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Approved: CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MEETING JANUARY 13, 2014 ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, Mayor Grant called to order the special City Council work session at 9:13 p.m. Present: Mayor David Grant; Councilmembers Brenda Holden, Fran Holmes, Dave McClung, and Ed Werner Absent: None Also present : City Administrator Patrick Klaers; Community Development Director Jill Hutmacher; Associate Planner Matthew Bachler; City Planner Ryan Streff; and City Clerk Amy Dietl 1. AGENDA ITEMS A.Multi-Family Design Standards Associate Planner Bachler reported that the multi-family dwelling design standards were approved by the Council in September of 2012. Included in these standards are requirements for minimum unit sizes. At the Council work session on January 22, 2013, the Council requested that -family dwelling units. Currently, the standards require multi-family dwelling units to be a minimum of 600 square feet, with an additional 100 square feet required for each bedroom. The Council expressed concern that the standards could permit multi-bedroom units that do not provide adequate floor area per resident. Associate Planner Bachler explained that staff has collected information from seven cities in the metro region that have adopted similar minimum unit size standards for multi-family dwelling units. The cities include New Brighton, Blaine, White Bear Lake, Maplewood, Fridley, Coon Rapids and Bloomington. An analysis was completed comparing the average square footage also looked at ten multi-family development projects that have been recently completed or that are under construction in outer- ring suburban communities to evaluate the average sizes currently being built. He reviewed the location of these projects and provided the Council with a summary on the data collected from these projects, along with the minimum size standards for the dwelling units.