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ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL—DECEMBER 12, 2016 2 Interim City Administrator and Director of Finance and Administrative Services Iverson provided the following update on TCAAP: Meetings • On November 28, 2016, the City Council met in a work session with the Master Development Team to review updated change requests to the TRC from the November 21, 2016 work session and to provide the Council with a final opportunity to raise any other issues or concerns with the development and TRC. Final changes recommended to the TRC and agreed to with the Master Development Team included: o Minimum unit sizes for high density multi-family apartments o Addition to Section 3.3 (f)that the JDA cannot grant flexibility to minimum unit sizes o Removal of Section 3.4—Special Development Plan and process o Changing or adding 10% reduction allowance in Table 3-3 under #2 (Building Form and Development Standards), with the exception that no % reduction was needed for parking garages and porte-cocheres o Adding memory care and skilled nursing to assisted living as permitted uses in TC-2 and TC-3 (removed from TC-I) and removing reference to nursing homes altogether o Removal of senior independent living as a permitted use in TC-1 o Adding the Energy Integration and Resiliency Framework (EIRF)as attachment 8 • On December 7, 2016, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan Amendment, TCAAP Regulating Plan Amendment and TCAAP Redevelopment Code (TRC) Amendment. The amendments to the TRC that were recommended by the City Council after their work session on December 5th were incorporated into the final approvals. Three residents spoke in favor of the amendments at the meeting and no one spoke in opposition. The amendments were approved 5-0. • No project team meetings with Staff and the Master Development Team have occurred since the last TCAAP update on November 28, 2016. Communications • Staff provided articles from the Pioneer Press (December 3, 2016) and Star Tribune (December 8, 2016)related to TCAAP. B. Transportation Update Interim Public Works Director/City Engineer Brotzler reported crews conducted a full plow yesterday after the snow event. He anticipated crews would be out working again tomorrow. Interim Public Works Director/City Engineer Brotzler stated there was a watermain break today off of Arden View Drive within an easement. During the repair of the watermain break 75 homes were without water. It was noted crews had the watermain fixed within several hours and water service was fully restored to these homes. Councilmember McClung indicated he was one of the homes impacted by the watermain break. He sent his thanks to the.Public Works crew for their great work.