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Community Feedback Feedback from the Open Houses indicates that residents support the recent development of the different types of housing in the City. A diversity of housing types gives residents options to stay in the City as their lives change, as their families grow or children leave their homes. -Y.117 _r 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE State and County Housing Initiatives In 1996, the State Legislature passed the Livable Communities Act to induce communities, through the use of incentive funding of certain projects, to meet state and regional goals for housing development. These goals include: • Developing communities providing a full range of housing opportunities. • Rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing in developed areas. • Interrelating development or redevelopment of transit with housing. • Interrelating affordable housing and employment growth. • Intensification of land use to have more compact development and redevelopment. • Mixing the income levels of residents in neighborhoods. • Encouraging public infrastructure development that connects urban and suburban communities. Communities' housing plans are reviewed by the Metropolitan Council for consistency with state law and established goals. As a minimum, the plan must include a description of the community's existing housing supply, identify future housing needs, establish policies to guide decision making for residential development and redevelopment, and describe the methods to be used by the community to achieve its housing goals. The Metropolitan Council will "work with local communities in a partnership to meet the range of housing needs of people at various life- cycle stages; broaden location choice and access throughout the region for people of all income levels; and support use of public funds to help achieve these goals. The Council will use the State Livable Communities Act to further this goal." In addition to housing policies established at the state and regional levels, Washington County also has various housing plans and programs that encourage the development of life -cycle and affordable housing. Washington County's mission statement is: "Through innovation, the Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority promotes community and economic development and provides and maintains affordable, decent and safe housing opportunities in Washington County." HOUSING 8A