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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—MAY 26, 2015 10 City Administrator Klaers stated that he believed that the Mayor's presentation to the County Board on the City's proposal for TCAAP was very well-received. Councilmember Holden commented that she would like to decrease the maximum density within the NB-3 Zoning District from 8 units per acre to 6.75. She was in favor of approving a 95% efficiency for future TCAAP developments. Councilmember Holden stated that she was concerned with how the City would meet the County's 20% affordable housing requirement. She questioned how this goal would be met unless the City was to offer TIF. Mayor Grant understood that the County believed "there was lots of money out there" to assist with subsidizing affordable housing projects. Mayor Grant questioned how the density within the TCAAP neighborhoods was calculated. Community Development Director Hutmacher reviewed how staff had calculated the density, noting that it was a gross acres net of parks, regional stormwater infrastructure, and arterial roads. She reported that the neighborhood streets were included in the calculation. Councilmember Holmes inquired if the Council had to approve the 95% efficiency requirement when the density levels had already been set. Community Development Director Hutmacher clarified that staff was responding to a request made by Councilmember Holden with regard to the 95% efficiency requirement. This led to the proposed density decrease in the NB-3 Zoning District. Councilmember Holmes believed that this was a waste of time and that the slight reduction of 40 units was not worth additional Council discussion. Councilmember Holden commented that it was important to her because without the adjustment, the Council would be locked into 1,476 units on TCAAP instead of 1,431. Mayor Grant added that it may be to the advantage of future developers to have slightly larger lots, but noted that there were still a large number of 50-foot lots. He supported Councilmember Holden's proposed change. Councilmember Holden asked what kind of deviations within the land use plan would be reviewed by the City. City Attorney Jamnik advised that the Council reserve the authority to review significant deviations from the adopted plan. He discussed Section 3.3 within the TRC and commented that the Regulating Plan Map and TRC were to be approved by the Council. He explained that because this framework exists, any significant deviations from the original plans should be reviewed by the City Council. He reviewed language that he had drafted last week that speaks to this matter noting that it would be written into the Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This would ensure that the Council would be able to review any large-scale deviations.