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2.4 The guiding principals of the Roseville's Housing Policy is to provide a variety of housing for all residents, collaborate with other agencies and keep the housing programs small and incremental. The following housing goals will be considered when evaluating current and future housing programs: 1) provide a variety of housing types (owner occupied and rental) that balances affordability, maintains quality of housing and the urban environment, has access to public infrastructure, services and employment and enhances neighborhood viability. 2) improve the quality of approximately 200 existing units which are below the average physical condition and less than 75 percent of the median value of housing units within the community (currently 55 single family and 160 multi-family units). 3) provide housing for all stages of the life cycle such as the needs for entry level housing and more affordable senior housing. Specifically, assist in the provision of entry level family housing to regenerate the community, schools and our neighborhoods. 4) meet the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and support the Local Housing Incentives Program for that purpose. 2.5 The City's participation in the Metropolitan Council's Local Housing Incentive Program provides the City with the eligibility to participate in the Tax Base Revitalization Program, the Livable Communities Demonstration Program, the Local Housing Incentive Account and the Inclusionary Housing Account. 2.6 The City has benefited from that participation with the award of over $471,000 in contamination cleanup funds from the Tax Base Revitalization Account, over $300,000 from the Livable Communities Demonstration Account for mixed use projects and over $700,000 as part of the 1-35W Corridor Coalition under the Livable Communities Demonstration Planning Account. 2.7 Most of the programs the City Council adopted in relation to the Livable Communities Program (LCA) in Roseville were originally approved as part ofthe Vista 2000 (1992-3) and the Comprehensive Plan (annually updated). The focus has always been to use the approved housing section of the Comprehensive Plan as a basis for the LCA program and the Roseville Housing Policy. The city's direction has been to collaborate with other agencies, institutions, the private sector (especially the local banks and development/contractor sectors) and the neighborhoods as our program partners to implement the programs. RCA - Livable Communities 2001 10/23/00 - Page 2 of 3