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City Council
Action Request Form
Meeting Date
8/10/2016
Department
Community Development
Agenda Category
Consent Agenda
Title
Comprehensive Plan Grant Funding Application
Staff Recommendation
Adopt Resolution No. 2016-XXX authorizing staff to submit an application for a Local Planning
Assistance Grant for $32,000 to the Metropolitan Council.
Budget Implication
N/A
Attachments
Council Memo
Resolution
TO:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Charlene Stevens, City Administrator
FROM:
John M. Burbank, Senior Planner
DATE:
August 5, 2016
RE:
Planning Assistance Grant
Background
The City of Cottage Grove is eligible for $32,000 in grant funding from the Metropolitan
Council. These grants are provided through the need-based Local Planning Assistance
Grant Program.
Discussion
The available funding is being provided to help communities offset some of the direct
costs to prepare the required 2040 Comprehensive Plans, which are due in December
2018. There are no specific funding matches for this grant program.
Recommendation
Adopt the resolution authorizing staff to submit an application for a Local Planning
Assistance Grant for $32,000 to the Metropolitan Council.
RESOLUTION NO. 2016-XXX
A RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR FUNDING TO COMPLETE
THE 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND AUTHORIZING
AN APPLICATION FOR PLANNING ASSISTANCE GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City of Cottage Grove must review and update its comprehensive plan
as required by the “decennial” review provision of Minnesota Statutes section 473.864, subdivi-
sion 2; and
WHEREAS, on April 27, 2016, the Metropolitan Council adopted need-based eligibility
criteria for awarding available local planning assistance grant funds and established maximum
grant amounts for eligible grantees to help grantees review and update their comprehensive
plans as required by the “decennial” review provisions of Minnesota Statutes section 473.864,
subdivision 2; and
WHEREAS, the City is an eligible city, county, or town in the metropolitan area as defined
in Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
WHEREAS, planning assistance grant funds will be made available to eligible applicants
subject to terms and conditions contained in Metropolitan Council grant agreements.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the City Council of the City of Cottage Grove, County of Washington, State of
Minnesota, authorizes its City Administrator to:
1. Submit on behalf of the City an application to the Metropolitan Council for Local
Planning Assistance grant funds for the decennial review and update of the City’s
local comprehensive plan required under Minnesota Statutes section 473.864; and
2. Execute on behalf of the City a grant agreement with the Metropolitan Council for
planning assistance grant funds.
Passed this 10th day of August 2016.
Myron Bailey, Mayor
Attest:
Joe Fischbach, City Clerk