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REQUEST FOR HRA ACTION <br />Date: 7-20-10 <br />Item No: 9 b. <br />Staff Approval: Agenda Section <br /> <br />Action Items <br />Item Description: Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (HF0099) <br /> Local Housing Incentives Account <br /> (LCA LHIA) <br />Background <br />The City of Roseville has previously elected to be a participant in the Metropolitan Livable <br />Communities Act Local Housing Incentives Account (LCA LHIA). Participation in LCA LHIA <br />is voluntary and provides the City with the opportunity to compete for grants and loans to <br />support activities that help the City meet its affordable and life cycle housing goals, clean up <br />polluted sites and support demonstration projects linking jobs, housing and transit. <br />The City’s previously adopted LCA LHIA affordable and life cycle housing goals were <br />negotiated with the Metropolitan Council for the period 1996-2010 (Attachment A). <br />If the City elects to continue its participation in the LCA, it must establish new affordable and <br />life-cycle housing goals for the next decade (2011 through 2020). <br />As part of the City’s recently submitted 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, it acknowledged its <br />fair share of the region’s affordable housing need of 201 units over the next 10 years. Based <br />upon the limited resources in creating affordable housing units over the next decade, the Council <br />asks the City to establish a range of 131 to 201 units. <br />Regarding the City’s life-cycle housing goal to diversity the type and density of housing to meet <br />residents’ changing housing needs and preferences, the Council asks the City to establish a goal <br />range of 200 to 500 units over the next decade. The low end of the range represents the <br />community’s total share of the regions’ affordable housing need ant the high end is the potential <br />number of units permitted by the land use guiding in the City’s 2030 Plan Update for medium, <br />high, mixed use, redevelopment, TOD or similarly named residential development, or the total <br />forecasted household growth for the community to 2020, whichever number is less. <br />To make official the City’s decision to continue participation in the LCA, the Metropolitan <br />Council is requesting the City to adopt these new affordable and life-cycle housing goal ranges, <br />by passing a resolution. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Staff recommends that the RHRA recommend to the Roseville City Council to adopt the new <br />affordable units goal of 131 to 201 units and to establish a life-cycle housing goal range of 200 <br />LCA LHIA (07-20-10) -Page 1 of 2 <br /> <br />