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Councilmember Johns introduced the following resolution and moved for its adoption: <br />RESOLUTION #16-07-132 <br />RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES TRANSIT <br />ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION <br />FOR GRANT FUNDS <br />WHEREAS, the City of Ramsey is a participant in the Metropolitan Livable <br />Communities Act ("LCA") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2016 as determined by the <br />Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for LCA Livable Communities <br />Demonstration Account and Tax Base Revitalization Account Transit Oriented Development <br />(collectively, "TOD") funds; and <br />WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets TOD <br />purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the Metropolitan <br />Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan <br />development guide; and <br />WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to <br />adequately manage an LCA-TOD grant; and <br />WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations <br />as stated in the grant agreement; and <br />WHEREAS, the City acknowledges TOD grants are intended to fund projects or project <br />components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for TOD development or <br />redevelopment elsewhere in the Region, and therefore represents that the proposed project or key <br />components of the proposed project can be replicated in other metropolitan -area communities; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the <br />Metropolitan Council's Livable Communities TOD initiative during each funding cycle and the <br />Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to <br />eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of TOD grant funding. <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />RAMSEY, ANOKA COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, as follows: <br />1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the <br />proposed TOD Project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time. <br />2. Finds that the TOD Project component(s) for which Livable Communities TOD funding <br />is sought: <br />(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the <br />reasonably foreseeable future; and <br />