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February 14, 2007 H O P K I N S Council Report 2007-021
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HENNEPIN COUNTY TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION -EAST
MAINSTREET REDEVELOPMENT
Proposed Action
Staff recommends adoption of the following motion: Move to approve Resolution 2007-
15supporting the Hennepin County Housing & Redevelopment Authority's Transit
Oriented Development Grant application.
With this motion the application will be prepared and sent to Hennepin County for
consideration.
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The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners included $2,000,000 in bonding for
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the 2007 Capital Budget. The County Board is
making these funds available through a competitive grant process with applications due
by February 22, 2007.
Projects eligible for TOD funding must reinforce both the community and the transit
system, exhibit a compact and efficient use of available space, rather than auto oriented
sprawl and contain a diversity and mix of uses with daily conveniences and transit at the
center. Projects must be located in an established redevelopment area.
The two projects approved for the redevelopment area, Sixth & Main and Marketplace &
Main, both exhibit the qualities that make them transit oriented and therefore eligible to
apply for these funds. The application will seek $400,000 to pay for demolition and
related site activities.
Primary Issues to Consider
The grant funds would be used to fund the demolition portion of the two projects and
reduce the Hopkins Housing & Redevelopment Authority's expenditures on the projects.
Supporting Information
Resolution 2007-15
TOD Gu~deli
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Kerste Iverum
Hou g & Development Coordinator
Financial Impact: $ 0 Budgeted: Y/N Source:
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CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2007-15
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT GRANT
APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO THE HENNEPIN COUNTY HOUSING AND
REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins has established Tax Increment District 1-3 and 1-4 to facilitate
the redevelopment of the east end of Mainstreet; and
WHEREAS, the redevelopment costs exceed the funds available to the project; and
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins considers the redevelopment of these project areas a priority
for the City.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Hopkins, in accordance with Minnesota
Statures 383B.77, subd. 3., supports the Transit Oriented Development grant application
submitted to the Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority on February 22, 2007,
by the Hopkins Housing & Redevelopment Authority for the East Mainstreet redevelopment site.
Adopted this 20th day of February, 2007.
By
Eugene J. Maxwell, Mayor
Attest:
Terry Obermaier, City Clerk.
Hennepin County Department of
Housing, Community Works and Transit
2007
Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Guidelines
Hennepin County Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Bond Funds
Hennepin County Housing, Community Works and Transit
417 North Fifth Street, Suite 320
Minneapolis, MN 55401-1362
Please note that awards under this program may be funded out of the
proceeds of taz-ezempt bonds. You should consider whether the source of
funds has implications, financial or otherwise, to your project.
I. Introduction
Laws of Minnesota 2001, Chapter 214, Section 10, expanded the authority of Hennepin
County to issue bonds without referendum under its capital improvement bond authority to
finance public and private multi jurisdictional housing and redevelopment activities. (See
Appendix B Definitions.)
Hennepin County is making available $2 million in Capital Bond funds to support multi-
. jurisdictional Transit Oriented Development (TOD) housing and redevelopment projects
located at or directly adjacent to light rail stations and major bus transit centers where
transit service is frequent and high capacity. These funds are intended to supplant, not
replace, existing available resources, and increase use of Transit Corridors in Hennepin
County.
II. Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants include: Statutory or home rule charter cities or towns, development
authorities (e.g. Housing Redevelopment Authority, Economic Development Authority or
Port Authority) and private entities. The government body for the jurisdiction in which the
project takes place must adopt resolutions that authorize submittal of the application and
execution of subsequent implementing grant agreements and contracts, document that the
project is in a Redevelopment Project Area, and approve participation in a multi-
jurisdictional project with Hennepin County and the Hennepin County Housing and
Redevelopment Authority (HCHRA).
III. Eligible Areas are in Hennepin County Only
Funding is only available to those multi jurisdictional programs and projects in Hennepin
County that are located within officially designated Redevelopment Project Areas or
Housing Districts and are adjacent to Hennepin County Transit Corridors, and/or where
new or enhanced transit services supporting Hennepin County strategies are taking place.
Eligible areas include, but are not limited to: 29~` Street Midtown Greenway; Hiawatha
LRT Corridor; Northeast Diagonal, Dakota Rail Line, Southwest Corridor; and the County
Road 81 Bottineau Boulevard, including Lowry Avenue and West Broadway. Applicants
must document access to existing and enhanced bus transit service, where applicable.
IV. Eligible Activities
PREFERENCE GIVEN TO ACTIVITIES THAT INCREASE TRANSIT RIDERSHIP
Eligible activities and use of funds that support a public purpose include:
a) Acquire real property for the purpose of removing, preventing or reducing blight,
blighting factors or the causes of blight;
b) Clear acquired property and install streets, utilities, and site improvements for uses in
accordance with the redevelopment project;
c) Sell or lease acquired land for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan; and,
d) Installation of public infrastructure improvements, including pedestrian lighting, that
improve pedestrian and transit rider safety.
V. Funding Availability
Hennepin County Capital Bond Funds are the source of funding for this program. Funding
can be made available in the form of grants and loans. Hennepin County may offer either
grants or loans to approved applicants. Grant funds are provided on a reimbursement basis
only. Grantees will only be reimbursed for actual costs as approved in the grant application
and subsequent negotiated work programs and contracts. Loan funds may be made with
negotiated rates and terms. Loans may require execution of loan agreements, promissory
notes and security agreements.
VI. Application Selection and Approval Process
Applications will be reviewed by the Hennepin County Department of Housing,
Community Works and Transit and approved by Hennepin County and the HCHRA
Hennepin County Boards in the fall of 2007. Funding will be available in January 2008.
Selection criteria include, but are not limited to:
• Extent to which projects are directly adjacent to transit stops along Hennepin County
Transit Corridors;
• Extent to which projects increase density near Transit Corridors;
• Extent to which projects increase ridership of transit services;
• Extent to which projects leverage other public and private resources.
The review process will also consider:
• Extent to which site design connects building entrance(s) to functional, ADA
approved sidewalks, intersections and/or trails leading to bus or LRT stop.
• Extent to which pedestrians or bicyclists would access the transit system from the
proposed development, and the walking or bicycling distance to nearest transit
stop(s).
VII. Application Submittal and Procedures
Submittal Deadline: February 22, 2007 - 4:00 p.m.
• Completion of application with accompanying applicant Resolutions.
Submit one original application and four copies.
VIII. Program Contact
Potential applicants are encouraged to review projects with Mr. Connoy prior to submittal.
Patrick R. Connoy
Economic Development Project Coordinator
Hennepin County Housing, Community Works and Transit
417 North Fifth Street, Suite 320
Minneapolis, MN 55401-1362
612-348-2215
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612-348-9710 (fax)
patrick.connoy a-,co.hennepin.mn.us
IX. Limitations:
Under Minnesota law, data submitted by a business to a government entity in response to a
request for proposal are private or nonpublic until the responses are opened. Once the
responses are opened, the name of the proposer becomes public. All other data in a
proposer's response to a request for proposal are private or nonpublic data until completion
of the evaluation process. Completion of the evaluation process means that the government
entity has completed negotiating the contract with the selected proposer. After a
government entity has completed the evaluation process, all remaining data submitted by
all proposers are public with the exception of trade secret data as defined and classified in
Minnesota Statute Section 13.37. A statement by a proposer that data are copyrighted or
otherwise protected does not prevent public access to the data contained in the response if
such data does not qualify as trade secret data.
This application does not commit Hennepin County or the HCHRA to pay any costs
incurred in the preparation of a proposal for this application. Hennepin County and the
HCHRA reserve the right to accept or reject any or all proposals received as a result of this
application, to negotiate with all qualified proposers, to use any or all proposer ideas and/or
approaches presented, or to cancel in part or in its entirety this application, if it is the best
interest of Hennepin County and the HCHRA to do so. Hennepin County and the HCHRA
may require the entities selected to participate in negotiations to submit any fiscal,
technical, or other revisions of their proposals that may result from negotiations.
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