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Mounds View Planning Commission July 21, 2010 Regular Meeting Page 5 ____________________________________________________________________________ Planning Associate Heller stated she would like to add one other condition stating the applicant must meet any recommended changes from the City Attorney. MOTION/SECOND: Commissioner Meehlhause/Commissioner Cramblit. Resolution 931-10 Recommending Approval of The “Coventry Senior Living” Development Review, and Preliminary Plat with the Additions at 2320 & 2340 County Highway 10 and 5260 O’Connell Drive, Mounds View Planning Cases MU2010-001 – DE1 and MU2010-001-MA-1 Ayes – 6 Nays – 0 Motion carried. ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. Other Planning Activity A. Review Metropolitan Livable Communities Act Participation for 2011-2020. Planning Associate Heller stated the City of Mounds View has previously elected to participate in the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act Local Housing Incentives Account (LCA LHIA). Participation in the program is voluntary and provides the City with the opportunity to compete for grants and loans to support activities that help the City meet its affordable and life cycle housing goals, clean up polluted sites, and support demonstration projects linking jobs, housing and transit. The City’s previously adopted LCA LHIA affordable and life cycle housing goals were negotiated with the Metropolitan Council for the period 1996-2010. If the City wants to continue to participate in the LCA, then the City now must establish new affordable and life-cycle housing goals for the next decade (2011-2020). She added the affordable housing goal for Mounds View is 81 additional units. Metropolitan Council has taken into consideration the limitations on Mounds View and has lowered the requirement to a range of 53 to 81 units. The Planning Commission chose 60 units as the goal. Life cycle housing is described as having housing available for all stages of life - starter homes to senior housing. With the new proposed new senior housing development, the City would be adding 95 housing units from that project alone. Our goal range is 80 to 200 units over the next decade. The potential number of units permitted by medium, high and mixed-use land use designations in the Comprehensive Plan Update is at least 132 units. Community Development Director Roberts stated that if we went over any of these goals and applied for any grants we might have a better chance of receiving the money. He added this is an incentive for cities to say yes to development proposals. He also added that the Planning Commission should include goal numbers in the resolution. Staff is recommending 60 Affordable Housing and 132 Life-Cycle Housing Goals.