housing efforts and does not become a windfall for any purchaser who might sell the home prior to expiration of a predetermined resale limitation period. If a purchaser sells the "affordable" home prior to expiration of the resale limitation time period, an equitable proportion of the affordability gap filled by grant funds received from the Council under this Agreement must be recaptured by the Grantee within twenty-four (24) months of the triggering resale event and applied to a similar affordable housing project within the Participating Municipality, or returned to the Council. Unless otherwise agreed to by the Council and the Grantee, the length of the resale limitation time period and the proportion of the affordability gap to be recovered will be consistent with resale limitation time periods and repayment schedules stated in the Project application. These resale limitations do not apply when the grant funds are used for homeownership value gap financing. 2.15. Affordability Term. The Grantee shall, through written instruments or otherwise, ensure the affordable units acquired or developed with grant funds made available under this Agreement will remain affordable for a minimum period of fifteen (15) years. The Grantee's obligation under this section may be satisfied if other Project funding sources (e.g., the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD")) or state or federal laws (e.g., low-income housing tax credit programs) require an affordability term of at least fifteen (15) years. For the purposes of this section, "affordable housing unit" means a unit that is affordable to households at 80 percent (80%) or less of the Area Median Income ("AMI"), as established by HUD, unless the Grantee's application stated an affordability standard lower than 80 percent (80%) of AMI, in which case the Grantee's lower affordability standard shall apply. The affordability requirements of this section shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement. 2.16. Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plans. The Grantee shall, through written instruments or otherwise, ensure the Project owner (and any subsequent owner(s)) adopts and implements an affirmative fair housing marketing plan for all Project housing units (whether market rate or affordable). For the purposes of this section, "affirmative fair housing marketing plan" means an affirmative fair housing marketing plan that substantially conforms to affirmative fair housing marketing plans published by HUD. The affirmative fair housing marketing plan requirement under this section shall continue for the minimum affordability term specified in Section 2.15 and shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement. Page 7 of 12 Pages Boulevard Project rev. 12/12/17