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RESOLUTION NO. 96- 218
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEAR 1997
WHEREAS, 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 Statues 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 Incentive Account is
intended to provide certain funding and other assistant to metropolitan area municipalities; and
WHEREAS, 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 Statues 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 their municipality that are
consistent with and promote the policies of the Metropolitan Council and 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 established housing goals through preparation of the Housing Action plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public hearing, negotiated
affordable and life-cycle housing goals for each participating 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 Incentive Account Program during the calendar year 1996, can participate under
Minnesota Statues section 473.254 only if: (a) the municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing
Incentive 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 Stillwater hereby elects to participate in
the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act during the
calendar year 1997.
By: J? ~4. By: clePI~~ lUJk--
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Stillwater on September 3, 1996.