2020-058 Resolution Electing to Participate in the LHIACITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2020-058
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEARS 2021 THROUGH 2O30
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 Hopkins:
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 Ran e Life-C cle Housin Goal
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3. Will prepare and submit to the Metropolitan Council a plan identifying the actions it
plans to take to meet its established housing goals.
Adopted this 4th day of November, 2020.
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By: Jason Gadd, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk