2009-61
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE:
AU1!Ust 10, 2009
RESOLUTION NO:
2009-61
MOTION BY:
Litsev
SECONDED BY:
McDonald
A RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City of Chanhassen, Minnesota is a participant in the Livable
Communities Act's Housing Incentives Program for 2009 as determined by the Metropolitan
Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets the
Demonstration Account's purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes
of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's
adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure
adequate project administration; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations
as stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant
application submitted on August 10, 2009; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account
grants are intended to fund projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or
prototypes for development or redevelopment projects elsewhere in the region, and therefore
represents that the proposed project or key components of the proposed project can be replicated
in other metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and the
Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to
eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of Demonstration Account grant
funding.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
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1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the
proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the project component(s) for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funding is sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably
foreseeable future; and
(b) will not occur within two years after a grant award unless Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding
for the project component for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding
is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for
project component completion within two years and states that this representation is based
on the following reasons and supporting facts:
(a) The property owner of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre currently has existing driveway
access for their property.
(b) SouthWest Transit may access their proposed park and ride facility through existing
driveway access.
(c) The City has no dedicated funding source for construction of the proposed roadway.
(d) The proposed roadway has potential benefit beyond the two immediate adjacent
property owners.
4. Authorizes its Community Development Director to submit on behalf of the City an application
for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant funds for the
project component(s) identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as may be
necessary to implement the project on behalf of the City.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 10th day of August, 2009.
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L~
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
YES
Furlong
Litsey
McDonald
Tjornhom
NO
ABSENT
Ernst
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