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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 80-112 - Activating a Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and For the City - 06/03/1980 46 CERTIFICATION OF MINUTES RELATING TO THE • ACTIVATION OF A HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Municipality: Eden Prairie, Minnesota Governing body: City Council Kind, date, time and place of meeting: a regular meeting held June 3, 1980, at 7: 30 o'clock p.m. at the City Hall. Members present: z&s7-AoA" OS'rLftHd(_ ) Bwaz_yf Rr-aP.¢�-A, Members absent: Documents attached: Minutes of said meeting (pages) : Resolution No. RESOLUTION ACTIVATING A HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN AND FOR THE CITY i I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting recording officer of the public corporation considering the action referred to in the title of this certificate, certify that the documents attached hereto, as described above, have been carefully compared with the original records of the corporation in my legal custody-, from which they have been transcribed; that the documents are a correct and complete transcript of the minutes of a meeting of the governing body of the corporation, and correct and complete copies of all resolutions and other +� actions taken and of all documents approved by the governing body at the meeting, insofar as they relate to said action; and that the meeting was duly held by the governing body at the time and place and was attended throughout by the members indicated above, pursuant to call and notice given as required by law. WITNESS my hand officially as such recording officer this 1/ 14 day of -j u t a , 1980. J D. Frane finance Director-Clerk The Finance Director-Clerk presented an affidavit of publication of the Notice of Public Hearing relating to the proposal to activate a housing and redevelopment authority in and for the City in the ,CO&N k4OAAjti1Z /yG W-C , the official newspaper of the City, once not less than ten days nor more thirty days before the date fixed for the hearing. The affidavit was examined, found to be satisfactory and ordered placed on file with the Finance Director-Clerk. The Mayor then stated that it being the hour specified in the Notice of Public Hearing on the proposal all parties could now express their views with respect to the proposal to activate a housing and redevelopment authority, in response to which the following persons • appeared, were recognized and made statements , summaries of which appear opposite their respective names: Names Summary of Views - Al o R s o.v S,p After all persons who wished to do so had stated their views on -the proposal, the Mayor declared the hearing to be closed. After some discussion, Member 0SrLa,*o4_T then introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. RESOLUTION ACTIVATING A HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN AND FOR THE CITY ` BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota (the City) as follows : Section 1. It is hereby found, determined and declared: 1.1. The Minnesota Legislature has enacted the Housing and Redevelopment Act, Minnesota Statutes , Sections 462. 411 to 462. 711 (the Act) , which authorizes a municipality to activate a housing and redevelopment authority in and for the municipality for the purpose of undertaking redevelopment projects, including the acquisition and improvement of blighted areas or open or undeveloped land. The Act itself created a housing and redevelopment authority in each municipality in the state, but forbade the authority to transact any business or exercise any powers granted by the Act until activated by resolution of the governing body of the municipality. 1. 2. In enacting the Act, the Legislature found that the welfare of the State requires the redevelopment of urban and rural areas which by reason of sociological and technological changes , faulty arrangement or design of buildings and improvements, lack of public facilities, or deleterious land use or obsolete layout inflict blight upon the economic value of large areas, impair the value of private investments , threaten the source of public revenues and decentralize communities to areas improperly planned and- not related to public facilites. The Legislature found that such conditions cannot be remedied by the ordinary operations of private enterprise or by regulation alone, but that local public bodies must be created and authorized to undertake redevelopment where 40 -2- the cost would not warrant private initiative, subject to the declared policy of the State that before public participation is authorized or undertaken it be determined locally that redevelopment cannot be met through reliance solely upon private initiative. Participation by municipalities in redevelopment projects according to a redevelopment plan as provided in the Act was declared by the Legislature to be a public use and purpose for which private property may be acquired and public money may be spent. 1.3. As required by Section 462. 425, Subdivision 2 of the Act, a public hearing was conducted June 3, 1980, on the proposal to activate a housing and redevelopment authority for the City, after publication of notice of the hearing in the official newspaper of the City once not less than ten days nor more than thirty days before the public hearing. 1. 4. This Council hereby declares that there is a need for a housing- and redevelopment authority to function in the City, since there exist deterioriated and substandard areas within the City which cannot be redeveloped without government assistance. • 1. 5. The principal area in immediate need of redevelopment is in the vicinity of the Major Center Area and contiguous areas of the City, the local roads and thoroughfares which are inadequate to handle adequately the flow of traffic. The inadequacy of these roadways has hindered development of open and undeveloped land in the Major Center Area. Because the area contains buildings or improvements and is by reason of faulty arrangement or design, deleterious land use or obsolete layout detrimental to the safety and welfare of the City, this Council finds the area to be a "deterioriated area" and a "substandard area" within the meaning of Section 462.421, Subdivision 11 and Section 462. 425, Subdivision 1 of the Act. The-open or undeveloped land comprising most of the area is blighted within the meaning of the Act by- virtue of physical characteristics of the ground and the present patterns of roadways Which have hindered normal development by private enterprise. Such land is potentially useful and valuable for contributing to the welfare of the City. The specific findings underlying these conclusions are the following: (a) The Major Center area is a 1,000-acre tract identified by the Metropolitan Council and the City as a major diversified center, is -3- -. served by Interstate 494, U. S. Highways 169 and 212, and State Highway 5, making the area readily amenable to development. (b) In 1973, the City Council adopted the MCA Planned Unit Development as an official amendment to its 1968 Comprehensive Guide Plan to provide opportunity for high density commercial, industrial and residential development. In that regard, the City has prepared a master plan for land uses within the Major Center Area, in cooperation with major property owners, the Minnesota Highway Department and the Metropolitan Council. (c) Substantial development interest has been shown in the Major Center Area, and a significant amount of commercial and residential development has occurred in recent years, including construction of the Eden Prairie Regional Shopping Center. Nonetheless, the amount of development has not met the expectations of the City. (d) Patronage of the Eden Prairie Regional Shopping Center and other commercial developments in' the Major Center Area has been hindered by the existing pattern of local roads and thoroughfares. (e) Development by private enterprise of the open or undeveloped land within the Major Center Area would be materially enhanced by the improvement of local roads and thoroughfares to provide local access from the major federal and state highways serving the area. 1. 6. Redevelopment of the open or undeveloped land within the Major Center Area and its vicinity would be significantly more attractive to private enterprise if local roads and thoroughfares were upgraded to provide efficient traffic movement. By their nature, such public improvements, including the construction of roads and bridges, cannot be undertaken without government assistance. Section 2. There is hereby activated in and for the City a housing and redevelopment authority, created as a public body corporate and politic by Section 462. 425, Subdivision 1 of the Act. Said authority shall be known as the Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and for the City of Eden Prairie and shall consist of five -a- commissioners , who shall be persons residing within the territorial boundaries of the City. The commissioners shall be appointed by the Mayor , with the approval of this Council, after this resolution becomes finally effective. Initial appointments shall be for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respectively; thereafter each commissioner shall be appointed for a five-year term; provided that if members of the City Council are appointed commissioners , their terms of office as commissioners may coincide with their terms of office as council members. Upon appointment of the .commissioners and adoption of by-laws, the Authority shall exercise all powers and transact such business as it deems necessary or desirable under the Act. Section 3. The Finance Director-Clerk shall cause this resolution to be published in the official newspaper of the City in the same manner in which ordinances are published. The Finance Director-Clerk is further authorized and directed to file, when this resolution is finally effective, a certified copy of this resolution with the Minnesota Housing Commission. C • r� f. mayor Attest?iinance-T)irector-Clerk The motion of the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Member and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: '0.57-1Z.0 - 0_Tj-,6F 2 f./oZ�T d9,4 u t. Y -5- and the following voted against the same : iv o ti whereupon the resolution was declared duly passed and adopted and was signed by the Mayor , which signature was attested by the Finance Director-Clerk. -6-