RES 2012-08 - 14895RESOLUTION NO. 2012 -08
A RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD) FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING
APPLICATIONS FOR GRANT
WHEREAS the City of Fridley is a participant in the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act
( "LCA ") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2012 as determined by the Metropolitan
Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for LCA Livable Communities Demonstration
Account and Tax Base Revitalization Account Transit Oriented Development (collectively,
"TOD ") funds; and
WHEREAS the City has identified proposed projects within the City that meet TOD purposes
and criteria and are consistent with and promote the purposes of the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan
development guide; and
WHEREAS the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to adequately
manage an LCA TOD grant; and
WHEREAS the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as
stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges Livable Communities TOD grants are intended to fund
projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for TOD
development or redevelopment elsewhere in the region, and therefore represents that the
proposed projects or key components of the proposed projects can be replicated in other
metropolitan -area communities; and
WHEREAS only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities TOD initiative during each funding cycle and the Metropolitan
Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to eligible
projects that would not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding; and
WHEREAS cities may submit grant applications for up to three TOD Demonstration Account
projects and up to six TOD Tax Base Revitalization Account during each funding cycle, but,
using the city's own internal ranking processes, must rank their projects by priority so the
Metropolitan Council may consider those priority rankings as it reviews applications and makes
grant awards.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and consideration,
the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the
proposed projects to occur at the sites indicated in the grant applications at this particular time.
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2. Finds that the TOD Project components for which Livable Communities TOD funding is
sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably
foreseeable future; and
(b) will occur within the term of the grant award (two years for Pre - Development grants, and
three years for Development grants, one year for Cleanup Site Investigation grants and three
years for Cleanup grants) only if Livable Communities TOD funding is made available for these
projects at this time.
3. Ranks the TOD Project funding applications, according to the City's awn internal priorities, in
the fallowing order:
3a. TBRA Grant to acquire and remediate contaminated conditions of site at 6101 University
Avenue (farmer CITGO Site).
3b. TOD Grant to provide supplementary funds for the necessary bikeway /walkway along Main
Street and over 694, in conjunction with the Transit Enhancement (TE) Grant Application
previously submitted.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS
6TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2012.
SCOTT J. LUND - MAYOR
ATTEST:
DEBRA A. SKOGEN !`CITY CLERK