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3/5 Business and Community Development Application • Part I Community Needs Statement I Name of Community/Applicant City of Arden Hills The City of Arden Hills is a second ring suburb and is located in the Northern sector of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Arden Hills encompasses approximately 9.4 square miles within Ramsey County. The City of Arden Hills is approximately 10 miles North of the downtowns of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and 13 miles North of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The City of Arden Hills is within 15 miles of over 18 colleges and universities and 50 technical and business schools. The current population of Arden Hills is estimated to be 9,426 persons (Metropolitan Council, April of 1994). The Northerly 2,370 acres of the City is the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCA_AP). The City of Arden Hills, but for TCAAP, is approximately 95 percent fully developed. CPI is located on 48.85 acres, in a corporate campus setting, with no visibility from Interstate 694, Lexington Avenue, or Hamlin Avenue. CPI is the largest employer in the City of Arden . Hills, with 1,777 employees (DIED, Community Profile). CPI constitutes 6.98 percent of the City's total tax capacity, 12.32 percent of the City's CommerciaUIndustrial tax capacity, and 2.85 percent of the City's water utility fund. CPI is currently experiencing difficulty in recruiting qualified employees for its manufacturing workforce. If CPI were to relocate significant amounts of their employees to their other facilities rather than consolidating and expanding their operations in Arden Hills, then the City would face a significant economic impact. Also, it would be safe to assume that future consolidations would not occur in Arden Hills, which would have a long term negative impact on the viability of the Arden Hills campus. Given the limited nature of and the competitive nature for corporate users, Arden Hills would face extreme difficulty in attracting a new tenant for this facility. The City of Arden Hills is committed to protecting and enhancing the viability of its corporate campus community. The accomplishment of this goal will require additional resources from a variety of sources. To that end, the City of Arden Hills requests the assistance of DIED in retaining and expanding the operations of CPI. Lastly, the City of Arden Hills considered the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for this project. However, the increase in value to the Control Data building was not of a sufficient amount to warrant the use of TIF in this phase of the project. The City of Arden Hills will consider the use of TIF for qualifying improvements in future phases of this project. 2A