HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-072 CCRMember Lawrence -Anderson introduced the following resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION NO.2023-72
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center is a participant in the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act ("LCA") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2023 as determined by the
Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for LCA Livable Communities
Demonstration Account Transit -Oriented Development grant funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets LCDA -
TOD purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes 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 LCDA Transit -Oriented Development 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 LCDA grants are intended to fund projects or project
components that can serve as models, examples, or prototypes for LCDA development or
redevelopment elsewhere in the Region, and therefore represents that the proposed project or key
components of the proposed project can be replicated in other metropolitan -area communities; and
WHERES, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities LCDA 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 grant funding.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
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
following proposed LCDA project to occur at this particular site at this particular time:
African Career, Education and Resource (ACER) Innovation and Catalyst Center (ICC)
2. Finds that that LCDA Project component(s) for which Livable Communities LCDA 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,) only if Livable Communities
LCDA funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Authorizes the City Manager to submit on behalf of the City an application for
Metropolitan Council Livable Communities LCDA - TOD grant funds for the LCDA
proj ect components identified in the application, and to execute such agreements as may
be necessary to implement the LCDA Project on behalf of the City.
Julv 10.2023
Date
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Mayor
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member:
Butler
and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof.
Butler, Graves, Jerzak, Kragness, Lawrence -Anderson
and the following voted against the same: None.
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
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