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y,,J Metropolitan Council AA June 25, 2010 Mr. Dean Lotter City Manager City of New Brighton 803 Old Hwy 8 NW New Brighton MN 55112-2792 Dear Mr. Lotter: Ir F b The City of New Brighton previously elected to be a participant in the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act Local Housing Incentives Account (LCA LHIA). Participation in the voluntary LCA LHIA provides the City with the opportunity to compete for grants and loans to support activities that help the City meet its affordable and life cycle housing goals, clean up polluted sites, and support demonstration projects linking jobs, housing and transit. The City's previously adopted LCA LHIA affordable and life cycle housing goals were negotiated with the Metropolitan Council for the period 1996 — 2010. Those goals are indicated in Enclosure A. If the City elects to continue its participation in the LCA, it must establish new affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the next decade (2011 through 2020). As part of the City's recently submitted 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, it acknowledged its fair share of the region's affordable housing need. For the City of New Brighton the fair share number is 137 units over the next 10 years. Although the Council fully supports the need for this total number of new affordable units over the next decade, it also acknowledges the reality of limited funding available to create new affordable housing opportunities. For this reason, the Council asks the City establish its LCA affordable housing goal as a range of 89 to 137 units for the period 2011 to 2020 with the low end of the range representing the number of units that can be accomplished at currently available funding levels region -wide. Regarding the City's life -cycle housing goal to diversify the type and density of housing to meet residents' changing housing needs and preferences, the Council asks the City establish a goal range of 135 to 400 units over the next decade. The low end of the range represents the community's total share of the region's affordable housing need and the high end is the potential number of units permitted by the land use guiding in the City's 2030 Plan Update for medium, high, mixed use, redevelopment, TOD or similarly named residential development, or the total forecasted household growth for the community to 2020, whichever number is less. ww .metrocouncil.org 390 Robert Street North • St. Paul. MN 55101-1805 • (651) 602-1000 • Fax (651) 602-1550 • = (651) 291-0904 A,, Equal 0,p., wntry Emploger