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• The Plan should include data on the percentage or numerical value regarding the existing number of existing single-family homes and multi -family homes. City Response: The tables within the housing plan were updated to include the required data. Housing: Guiding Land Use and Density Summary of Comments for Completeness: Land guided to address the City's allocation of affordable housing need for 2021-2030 is not sufficiently described for review. To be complete, the following items need to be addressed: • The Plan needs to include a staging table indicating that the acres meant to address the need (specifically High Density Residential and Mixed Use Residential) are expected to develop between 2021 and 2030. • As noted in the Land Use section of this letter, there is inconsistent information about the High Density Residential land use. On Page 60, the narrative says that HOR requires a minimum of 8 units/acre, but in the summary to the right the minimum density is 6 units/acre. • On page 83, the Plan describes the need for policies that will allow the opportunity for the development of 834 new affordable housing units between 2018 and 2040. The forecasted need for new affordable housing of 834 new units is only for the decade 2021-2030. Land guided to address that need must also be shown as expected to develop within that same decade to adequately address those units. City Response: The plan and table were updated. Affordable Housing Tools Summary of Comments for Completeness: Tools that the City could consider to address housing needs are not adequately described and do not include sufficient description of what types of housing needs the City would consider using them to support, or, if applicable, when they would be considered. Mention of existing agencies that have housing assistance is not sufficient. The specific tools available at those agencies (and others) must be described and the level of local support of those tools (some of which require local match dollars, technical assistance, or formal support) must be noted. City Response: The text was updated to strengthen the language that references our adopted policy. We have added an appendix to the Comprehensive Plan document outlining the City's Livable Communities Action Plan. Summary of Comments for Completeness: Simply describing a tool that exists, or that a tool may be considered or supported (with no sense of when or why). is not sufficient to let developers of affordable housing to know what types of projects are worth engaging the City on. The list of widely used tools that the City should consider to address its housing needs can be found at the following link. https://metrocouncil.org/Handbook/Files/Resources/Fact-SheeVHOUSING/Recognized- Tools-and- Resources.aspx City Response: See previous response. Advisory Comment: All of the existing housing data (including the owner -occupied home values map) sourced from the Metropolitan Council has been updated with 2016 data. The Council recommends reviewing the updated Existing Housing Assessment on Hugo's community page in the Local Planning Handbook and updating any relevant data. City Response: We updated the document with this information that was developed by the Metropolitan Council after our plan was completed. Corrin Wendell March 4, 2019