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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, 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
VVHEREAS, 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 Locai
• Housing Incentives Account Program must do so by November 15 0�each year; and
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WI�REAS, 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 THAT the city of Orono hereby elects to
participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act during the calendar year 1997.
Adopted by the ciry Council at a regular meeting held November 12, 1996.
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Dorothy M. m, City Clerk
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