9A, City - County Joint Powers Agreement for TCAAP

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E. County and City (collectively the "Parties", individually a "Party") desire and intend that redevelopment of the TCAAP Site take place to remediate and eliminate blighting conditions and to make possible and result in significant amounts of New Development to provide employment opportunities, improve the tax base, and improve the general economy of the City, the local community and Ramsey County as a whole. The New Development will include the construction of necessary off-site and on-site transportation improvements such as the Spine Road, as well as internal streets, water and sanitary and storm sewer and other public facilities and other public and private utilities and improvements to be located on the TCAAP Site ( "City Public Improvements" and County Public Improvements", collectively, the "Public Improvements" as defined in Section 1.1). The Parties will develop plans to provide for a mix of residential, commercial, light industrial and other uses utilizing the Public Improvements (collectively, the Public Improvements and the uses proposed for the TCAAP Site comprise the "New Development"). The plans guiding the type of land uses, density, location and timing of implementation of the components of the New Development comprise the "TCAAP Master Plan", as further described in Section 1.1). F. The New Development will take place within the City. The New Development will require the participation of City to complete environmental review for the TCAAP Site as required by law, by means of a process described as alternative urban areawide review ("AUAR"), and application of the City's statutorily mandated planning and zoning authority to develop the TCAAP Master Plan. City will be required to implement its allocated portion of the Public Improvements on the TCAAP Site in a timely manner as identified in the TCAAP Master Plan, and as provided below The effective and beneficial land use planning and guiding of the New Development, consistent with state statutes and regulations, City's comprehensive plan, zoning code and other applicable ordinances, and the ability to recapture City costs incurred in providing its allocated responsibilities for the Public Improvements to serve the TCAAP Site are matters of great interest and importance to City. G. The Parties recognize that their cooperation and collaboration are critical for accomplishing the New Development in a manner that is a timely, cost-effective and efficient use of public resources in order to benefit the City, other local communities and Ramsey County as a whole. H. The Parties intend to exercise their respective authority granted by Minnesota Statutes § 471.59 (the "JPA Act") to establish a joint powers board to be named the "Joint Development Authority" (the "JDA") or such other name as the Parties may determine. The Parties intend that the JDA shall be a governmental entity of the State which is authorized to exercise to the extent permitted by the JPA Act, the general laws of the State of Minnesota , and Laws 2009, Chapter 88, §16 applicable to the TCAAP Site, the common powers of each Party for the redevelopment of the TCAAP Site as a governmental entity of the State. These powers include, but are not limited to, remediation of contamination and elimination of blight, infrastructure construction and financing, comprehensive planning and zoning, and redevelopment and economic development. 2