2012-058 Livable Communities Application for GrantCITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2012-058
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES TRANSIT
ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING APPLICATIONS FOR
GRANT FUNDS
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, as follows:
WHEREAS the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act ("LCA") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2012 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 proposed TOD Projects within the City that meet
TOD purposes and criteria and are consistent with and promote 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 Livable Communities 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 TOD Projects or key components of the proposed TOD Projects 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 TOD
Projects that would not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding; and
WHEREAS cities may submit grant applications for up to three TOD Demonstration
Account Projects and up to six TOD Tax Base Revitalization Account Projects during each
funding cycle, but, using the city's own internal ranking processes, must rank their TOD Projects
by priority so the Metropolitan Council may consider those priority rankings as it reviews
applications and makes grant awards.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and
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 TOD Projects to occur at the sites indicated in the grant applications at this
particular time.
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2. Finds that the components of the TOD Project 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, one year for Cleanup Site Investigation
grants and three years for Cleanup grants) only if Livable Communities TOD
funding is made available for these TOD Projects at this time.
3. Ranks the TOD Project funding applications, according to the City's own internal
priorities, in the following order: (List grant applications here; the total number of
Development and Pre -Development grant applications from the City cannot exceed three
and Tax Base Revitalization Account grant applications cannot exceed six. Funding
requests for both TBRA and LCDA grant funds listed in the same application will be
counted as separate applications for purposes of the limit of numbers of applications.)
Priority
TBRA TOD Project Names
Grant amount
requested
1
Gallery Flats — Park Nicollet/Lutheran Digest site
$114,000
LCDA TOD Project Names
Grant amount
requested
1
8th Avenue Ramp
$2,000,000
2
Gallery Flats —Park Nicolet/Lutheran Digest site
$276,500
3. Authorizes its City Manager to submit on behalf of the City applications for Metropolitan
Council Livable Communities TOD grant funds for the TOD Project components
identified in the applications, and to execute such agreements as may be necessary to
implement the TOD Projects on behalf of the City.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins on this 21st day of August, 2012.
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Eug ne J. axwell, Mayor
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Kristine A. Luedke, City Clerk