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HRA Meeting <br />Minutes Saturday, April 21, 2012 <br />Page 9 <br /> <br />1 <br />Discussion ensued on whether this is the time to prioritize rental licensing and whether there was <br />2 <br />sufficient City Council support for such a program; pending final report of the CURA study and student <br />3 <br />research for the City on rental licensing models and best practice options throughout the entire <br />4 <br />metropolitan area, anticipated to be completed by May with recommendations brought forward to the <br />5 <br />HRA; with explanation by Ms. Kelsey of the State of MN Court system in assigning a Trustee or third <br />6 <br />party management company to bring properties back into compliance with codes, and abatements <br />7 <br />applied to those properties before being turned back to the owner and/or management firm. <br />8 <br /> <br />9 <br />There was HRA consensus supporting this option for third party management versus eviction to address <br />10 <br />ongoing rental housing issues. <br />11 <br /> <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />those foreclosed homes, with 60% indicating some form of reinvestment, providing a substantial <br />15 <br />investment in bringing the housing stock into code compliance and being revitalized; short sales versus <br />16 <br />uent <br />17 <br />water bills providing resources for them (e.g. Rondo Land Trust) and efforts to assist them when <br />18 <br />experiencing financial difficulties; and whether the HRA could pick be aware of and purchase <br />19 <br /> <br />20 <br /> <br />21 <br /> HRA consensus in addressing and targeting blight as a high priority for single-family homes, <br />22 <br />through pocket infill and encouraging the entire neighborhood through one home as an example; <br />23 <br />and serving to emphasize the success of the HRA in housing improvement efforts in the SE section <br />24 <br />of Roseville and single-family homes as well. <br />25 <br /> Consider blight in all strategies to address blight in the overall community, whether single-family, <br />26 <br />multi-family, commercial or in areas for redevelopment. <br />27 <br /> <br />28 <br />Economic Development <br />29 <br /> Commercial Redevelopment <br />30 <br /> Blight issues and if condemnation was the tool to use (e.g. park blight long-term issue at the <br />31 <br />corner of County Road B-2 without trees) <br />32 <br /> <br />33 <br />Once areas were identified, further refinement and combination of the strategies was discussed, along <br />34 <br />with opportunities, as follows. <br />35 <br /> <br />36 <br />Single-Family Housing <br /> <br />37 <br /> Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) <br />38 <br /> Value notion of turn/buy housing stock <br />39 <br /> Life cycle/life style housing marketing campaign (Living Smarter) <br />40 <br /> Continue to market everything in the Roseville Community all amenities (PRIORITY) <br />41 <br /> Cross-partnerships with other governments/commissions <br />42 <br /> Pocket neighborhoods becoming demonstration neighborhoods <br />43 <br /> Individual single-housing <br />44 <br /> <br />45 <br />Discussion included the success of the NEP and the need to continue that; determine how the pocket <br />46 <br />neighborhoods fit into the NEP and not limiting it to owner-occupied or rental housing; programmatic <br />47 <br />options such as forgivable loans for home modifications or mini grants to an entire neighborhood for <br />48 <br />their revitalization on how to make a better community; and support for consideration of numerous <br />49 <br />envelope). <br />50 <br /> <br />51 <br />Further discussion included actively looking at the value quotient, (e.g. why should someone leave New <br />52 <br />Brighton to buy a rambler in Roseville?) and how to use the Living Smarter campaign to turn the entire <br />53 <br />housing stock for the community, but not necessarily specific to housing; reference to a book entitled <br />54 <br /> <br />