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Tim Gladhill, City of Ramsey September 26, 2019 Page 5 prioritized (by affordability level, size, location or type — whatever the City would be most likely to support). • Municipalities may issue housing revenue bonds to support affordable housing preservation and new construction. The Plan needs to identify whether the City is likely or unlikely to issue housing bonds, and if so, for what types of housing. • Tax Increment Financing and Tax Abatement to meet housing needs is not considered. • Proactive site assembly to create sites for affordable housing is not considered. • Ways the City could support/preserve its existing manufactured housing are not considered. This might include: o Including manufactured housing as an allowable use in land use and zoning districts assigned to the existing manufactured home community. o Supporting a local notice of sale or first look provisions to provide residents time to consider cooperative ownership if/when the community becomes available for sale. o Engaging with the manufactured housing community to ensure infrastructure and other City service needs are being met. Advisory Comments • Pages 38 and 125 state that planning for the City's allocation of affordable housing need is a requirement of Livable Communities Act (LCA) participation. The City's allocation and requirements to plan for it are part of the Metropolitan Land Planning Act requirements for all Cities, regardless of LCA participation. Furthermore, on page 125 the Plan states that "the City of Ramsey will need to provide an additional 499 units by 2030." This should be amended to state that the City must plan for 499 affordable units between 2021 and 2030. Staff recommend amending the language accordingly. • Staff recommend a matrix or implementation table that lists identified housing needs (existing housing needs identified in the Plan and the allocation of affordable housing need at the three affordability levels), as well as available tools that could meet those needs, and provides policy direction, or consideration, of how the City would use those tools to meet the listed needs. • While Table 33 identifies the number of acres anticipated to develop in each of the three Mixed Use districts, in the corresponding Map (Figure 7), Mixed Use is shown as a singular category. Staff recommend identifying the low, medium, and high density categories within the Mixed Use district on the Future Land Use map in a manner consistent with the acreages noted in Table 33. Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area (Jim Larsen, 651-602-1159) The Plan is incomplete for the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area (MRCCA) section. The MRCCA section of the Plan has been reviewed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff. As noted in the DNR's September 12, 2019 letter, the City will need to satisfy all required items, before the DNR can issue its conditional approval and before the MRCCA section can be considered complete.