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Council approves strategic-plan update, directs LAHA spending and backs pooled TIF for St. John’s Woods rehab
Summary
Council approved an update to the Community Development Strategic Plan to account for Local Affordable Housing Aid (LAHA) funds, adopted a one-year LAHA spending plan, and agreed to use pooled TIF funds to finance a siding/window rehab program at St. John’s Woods to preserve LAHA and CDBG reserves.
The Eden Prairie City Council approved an update to the city’s 2023–2027 Community Development Strategic Plan and a one-year spending plan to allocate newly available Local Affordable Housing Aid (LAHA) funds for 2025 priorities.
Community Development Director Julie Klima told the council that LAHA funds were established by the state legislature in 2023 for affordable housing in the seven-county metro and that Eden Prairie received approximately $336,000 in LAHA allocations in 2024. Staff proposed using those LAHA dollars to supplement existing first-time homebuyer and…
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