HomeMy WebLinkAbout13-079 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2013/05/20RESOLUTION NO. 13-079
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR
SOUTHWEST LRT STATION AREA ZONING STUDY
WHEREAS, the City of St. Louis Park 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 Onented Development
(collectively, "TOD") funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed TOD 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 TOD Projects or
TOD 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 Project or key components of the proposed TOD 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 TOD Projects that would not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT 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 prionties
for the proposed TOD Project 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, one year for Cleanup
Site Investigation grants and three years for Cleanup grants) only if Livable
Communities TOD funding is made available for this TOD Project at this time.
3. Authorizes its City Staff to submit on behalf of the City an application for
Metropolitan Council Livable Communities TOD grant funds for the TOD Project
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component(s) identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as may be
ecessary to implement the TOD Project on behalf of the City.
Re Administration:
City Manag - r'
Attest:
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City Clerk
Adopted-
ouncil May 20, 2013
Mayor