Minnotonka hasn't experienced encampments like large encampments that we um hear about, but we want to be proactive. We don't want to be reactive.

I just don't want us to be criminalizing people who have mental health who may not accept the um help because of their mental health.

We want to be fair and kind to people, but we also um want to um um we want to we want to have the opportunity to ensure that we can change a situation that is not the way it should be.

if we're coming to an enforcement conclusion and there is literally not a bed for a person in the metro to go to, we're not taking that. We're not doing that. That's that's not the right thing to do if you don't provide a choice.

I lean on giving everybody the most opportunity to get their situation um, improved slightly with our help and giving people time and opportunity. And even if it's on the front yard, I think we have to we have to have some grace for people.

Portland has done a great job on compassion. They've done a horrible job on enforcement, and I think there's a difference.

because we can't think of any other way to provide ownership, affordable ownership in the city without trying this.

I'm looking for wear. I'm looking for how's it holding up? It's actually holding up pretty well. It's very airtight. The windows are very nice. Her heating bills are low.

if we're going to, um, write down the land or, you know, give the land, however, you know, we do it. Um, and you said covenant. What does the covenant look like? And is it going to be another land trust type deal where you put the 99-year lease on the land? Is it or if someone purchas it, would it be a way that they can also make sure that they're getting some generational wealth in something like this?

I mean, I I favor this because we have to try new stuff and we have to figure out how to how to do that.

how can we encourage folks to preserve their existing housing as affordable moving forward for the next generation?

I believe that we all have a responsibility to each other. And as I've gotten older, maybe because I've had more time and more comfort, more ability, I've taken that sense of responsibility more seriously.

it is a legal document that a in this case a property owner could execute that would place some sort of restriction on their their bundle of sticks that's associated with real property ownership in some fashion. So restricting one of their uh real property rights in some fashion. It runs with the land u and so it applies u against subsequent purchasers of the land.

the cheapest affordable housing we can come up with is naturally occurring affordable housing. So, anything we can do to create incentives to to preserve affordable housing makes sense.

should we be advocating perhaps a change in state law for tax abatements. Could Could there be a way to look at tax abatement scenarios where homeowner you you know 10 years worth of tax abatements in exchange for you know your house being put into a program to some attractiveness...

my thought process is always going to be how can we influence programs? If we're funding the programs, then we should be able to influence them.

I said, well, we're not subsidizing the city's not in these HAS. There's no city money going into it. We're the conduit for financing.

we basically saved 188 units of housing that probably would have gone away in some way, shape, matter, form had we not done that. And, you know, this is a beautiful tool.

I have a couple of residents um who live next to um the short-term rentals... the problem is is that, you know, it's kind of the small houses. kind of tied in are are being sold off and then being um purchased by investment groups or people and then being rebuilt as as this. And it's you know caused a lot of trouble and issues in in communities around the lake.

I would like there personally to see some sort of policy... either a 30-day or the homestead, what Excelsier is doing.

A registration or a license is is registration different so that they you're not under a legal obligation to grandfather and like you would with some sort of, you know, zoning entitlement, land use entitlement that runs with the land.

I did put in there, we talked about when during the EIP the uses. So if you caught the little language in there that says you can't replace funding. So like pathways, we can't replace our funding for pathways with that money.