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RESOLUTION NO. 2020-94
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEARS 2021 THROUGH 2030
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes sections 473.25 to
473.255) 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, the Local Housing Incentive Account and the
Inclusionary Housing 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 Employment 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 that each municipality 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, a metropolitan-area municipality can participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account
Program under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 if:
(a) the municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program;
(b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality successfully negotiate new affordable and life-cycle
housing goals for the municipality;
(c) the Metropolitan Council adopts by resolution the new negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing
goals for the municipality; and
(d) the municipality establishes it has spent or will spend or distribute to the Local Housing Incentives
Account the required Affordable and Life-Cycle Housing Opportunities Amount (ALHOA) for each year the
municipality participates in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Edina:
1. Elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act for calendar years 2021 through 2030.
2. Agrees to the following affordable and life-cycle housing goals for calendar years 2021 through 2030:
Affordable Housing Goals Range Life-Cycle Housing Goal
992-1840 3700
3. Will prepare and submit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it plans to take to
meet its established housing goals.
Passed and adopted this 7th day of October, 2020.
Attest: ______________________________ ______________________________
Sharon Allison, City Clerk James B. Hovland, Mayor
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that the attached
and foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of October 7,
2020, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 7th day of October, 2020.
_______________________________
City Clerk