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Resolution No. 22-185
Resolution Approving a Modification to Tax Increment Financing
Plan for the Zarthan and 16th Street Tax Increment Financing District
in Connection with Pooling for Affordable Housing
Whereas, the City of St. Louis Park (the “City”) previously established Redevelopment
Project No. 1 (the “Project Area”) and adopted a Redevelopment Plan therefor, as amended
(the “Redevelopment Plan”). The City and the St. Louis Park Economic Development Authority
(the “Authority”) have also established the Zarthan and 16th Street Tax Increment Financing
District (the “TIF District”), which is a redevelopment TIF District, within the Project Area, and
adopted a Tax Increment Financing Plan for the TIF District (the “TIF Plan”), pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.174 to 469.1794, as amended (the “TIF Act”);
Whereas, in connection with making an election to authorize certain expenditures for
affordable housing pursuant to Section 469.1763, Subdivision 2(d) of the TIF Act, the City
desires to amend the TIF Plan for the TIF District to provide for administrative changes to the
budget set forth therein (the “Amendment”);
Whereas, pursuant to Laws of Minnesota 2021, First Special Session, Chapter 14, Article
9, Section 5 (the “Special Law”), the City and the Authority are authorized to transfer tax
increment accumulated for housing and development purposes under Minnesota Statutes,
Section 469.1763, subdivision 2(b) or (d), to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund es tablished by
the City.
Whereas, the Amendment does not increase the total estimated tax increment
expenditures, amount of bonded indebtedness, or capitalized interest, or make any other
changes that would require a new public hearing pursuant to Section 469.175, subd. 4 of the
TIF Act.
Now, therefore, be it resolved as follows:
1. Findings for the Adoption of the Amendment. The Council finds that the
Amendment is intended to carry out the objectives of the Redevelopment Plan for the Project
Area, to create an impetus for the construction of decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons
of low and moderate income by better utilizing blighted, polluted and underutilized land and
enhancing the tax base of the City, and to otherwise promote certain public purposes and
accomplish certain objectives as specified in the Redevelopment Plan, as modified, and in the
Amendment.
The Council hereby ratifies and confirms the findings made in connection with the
establishment of the TIF District.
2. Election to Authorize Certain Expenditures for Affordable Housing. In accordance
with Section 469.1763, Subdivision 2(d) of the TIF Act, the City and Authority may elect to
increase by up to 10% the permitted amount of expenditures for activities located outside the
geographic area of any tax increment financing district, provided that the expenditures (a) be
used exclusively to assist housing that meets the requirement for a qualified low -income
building, as that term is used in section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code; (b) not exceed the
qualified basis of the housing, as defined under section 42(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, less
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the amount of any credit allowed under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code; (c) be used
to: (i) acquire and prepare the site of the housing; (ii) acquire, construct, or rehabilitate the
housing; or (iii) make public improvements directly related to the housing; and (d) to assist
owner-occupied housing that meets the requirements of section 469.1761, subdivision 2. The
Council hereby elects to authorize utilizing up to 35% of the tax increment from the TIF District,
less any amount utilized for administrative expenses, for such housing expenditures as set forth
in the Amendment. A summary of the modified intended uses for the TIF District is attached as
Exhibit A.
3. Approval of the Amendment. The Amendments are hereby approved in
substantially the form presented to the City and on file in the office of the Economic
Development Director. City staff, advisors and legal counsel are authorized and directed to
proceed with the implementation of the Amendment. City staff is hereby directed to file a copy
of this resolution and the Amendment with the Taxpayer Services Division of Hennepin County,
the Office of the State Auditor and the Commissioner of Revenue.
Reviewed for administration: Adopted by the City Council December 5, 2022
Kim Keller, city manager Jake Spano, mayor
Attest:
Melissa Kennedy, city clerk
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Exhibit A
City of St Louis Park, Minnesota
Zarthan and 16th Street TIF District
TIF Plan Budget Summary
Original Amendment No. 1
December 20, 1999 December 2022
SOURCES
Tax Increment 13,500,000 13,500,000
Interest 110,000 110,000
TOTAL 13,610,000 13,610,000
USES
Land/Building Acquisition 5,000,000 275,000
Site Improvements/Preparation 610,000 610,000
Construction of Affordable Housing - 4,725,000
Utilties 100,000 100,000
Other Public Improvements 200,000 200,000
Administrative Costs (up to 10%)1,000,000 1,000,000
PROJECT COSTS TOTAL 6,910,000 6,910,000
Interest 6,785,000 6,700,000
PROJECT AND INTEREST COSTS TOTAL 13,695,000 13,610,000
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