HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 77-162 - Requesting Revocation of the Charter of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships - 12/20/1977 rlt/klr 1/6/78
CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 77-162
RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER
OF THE NATIONAL CORPORATION FOR HOUSING PARTNERSHIPS
WHEREAS, the City of Eden Prairie took affirmative action to
encourage the construction of low and medium income housing in
the City, and
WHEREAS, Windslope Associates, the National Housing Partner-
ship and the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships repre-
sented themselves to the staff members, City Council and Mayor of
the City of Eden Prairie as responsible organizations prepared to
• construct the requisite housing in an acceptable manner, designing
the housing units as quality units with the use of materials and
colors that would blend effectively into the neighborhood where it
vould be constructed, and
WHEREAS, the City officials, staff and residents of the area
relied on the assurances and representations of the proponents, and
WHEREAS, the Windslope Apartments were constructed in total
disregard of these representations resulting in units that even
before construction was completed became a cause of intra-community
conflict, and
WHEREAS, the proponents and especially the National Corporation
for Housing Partnerships have steadfastly refused to agree to even
the modest request that within a reasonable number of years the
exterior walls would be repainted as they originally represented,
and
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WHEREAS, the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships
has been totally unresponsive to requests from the City Council
for a joint review of the problem and in most instances has been
an unidentifiable entity that cannot be reached except through
legal counsel after commencement of legal action:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota as follows :
1. It is the position of the City of Eden Prairie that the
National Corporation for Housing Partnerships should have
its corporate charter revoked and should be denied the
benefits accruing to it under the status conferred upon
it by Act of Congress.
2. The Mayor and City Manager are authorized and directed
to forward copies of this resolution to all Minnesota
Congressmen and Senators and to Ralph Nader, Citizen
Lobbyist Organizations, with a letter requesting that
appropriate action be taken.
ADOPTED by the City Council on this 20th day of December ,
1971 .
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W fg enzel, Mayor
ATTEST:
'Trn D. rane, . City Clerk
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