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PARKS, TRAILS AND RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING SEPTEMBER 19 2006 Page 3 of 8 know by the end of this week or early next week who the team will be that will help us move forward. Committee Member Williams asked if that team would be the development team or the planning team. Ms Barton stated it would be more of a planning team, but they are going to encompass landscape architecture, refining the master development plan, traffic assessment, AUAR. Committee member McClung asked if it would function as sort of a consultant for CRR and the City for helping prepare all the documents. Ms. Barton replied that although they are going to be doing a number of things, some will pertain more to the development team, CRR's,needs. Some such as the AUAR is a City piece. Ms. Olson stated that when she went on the staff TCAAP tour, Mike Fix said the Primer Tracer Area is not as polluted as was reported. Ms. Barton replied that when the characterization was done it was found to be not as contaminated as previously thought. CRR is in the process of doing further characterization to fully understand what it is exactly what it is that we are dealing with. Committee Member Williams stated that he read on a bulletin from the Mounds View School District explaining their reasons for a new levy. They emphasized that the MVSD is losing children because the changing demographics of the school district. I think TCAAP is going to be important because it will bring new families into this area and help the school district to be healthier. He realizes it is not something that will happen next year or the year after that, but there is a lot, regionally that is riding on TCAAP and not just Arden Hills. Ms. Barton added it would help in a number of ways. Single family detached homes will bring in new families. Town homes and condos will help people from Arden Hills and surrounding communities who are empty nesters who want to stay in the area but don't want to stay in their larger homes,therefore freeing up their larger homes for families to move into. 5. CITY COUNCIL UPDATE Council Liaison Larson provided the Committee with the following City Council Update: • We have seen one change since the purchase offer was submitted. Ryan Companies will be the managing partner in negotiations instead of Rehbein. Rehbein is still part of the development team, but whereas in the past Rehbein has been the principle spokesperson, Ryan is now playing a more prominent role. • A couple meetings ago, the Council approved a six percent levy, an increase of 2% over last year. It is not a final for this year, but that is where the majority of the Council is at right now. Whatever we certify to the county this fall, we cannot raise it any farther, we can only drop it. We will take the final action in December. • 2006 PMP in Ridgewood is underway. We approved an assessment roll at our last meeting. I think it was the first time we used our new assessment policy. I think the change was a good one, but the circumstances pointed out some things that we need to reexamine. Some people brought up issues that I think were not thought through all the way in the assessment policy. We talked last night about going back to take a look at the policy. • Location of County Road E trail has been approved for the north side. • The preliminary plat of the master plan for the old city hall site was approved. This is the second time around for the proposal by Royal Oaks, who want to develop an office park there. It has been some changes since the application that was submitted the first time around last year. We expect to have a closing sometime in October. • Filing for candidacy has closed. There were four filings for Council and two for Mayor. He and Councilmember Pelligrin will not run this fall.