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Image Placeholder 85HOUSING2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE DRAFT Dec14-17 for review only A2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE DRAFT Dec14-17 for review only A2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE A2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE 2040 Housing Plan Guiding Principles 1 Provide a variety of housing types at a range of values to support a sustainable community Objectives: • Provide safe and adequate housing for all people, regardless of age, income or ethnic background� • Create ordinances that support the City’s desire to have well designed and maintained housing at all levels� • Provide live-work housing options within the community to allow for a diversity of residents within the community� • Encourage developments to include a variety of housing types� • Explore zoning methods that allow neighborhoods with mixed housing types and or other appropriate uses within residential areas� • Create and maintain a level of affordability options through the community’s housing stock� 2 Implement policies that will allow the opportunity for the development of 834 new affordable housing units between 2018 and 2040 An affordable housing unit is a unit priced at or below 30% of the gross income of a household earning below 80% of the Twin Cities median family income for a family of four (or $65,700 in 2016). 3 Promote the development and preservation of a supply of quality housing that is affordable at all income levels and at all stages of the life cycle Objectives: • Provide opportunities for the development of high quality housing that is diverse in terms of ownership, price, type, and style� This diversity shall include large lot residential parcels, as well as life cycle and affordable housing� • Encourage residential developers to include housing affordable to low- and moderate-income residents and local employees as part of their developments to provide a range of mixed-income housing throughout the community� Subsidized housing shall not be concentrated in any one neighborhood� • Provide financial or technical assistance, as may be appropriate, to developers of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents� • Encourage the development of housing for residents with special needs, including accessible housing for persons with disabilities� • Support efforts to assure equal access to housing opportunities within the City� • Support projects and programs that meet Hugo’s needs for low- and moderate-income life cycle housing opportunities� • Provide an adequate supply of land guided for Medium Density Residential, High Density Residential, and Mixed Use� • Allow higher density elderly housing in areas guided for lower density residential land uses�