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Project Status Memo 4 <br />Arden Hills megaproject approved by city planners <br />Public hearing was the last big step before the City Council's vote on the old Army site. <br />By David Peterson Star Tribune <br />December 7, 2016 — 10:13pm <br /> <br /> <br />A proposed megaproject transforming a former munitions plant site in Arden Hills was approved <br />unanimously Wednesday night by the city’s planning commission. <br />No one opposing the plan for what was once the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, known as <br />TCAAP, got up to speak, and planning commission members were muted in their reactions, in <br />contrast to a City Council that had some tense moments on the issue over several months’ time. <br /> <br />Commissioner Brent Bartel did question the leap to 10 stories from closer to half of that in the <br />city’s original plans for some buildings, but mostly because so many people attending an open <br />house in November commented on it. <br />“Why did this change?” he asked. <br />Developer Bob Lux said that new suburban condo projects have grown rare in recent years <br />because of litigation against developers and contractors, but one way to ensure that problems <br />don’t develop with big multifamily buildings over time is to build them stoutly with concrete. <br />“Concrete construction costs more,” he said, “so it doesn’t become efficient for us to do unless <br />there’s a certain amount of height.” And offering condos means a product that isn’t being offered <br />everywhere. <br />The public hearing and vote of the planning commission is the last major step for the project <br />before the City Council takes a final vote on the master developer’s plan for the 427-acre area. <br />That vote should happen before the end of the year. <br />Based on its past comments, the council would be expected to approve the plans on a 4-to-1 vote <br />— just enough for a project of this magnitude, which needs a supermajority to pass, but short of <br />the unanimity sought by developer Alatus LLC and the city’s mayor. <br />The plans for a new town center, with office space and stores surrounded by neighborhoods <br />laced with parks and trails, have been the subject of intense negotiations. <br />Sticking points have included building heights, the hundreds of planned apartments, and an <br />initial price tag for parks — later whittled back — that one council member dismissed as “way, <br />way too high.” <br />Planning Commissioner Chairwoman Roberta Thompson said she came to the meeting <br />concerned about 10-story buildings, but was struck by what she heard in their defense, including <br />the fact that some parts of taller buildings would be much less than 10 stories.
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