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Resolution 099-2006 WHTF "N" RESOLUTION NO. 099 -2006 A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DIRECTING CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE MONROE COUNTY CODE ESTABLISHING IN FAVOR OF MONROE COUNTY OR ITS DESIGNEE RIGHTS OF FIRST REFUSAL FOR PURCHASE FOR ALL FUTURE WORKFORCE/AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS; DIRECTING REQUIRED RELATED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has recently empanelled a Workforce Housing Task Force made up of members from throughout the Florida Keys to address critical housing affordability issues facing the Florida Keys; and WHEREAS, the State of Florida and all local governments in the Florida Keys (each subject to Area of Critical State Concern mandates relating to housing affordability) recognize the need for affordable housing throughout the state and particularly in the Florida Keys where developable land for housing is extremely limited and expensive; and WHEREAS, the challenge of providing affordable housing opportunities in the Florida Keys is one requiring sensible and responsive use of residential unit allocations, including implementation of effective long-term preservation mechanisms, including but not limited to putting in place rights of first refusal in favor of the County with respect to resales of affordable housing assets; and WHEREAS, based upon recommendations of the Monroe County Workforce Housing Task Force and upon the consideration and finding of this Board that these recommendations are sound and merit immediate implementation; now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA that: Section 1: The County Administrator shall have the Monroe County Planning Department present to the Monroe County Planning Commission for public hearing at the earliest opportunity a proposed ordinance amending the County's land development regulations and proposing any necessary Comprehensive Plan amendments requiring that for all affordable/workforce housing created in the future there be reserved in appropriate deed restrictions a right of first refusal in favor of Monroe County, or its designee, to purchase affordable/workforce housing offered for sale at the lawfully established offering price, for a period of no less than ninety (90) days from the date an owner notifies the County or its designee of the owner's desire to sell a property containing affordable/workforce housing, In the event that the County or its designee does not elect to purchase property offered to it pursuant to such right of first refusal, the owner of such property should be free to sell the property to buyers otherwise qualified to own such property and subject to all other affordable/workforce housing covenants of record. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 15th day of February, 2006. Mayor McCoy Yes Mayor Pro Tern Nelson Yes Commissioner Neugent Yes Commissioner Rice Yes Commissioner Spehar Y P-F; BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA \ \ Mayor CHARLES" 0 Y" McCOY A"rTESJ:,})anny L. Kohlage, Clerk -...'i' ~aJ.v.)o. ~)IJ~ Deputy Clerk / Approved as to form: :J: o 0 :z ~ ::0 Z oC'?z rr1;;;-< no r- C) ("') . ~;o"",,1',~ "-, C. -l " -< n . ". :-f:;~ ..,., .-' r- r.;;, J> r; 2 r....:t c:::>> c:::>> 0"\ :x :x:. :::0 .&:- :: '" .. r\) -' ....., ,-- r.., o ." o ::0 ;;0 f71 n o ::0 o