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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 06-25-96 ITEM NO: Department Approval: City Manager Agenda Section: Hearings Item Description: Livable Communities Action Plan and Hearing Bgckground 1. By the end of June, 1996, the City of Roseville must submit the city's Livable Cities Action Plan to the Metropolitan Council. The City Council in October, 1995, approved participation in the Liveable Communities Program administered by the Metropolitan Council. This program was mandated by the State Legislature in 1995. The overall metropolitan area goals of the program are to preserve and expand affordable housing opportunities throughout the metro area, connect jobs and affordable housing through location and transit, and assist center cities and maturing suburban communities to clean up sites for future housing and job creating ventures. 2. Most of the programs the Planning Commission and City Council have discussed in relation to the Liveable Communities Program (LCA) in Roseville were originally approved as part of the Vista 2000 (1992-3) and the Comprehensive Plan (1994). The focus has always been to use the approved housing section of the comprehensive plan as a basis for the LCA program. The cry's direction has b en to co laborat with other agencies, institutions, the private sector (c ally +fie local banim and develonment/colatractor e to s) and the neighborhoods as our program partners to implement the program. 3. The staff has met with the Met Council to determine what Roseville's role in the LCA programs should be. Roseville meets or exceed all Met. Council benchmarks (attached) for our community. The course suggested to the City is to continue in the same direction, maintaining and improving the benchmarks and ranges for housing stock and infrastructure, using both numerical goals and descriptive strategies for targets to meet or exceed in the coming years. 1