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HRA Meeting Minutes – Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Page 6 1 significant for them in attracting other adjacent homes in the neighborhood to invest in their 2 properties and increase the overall value. Ironically, Ms. Raye advised that this had proven 3 true for them with housing, as well as for commercial properties. 4 5 Members thanked Ms. Raye for the helpful and thorough information provided from these 6 interviews. 7 8 Strategic Planning Survey Data Summary - Center for Policy, Planning and Performance 9 Of the eleven (11) perspectives, roles in the community included City of Roseville Department 10 Head, Housing Developers, Social/Human Service Providers, School/Educators, both through 11 high school, and post high school; elected officials, realtors, HRA Board members, Ramsey 12 County government representatives; housing advocates; and employers. 13 14 Ms. Raye reviewed the rankings and various filtering options used in evaluating the survey 15 responses, filtered by stakeholder perspective. Ms. Raye noted that “neighborhood 16 revitalization and maintenance” had more variables than the other categories depending on 17 who was responding. Ms. Ray advised that linking housing development with economic 18 development showed at the highest ranking across all perspectives. Some individual notes of 19 interest included: 20 “Housing for Specialized Needs” was only ranked in the top seven by developers, with 21 other perspectives not ranking quite that high. 22 The “Advocates: Education/Human Services” perspective put rental needs higher than in 23 other perspectives. 24 The Government perspective, both elected officials and department heads, appeared to be 25 more intrigued by intergenerational connections than other groups. 26 Realtors and Employers perspectives provided a more practical and business-oriented 27 perspective and awareness of housing needs. 28 29 Barriers: (17-20 responses) costs related to upgrading current older housing stock; 30 connectivity/walkability; high cost of new development; lack of availability and bias against 31 rental housing, density; need for partnerships; demographic changes; upgrade infrastructure to 32 support new density/housing; school responsiveness/quality. 33 34 Opportunities: continue loans/services to homeowners; select blighted residential and 35 commercial sites and invest where families want to live; pursue more public/private 36 partnerships; green revolution and infill renovation; market demand for rental housing; 37 intergenerational housing and life cycle housing; affordable housing: strong partners, quality 38 management. 39 40 Some Innovative Ideas/Areas of Interest: 41 Low interest loans to purchase foreclosed homes – Woodbury, MN HRA 42 Neighborhood level redevelopment 43 Redevelopment for multi-family housings/strive for higher valued housing that exceeds 44 average home value to provide options to single-family housing that could keep residents 45 here, or attract new residents 46 Create more multi-family housing around city hall campus area (e.g. where single families 47 homes are on the east side of Lexington Avenue) would be great adjacent to the park; 48 could be a nice HUB; build out County Road C in a more robust manner, treating it like a 49 Main Street 50 Communities are looking at energy improvements 51 Expand role of HRA into EDA; staff and resources and expertise better utilized; develop 52 new community center 53 Sidewalks 54 Intergeneration, mixed use development