The Metropolitan Council will hold a public hearing to receive comments on affordable and life-cycle housing goals to be locally adopted by the City of Dayton (additional cities may be added) for the purpose of participating in the metropolitan Livable Communities Act grant program for the period from 2027 to 2030.
The Livable Communities Act (LCA) (Minn. Stat. § 473.254) requires communities to adopt affordable and life-cycle housing goals to participate in the Livable Communities program. Communities electing to participate must establish their goals by city council resolution, and communicate their desire to participate to the Metropolitan Council by November 15 of any year. While communities can choose to participate – or opt out of participation – in any calendar year, the calculation of goals is conducted on a decennial basis for alignment with other decennial measures such as forecasted household growth and share of future affordable housing need.
Background
The Livable Communities Act requires the Met Council to negotiate affordable and life-cycle housing goals with each municipality that elects to participate in the Livable Communities Local Housing Incentives Account and that the Met Council must adopt by resolution, after a public hearing, the negotiated goals.
The Met Council is using the same goals methodology for new communities’ enrollment that was originally negotiated at the beginning of the planning decade. Using this methodology, between 2020-2025, a total of 81 cities adopted their affordable and life-cycle housing goals, which were then adopted by the Council to complete the Livable Communities enrollment process for 2021-2030 participation.
Public Hearing
The Met Council has scheduled an in-person public hearing for 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 16, at the Community Development Committee meeting in Met Council Chambers, 390 Robert Street North, St. Paul, MN 55101-1805.
If you would like to offer public comment at the November 16 meeting, please pre-register by emailing [email protected] or recording a message at 651-602-1500. On request, we will provide reasonable modification for people with disabilities.
Submit a comment
We will receive comments on the Affordable and Life-cycle Housing Goals through 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 17, 2026.
Submit your comment by emailing [email protected], recording a message at 651-602-1500 (TTY 651-221-9886), or mailing comments to 390 Robert Street North, St. Paul, MN 55101-1805.
The full Met Council will review the public comments and consider the goals following the public comment period.
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