96-104CITY OF SHOREWOOD
RESOLUTION NO. 96 - 104
A 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 Statutes 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
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 assistance 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 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, Resolution 95 -107 established the following goals for the City of
Shorewood for a two -year period through 1997:
• The City of Shorewood will explore the concept of cluster planning and cooperative
efforts to address affordable housing needs in cooperation with the south Lake
Minnetonka cities,
• Complete the housing section of the Shorewood Comprehensive Plan,
• Pursue an estimated sixty units of affordable senior housing within Shorewood as
recommended in the Senior Housing report of 1991, and
• Work with the Metropolitan Council in addressing barriers to affordable housing in
Shorewood which are direct responsibilities of the Metropolitan Council, most
specifically, high metropolitan sewage charges and the lack of metropolitan transit
service with no options for providing said services; 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, Shorewood's Housing Action Plan, following review and acceptance by
the Planning Commission, was submitted to the met Council on June 26, 1996; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Shorewood Comprehensive Plan as updated in 1995 includes
the following goal:
The City shall promote the development of safe, healthy and affordable
housing options;
and the following objective:
Develop a senior housing program which:
• Allows seniors to stay in their single - family homes,
• Provides a range of housing types including step -down housing, senior
apartments and assisted -living housing, with initial emphasis being placed on
step -down housing,
• Establishes regulations which permit the construction of affordable senior
housing while ensuring compatibility with existing residential neighborhoods,
• Assists financially in senior housing projects to ensure affordability and enhance
compatibility with existing developments; 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 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 the City Council of the City of
Shorewood hereby elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the
Metropolitan Livable Communities Act during the calendar year 1997.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Shorewood this 11th day of
November, 1996.
Robert B. Bean, Mayor
ATTEST:
James C. Hurm, City Administrator