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Metropolitan Agencies <br />4-Q Livable Communities <br />The Livable Communities Act (LCA), administered by the Metropolitan Council, <br />provides a voluntary, incentive -based approach to affordable housing development, tax <br />base revitalization, job growth and preservation, brown field clean up and mixed-use, <br />transit -friendly development and redevelopment. Metro Cities strongly supports the <br />continuation of this approach, which has been widely accepted and is fully utilized by <br />local communities. Since its inception in 1995, the LCA program has generated billions <br />of dollars of private and public investment, created thousands of jobs and added <br />thousands of affordable housing units in the region. <br />Metro Cities supports a review of the LCA programs, and any necessary statutory <br />changes, to ensure that the LCA program criteria are flexible and promote the <br />participation of all participating communities, and to ensure that all metropolitan <br />area cities are eligible to participate in the Livable Communities Demonstration <br />Account (LCDA). <br />Metro Cities supports increased funding and flexible eligibility requirements in the <br />LCDA in order to assist communities with development that may not be exclusively <br />market driven or market proven in their particular location and in order to support <br />important development and redevelopment goals. <br />Metro Cities supports the statutory goals and criteria established for the Livable <br />Communities Act, and opposes any changes to LCA programs that constrain <br />flexibility around statutory goals, program requirements and criteria. <br />Metro Cities opposes funding reductions to the Livable Communities Program and <br />the transfer or use of these funds for purposes outside of the LCA program. <br />Metro Cities supports statutory modifications in the LCDA to reflect the linkages <br />among the goals, municipal objectives, and Met Council system objectives. <br />Metro Cities supports the use of LCA funds for projects in transit improvement <br />areas, as defined in statute, as long as funding levels for general LCA programs are <br />adequate to meet program goals and the program remains accessible to <br />participating communities. <br />Use of interest earnings from LCA funds should be limited to covering the costs of <br />administering the program. Remaining interest earnings not used for program <br />administration should be considered part of the LCA funds and used to fund grant <br />requests from the established LCA accounts, according to established funding criteria. <br />4-111 Density <br />Any Met Council density policy and density determination must take into account the <br />impacts of market trends on city development and redevelopment activities. <br />2016 Legislative Policies 47 <br />