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<br />1 . Oppose measures that would mandate that cities provide sufficient regulatory relief to . <br />2 ensure that a specific percentage of units in new housing developments are affordable at <br />3 particular income pricing without direct subsidy or cross-subsidies or that cities must <br />4 adopt accessory dwelling unit ordinances. <br /> <br />5 . Refrain from restricting, eliminating, or proscribing local authority to adopt and carry <br />6 out land use plans, activities, and regulations. <br />7 <br /> <br />8 LE-9. Community Land Trusts (AB) <br />9 <br />10 Issue: The steeply increasing price of land available for housing development <br />11 is a growing concern throughout the state. Action is needed -to create more permanently <br />12 affordable owner-occupied housing by maximizing the cost-effectiveness of taxpayer <br />13 investments. MHFA had one-time authority to assist cities to fund the establishment of <br />14 community land trusts for affordable housing. <br />15 <br />16 Response: The 2002 Legislature should support a land trust capacity-building <br />17 program and provide capital start-up funds so that community land trusts can offer gap <br />18 financing, interest-rate write-downs, predevelopment rmancing, and rmancial underwriting <br />19 costs. <br />20 <br /> <br />21 LE-IO. Municipal Telecommunications Authority (AB) <br />22 <br />23 Issue: Cities must have the authority and the tools to put in place the necessary . <br />24 infrastructure, educational resources, applications, and skill-sets to become connected <br />25 communities. Several court decisions demonstrate that provisions of the 1996 federal <br />26 Telecommunications Act requiring removal of barriers to entry for "any entity" apply directly to <br />27 cities' interest in gaining clear authority to create municipal telecommunications utilities in order <br />28 to provide advanced services al the local level. <br />29 <br />30 Response: The Legislature and state agencies must act to make it possible for cities <br />31 to provide affordable access to advanced telecommunications and information services by: <br />32 <br /> <br />33 . Allowing a city to become a telecommunications and infonnation service provider upon <br />34 approval of the city council and to extend services beyond city cooperate boundaries <br />35 upon authorization of the Municipal Public Utilities Commission. <br /> <br />36 . Derming a strategic leadership role for cities by eliminating barriers to municipal entry. <br /> <br />37 · Supporting efforts by cities to bring advanced services to local residents and businesses, <br />38 and to encourage collaboration among communities and institutions to expand <br />39 education, health care, and economic opportunities at the local and regional level. <br /> <br />40 . Allowing cities and municipal utilities to join with other entities, such as cooperative <br />41 associations, investor-owned utilities, or other municipal utilities or power agencies, to <br />42 provide telecommunications and infonnation service. <br />43 <br /> <br />: . <br /> <br />12 <br />