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Authorizing the Department of Planning and Economic Development to submit applications to the Department of Employment and Economic Development for Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grants and to the Metropolitan Council for Tax Base Revitalization Account Program for the 745 Cleveland Avenue, Fillmore Avenue, former Sholom Home, and University Avenue Inc (former Lexington Library) sites.
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WHEREAS the City has identified site investigation and contamination cleanup projects within the City that meet the purposes and criteria of the Department of Employment and Economic Development's Contamination Cleanup and Investigation program and the Metropolitan Council's Tax Base Revitalization Account program; and
WHEREAS the City of Saint Paul is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local Housing Incentives Account Program for 2015 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for funds under the Tax Base Revitalization Account, and the projects described in the grant applications are consistent with and promote the purposes of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS the City finds that the required site investigation and contamination cleanup will not occur through private or other public investment within the reasonably foreseeable future without either Contamination Cleanup and Investigation or Tax Base Revitalization Account grant funding; and
WHEREAS the City represents that it has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding for the activities for which Contamination Cleanup and Investigation and Tax Base Revitalization Account funding is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for cleanup completion and states that this representation is based on the following reasons and supporting facts:
• The City of Saint Paul has no gener...
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