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CHAPTER 577-S.F.No. 1740 An act relating to local government; requiring the metropolitan council to study housing redevelopment and rehabilitation costs and benefits; requiring local governments in the seven-county metropolitan area to cooperate with the metropolitan council for purposes of the study. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. [HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT AND REHABILITATION STUDY.] (a) The metropolitan council shall study and report to the legislature on what standards local units of government should use when evaluating the costs and benefits of housing redevelopment and rehabilitation in the metropolitan area. Costs and benefits must be evaluated with respect to their impact on the price of housing and their impact on the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for low-income persons. (b) The study should consider, at a minimum, the following: (1) the roles of state, federal, and local agencies, as well as the role of nonprofit and for-profit developers in housing redevelopment and rehabilitation; (2) the relative costs and benefits of redevelopment and rehabilitation of rental property and owner-occupied property; (3) the costs and benefits associated with achieving multiple public goals including neighborhood stabilization, neighborhood revitalization, area beautification, infrastructure improvement, correcting blight, recycling housing and land, historic preservation, provision of neighborhood amenities such as open space and playgrounds, provision of social services to properties and residents, and crime prevention; (4) the role of building codes and zoning in housing redevelopment and rehabilitation costs and benefits; (5) the impact on the price of housing of administrative costs, fees, financing costs, acquisition costs, and other nonconstruction redevelopment and rehabilitation costs and benefits; and (6) the impact of current funding mechanisms for housing redevelopment and rehabilitation including tax credits, tax exempt bonding, community development block grants, state loans and grants, and tax increment financing. (c) In studying the costs and benefits associated with rehabilitation and redevelopment, the metropolitan council may use a case study approach utilizing at least three representative housing redevelopment and rehabilitation projects. By July 1, 1995, the metropolitan council shall provide a report to the legislature on the results of the study, including legislative recommendations. Sec. 2. [STATE AND LOCAL SUPPORT.] The Minnesota housing finance agency, the Minnesota office of strategic and long range planning, and all housing and redevelopment authorities in the metropolitan area, as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, shall provide the data and information that the metropolitan council determines is necessary to conduct the study required in section 1. When requested by the metropolitan council, those local units of government that have adopted zoning ordinances or a building code must provide the council data and information on the impact of those zoning ordinances or building codes on housing redevelopment and rehabilitation projects within the jurisdiction of the local unit of government. Sec. 3. [EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION.] This act is effective the day following final enactment and applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. Presented to the governor May 2, 1994 Signed by the governor May 5, 1994, 3:35 p.m.
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes