96-89 CITY OF CHANHA$$EN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DA TE: October 14~ 1996
RESOLUTION NO:
96-89
MOTION BY: Senn SECONDED BY: Mason
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTIClPA TING IN THE
LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM UNDER THE
METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes
Section 4 73.25 to 4 73.254) establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which
/s intended to address housing and other development issues facing the metropolitan
area defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax
Base Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the
Local Housing Incentives Account, is intended to provide certain funding and other
assistance to metropolitan area municipalities; and
WHEREAS, a metropofitan 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 Minnesota Statutes section 473.254; and
WHEREAS, 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
WHEREAS, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the
actions the municipality plans to take to meet the establishing housing goals through
preparation of the Housing Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropofitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public
hearing, the negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for each municipality;
and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in the
Local Housing Incentives Account Program must do so by November 15 of each year;
and
WHEREAS, for calendar year 1997, a metropolitan area municipality that did not
participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program during the calendar year
1996, can participate under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 only if: (a) the
municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by
November 15, 1996; 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 Chanhassen hereby
elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act during calendar year 1997.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 14th day of October,
1996.
ATTEST:
Asl'Fworth, City Clerk/Manager
j~onald j. -~i~, Mayor
YES NO ABSENT
Chmiel
Berquist
Mason
Senn
None Dockendorf