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Document: RES 81-051 RESOLUTION ACTIVATING A HOUSING ANS
REDEVLOPMENT AUTHORITY IN AND FOR THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY
RESOLUTION NO. 81-051
• RESOLUTION ACTIVATING A
HOUSING' AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN
AND FOR THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City .of
St. Anthony, Minnesota (the City) as follows:
Section 1. " It is hereby found, determined and
declared:
1.1 The Minnesota Legislature has enacted the
Housing and Redevelopment Act, - Minnesota' Statutes,
Sections 462 . 411 to 462. 711 (the Act) , which authorizes a
municipality to activate a housing and redevelopment
authority in and for the municipality for the purpose of
undertaking redevelopment projects, including the
acquisition and improvement of blighted areas or open or
undeveloped land. The Act itself created a housing and
redevelopment authority in each municipality in the state,
but forbade the .authority to transact any business or
exercise any powers granted by the Act until activated by
resolution of the governing body of .the municipality.
1. 2 In enacting the Act, the Legislature found r<:
• that the welfare of the State reiluires the redevelopment.
of urban- and rural areas which .by reason of sociological
and technological changes, faulty arrangement or design of-
buildings -andimprovements, lack' of public facilities, or
4 deleterious land use or" obsolete layout inflict blight
upon the ,economic value of large areas., impair the value.
of private investments., threaten the source of public
revenues and decentralize communities to areas improperly
planned. and not related . to public facilities. . The
Legislature found that such conditions cannot be remedied
by the ordinary operations of -private enterprise or 'by
regulation alone, but that local public bodies must be
created .and authorized to undertake redevelopment where
the cost would not. warrant private initiative, subject to
the declared policy of the State that before public
participation-. is authorized or undertaken it be determined
locally that redevelopment cannot be met through reliance
solely upon private initiative. Participation by
municipalities in redevelopment projects according to a
redevelopment plan as provided in the Act was declared
by the Legislature to be a .public use and purpose for -which
private property may acquired and public money may be
spent.
1. 3 As required by Section 462.425., Subdivision
2 of the Act, a public hearing was conducted July 14 , 1981,
on the proposal to activate a housing and redevelopment
authority for the City, after publication- of notice of the
hearing in the official newspaper of the City once not less
_than ten days nor more than thirty. days before the public
hearing.
1.4 This Council hereby declares that there is a
need for a housing and redevelopment authority to function
in the City, since there exist deterioriated and substandard .
areas within the City which cannot be redeveloped without
government assistance, and since there is a shortage of
decent., safe and family dwelling accomodations in the City
available. to persons of low income at rentals they can afford.
1. 5 The principal area' in - immediate need of redevelop-
ment is the area north of .Lowry Avenue, west of St. Anthony
Boulevard and south of Kenzie Terrace, plus certain property
on the north side of Kenzie Terrace. Because these areas
contain buildings or improvements and are by reason of
faulty arrangement or 'design, deleterious land use or obsolete
layout detrimental to the welfare of the City, this Council
• finds the areas to comprise a "deterioriated area" and a
"substandard area" within the meaning of Section 462.421, _
Subdivision 11 and Section 462. 425, -Subdivision 1 of the
Act.
Section 2. There is hereby activated in and for
the City a housing and redevelopment authority, created as
a public body corporate and politic by Section 462 . 425,
Subdivision- 1 of the Acta Said authority shall be known
as the Housing and Redevelopment. Authority in and for the
City of St. Anthony and shall consist of five -commissioners,
who shall be persons residing- within the territorial boundaries
of the City. The commissioners shall be appointed by .
the Mayor., with the approval of this Council, after this
resolution becomes finally effective. Initial appointments
shall be for terms. of one, .two, three, four and five years.,
respectively; thereafter each commissioner shall be
appointed for a five-year term; provided that if members
of the City Council are appointed commissioners, their
terms of office as commissioners may coincide with their ,
terms of office as council members. Upon appointment of
the commissioners and adoption of by-laws, the Authority
shall exercise all powers and transact such business as it
deems necessary or desirable under the Act.
Section 3. The City shall cause this resolution
to be published .in the official newspaper of the City in
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the same manner in which ordinances are published. The
City Clerk is further authorized and directed to file,
when this resolution is finally effective, a certified
copy of this resolution with the Minnesota Housing
Commission.
MaAr
Attest: .�
City Clerk
Reviewed for administration:
A ting City Manager
Adopted this day of , 1981.
Publish: St. Anthony Bulletin on .the X34 day of
Q.�1
1981.
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