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WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
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WHEREAS,
RESOLUTION NO. 99-135
A RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING
IN THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2000
Motion by: Petersen
Second by: Wuellner
the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statues Section 473.25 to
473.254) establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which is intended
to address housing and other development issues facing the metropolitan area
defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base
Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the
Local Housing Incentive Account, is intended to provide certain funding and other
assistance to metropolitan area municipalities; and
a metropolitan area municipality is not eligible to receive grants or loans under the
Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund or eligible to receive certain polluted sites
cleanup funding from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
Development unless the municipality is participating in the Local Housing
Incentives Account Program under the Minnesota Statutes section 473.254; and
the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan Council to
negotiate with each municipality to establish affordable and life-cycle housing
goals for that municipality that are consistent with and promote the policies of the
Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide;
and
each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions the
municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through
preparation of the Housing Action Plan; and
the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public hearing, negotiated
affordable and life-cycle housing goals for each participating municipality; and
a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in the Local Housing
Incentives Account Program must renew the program by resolution each year; and
WHEREAS for calendar year 2000, a metropolitan area municipality that participated in the
Local Housing Incentive Account Program during the calendar year 1997, can
continue to participate under Minnesota Statues section 473.254 if : (a) the
municiPality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program
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by November 15, 1997; and (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality have
successfully negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for the municipality:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Prior Lake hereby elects to participate in
the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act during the
calendar year 2000.
Passed and adopted this 20th day of December, 1999.
YES NO
MADER X MADER
KEDROWSKI X KEDROWSKI
PETERSEN X PETERSEN
SCHENCK X SCHENCK
WUELLNER X WUELLNER
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