LCDA &TOD Development Grant Sponsorship Application - 2025

Please complete the following information about your project. If you are unable to complete this online form, an alternative format can be provided. This City sponsorship application is due no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2025.


The $750 application fee must be received at CPED offices prior to the application deadline. Fee must be paid by check payable to the City of Minneapolis.


Please deliver your check addressed to:


Linnea Graffunder-Bartels

CPED

505 4th Ave S #320

Minneapolis, MN 55415


Checks delivered by hand or by courier must be delivered to the third floor secure drop box.


Important: You cannot save this form once started. Please use this guide to help you prepare the application.


If you have any questions about this sponsorship application, please contact Linnea Graffunder-Bartels at 612-673-5102 or linnea.graffunder-bartels@minneapolismn.gov


For reasonable accommodations or alternative formats please call 311 at 612-673-3000. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to call 311 at 612-673-3000. TTY users can call 612-263-6850. Para asistencia 612-673-2700, Yog xav tau kev pab, hu 612-673-2800, Hadii aad Caawimaad u baahantahay 612-673-3500.

DEVELOPER INFORMATION

PRIMARY CONTACT INFORMATION

Identify and provide contact information for the person that will be the primary contact for this project.

Mr./Ms./Mx.*

PROJECT TEAM

Do women, people of color, and/or indigenous people have at least a 51% ownership stake in your development team?

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How was the project team developed? Was an effort made for the team to be reflective of and responsive to those under-represented and most impacted by this project? Does the project team have a direct connection to the project area, or the community being served by the project?


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SITE INFORMATION & EXISTING CONDITIONS

Is this site City-owned?*

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Is there an existing structure on the site?*
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Is the site in a Metropolitan Council defined TOD area?*

Go to the LCA Project Data Profile Mapping Tool and view the TOD Grant Area layer to determine if the project is in a TOD area.

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PROJECT INFORMATION

What is the scope of this project?

Please describe how your project enhances existing or creates new:


•    Housing choice and new jobs

•    Connections between uses, such as between housing, jobs, and parks via transit, pedestrian, and bike infrastructure

•    Public realm amenities and public art

•    Environmental and climate resiliency through use of green building, site design, landscaping, or/and stormwater systems

•    Community building through building design, programming, and/or service provision

•    Economic mobility, economic stability, and/or wealth creation


If this project is part of a multi-phase project, limit the description to that which will occur during this phase.



Limit to 500 words.

Existing City Funding

Has this phase of the project been awarded funds through another City-sponsored program?

Proposed Land Uses

Please enter the gross floor area of each land use listed below.

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PROJECT READINESS

Site Control*

What level of site control do you have?

Project Timing

Please select all the approvals this project has received.

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FUNDING REQUEST & FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

Enter the funding request for LCDA/LCDA-TOD Development.


The City will select the program to which projects apply.

Applicants need to complete the Sources and Uses Tables. You will upload the completed version of this document at the end of this form.

GRANT-FUNDED ACTIVITIES AND OUTCOMES

Please complete the following section for the grant-funded activities for which you anticipate requesting funding. Each program has a Program Essentials Guide that identifies eligible and ineligible activities, please reference the guides for additional details about grant-funded activities.


LCDA Program Essentials


TOD Program Essentials

Please select the activities for which you will be requesting funding.

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Describe the project elements and outcomes that will be funded through this grant.

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PROJECT OUTCOMES

The following section quantifies and describes the overall project outcomes for this project, including housing units and employment.

Housing Outcomes

Unit Tenure

How many ownership or rental units will this project create or retain/preserve?

New Market-Rate and Income-Restricted Units

How many income-restricted units will this project create or retain/preserve? How many market-rate units? Please enter the number of units by size of unit in each affordability bracket.


To qualify as an affordable unit in the City of Minneapolis, a project's income-restricted units must have a 30-year affordability term. Under the City's Unified Housing Policy, housing projects receiving LCDA/LDCA-TOD pass-through funding must have at least 20% of the units affordable to households earning 60% of area median income (AMI) for a minimum of 30 years. Go to the Income Limits webpage to find the current income and rent limits.


Enter the number of units by affordability level and unit size below.

Employment Outcomes

Enter the number of full time equivalent new, retained, and living-wage jobs below.

The Metropolitan Council defines a living-wage job to be those that earn at least 185% of the poverty guideline for a family of four, which is currently $59,500/year.

PROJECT PROCESS

How is the project responsive to the culture and needs identified by the communities/populations it will impact? Who will benefit from the project, now and in the future? How has your project included culturally relevant and responsive planning and design to best meet the needs of future project users?


Limit to 250 words.

How has your team planned for meaningful community engagement? How is your engagement plan responding to the community demographics and development history of the project area? How will public engagement plans include those historically left out of community engagement and give those participants power in the process (e.g., communities of color, first generation immigrants, non-English speaking residents, persons with disabilities)?


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