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Resolution Approving Big Picture Project and Endorsing Its Recommendations
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Whereas the City of Saint Paul has developed both citywide goals around the preservation and construction of affordable housing, and specifically identified the maintenance of affordability along the Green Line Light Rail corridor in the Central Corridor Development Strategy, which has been adopted as part of the City’s Comprehensive Plan; and
Whereas the City of Saint Paul believes that the investment in the Green Line/Central Corridor Light Rail Project is a wonderful opportunity to realize economic development and revitalization of the corridor, but also believes that this new vitality must include the preservation and continued construction of housing units that will be and remain affordable to residents of all incomes; and
Whereas the City of Saint Paul wants to prevent displacement of current residents, and mitigate the impacts of anticipated growth on land values and rents through specific, targeted action to help current residents stay in their homes and to ensure that new housing built along the corridor includes a healthy component of units that will be affordable to low and moderate income households; and
Whereas the City of Saint Paul values the racial, ethnic, and income diversity of the neighborhoods along the Green Line/Central Corridor, and seeks through its housing policies and goals to maintain and reinforce our community’s strength through that continued diversity; and
Whereas the City of Saint Paul, represented by Councilmember Russ Stark, Deputy Mayor Paul Williams, Mayor’s Senior Policy Advisor Nancy Homans, as well as Department of Planning and Economic Development staff has participated heavily in the Big Picture Project working group, in order to develop a specific set of goals and strategies around the preservation and construction of affordable housing along the Central Corridor/Green Line; and
Whereas the Big Picture Project, facilitated by Twin...
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