2019-036 Identifying the Need for Livable Communities Transit Oriented Development Funding and Authroizing an Application for Grant Funds CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2019-036
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local Housing
Incentives Account Program for 2019 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore
eligible to apply for LCA Livable Communities Demonstration Account and Tax Base Revitalization
Account Transit Oriented Development (collectively, "TOD") funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets TOD purposes and
criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the Metropolitan Livable Communities
Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to adequately manage
an LCA-TOD grant; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as stated in
the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges TOD grants are intended to fund projects or project components
that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for TOD development or redevelopment elsewhere
in the Region, and therefore represents that the proposed project or key components of the proposed
project can be replicated in other metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan Council's
Livable Communities TOD initiative during each funding cycle and the Metropolitan Council has
determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to eligible projects that would
not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, after appropriate examination and due consideration, the
governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the
proposed Artspace TOD Project(s) to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the TOD Project component(s) for which Livable Communities TOD funding is
sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonably foreseeable future; and
(b) will occur within the term of the grant award (two years for Pre-Development grants,
and three years for Development grants) only if Livable Communities TOD funding is made
available for this project at this time.
3. Authorizes its City Manager to submit on behalf of the City an application for Metropolitan
Council Livable Communities TOD grant funds for the TOD Project component(s) identified
in the application, and to execute such agreements as may be necessary to implement the TOD
Project on behalf of the City.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 16th day of April, 2019.
By:,
son Gadd, Mayor
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk