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I I I I I I I I '1 I I I I I I I I I CASE # METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES By: Ryan R. Schroeder, City Administrator Background: At the December 12, 1995 meeting, Council adopted a resolution declaring goals for life- cycle and affordable housing. At that meeting it was discussed that the Met Council had set a benchmark for Ramsey of a 75/25% owner/renter mix with 33-35% of all housing as non-single family. Council adopted a 90/10 mix with a 10% goal for non-single family within that portion of the community in the MUSA and not currently platted or having received preliminary plat approval. Council directed that this be revisited in January. Enclosed is a map of the southeast portion of the community which includes the entire urban service area. Within this area are sixteen different tracts of land that are currently not developed. These tracts have an estimated 594 acres of developable land. As the corresponding chart shows, it is projected that on this land can be built 1,337 single family homes at densities of 2.25 units/acre. We have attempted to project where, within these tracts, it is most likely that housing densities greater than 2.25/acre could reasonably occur. In so doing, we are projecting 362 units of medium density housing (far right column). If that occurs, our non-single family housing stock would increase to 613 units of a total 6,295 housing units. This would equate to a total of 9.74% of total housing within the entire community or 23.5% of housing units yet to be platted within the MUSA. Currently, Ramsey has 251 units classified as non-single family (mobile home, duplex, townhome, or apartment). That is 5.28% of our total housing stock. The above potential increase to 9.74% would continue to place Ramsey well below the norm of other Metro Area communities, as would the goal set at the December meeting. The current City Council goal (passed in December) appears to be approximately 140 additional non-single family units which probably results in a total of 391 non-single family units community wide, or 6.32% of the total build-out of 6,188 housing units at some point in the future (all of this assumes no future growth outside of the MUSA and no expansion of the MUSA). Current Council Goal: 10% MUSA growth which equates to 6.32% Citywide Potential Goal: 23.5% MUSA growth which equates to 9.74% Citywide Proposed Council action is to either confirm your previous action or to amend the December action pursuant to the above. Council Action: Motion to set a housing goal for non-single family housing pursuant to the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act that the City will encourage the construction of non-single family housing in the amount of % of future housing development within the Urban Service Area. Reviewed by: City Administrator CC: 01/09/96 /jmt