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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 21, 2017 8 Town Center in TCAAP. In the 51% - 80% AMI band, you can only count land uses that have a minimum of six units or more. There is currently not enough land available to accommodate that band. WSB Senior Planner Zweber said staff is proposing amendments to the Future Land Use map, and the Planning Commission has reviewed them. Some of the requirement for the 51% - 80% AMI band could be accommodated if the old City Hall/Public Works site was redesignated from Neighborhood Business to Medium Density Residential, and if the properties south of the existing multi -tenant office building on Cleveland Avenue near the interchange of County Road E2 and I35W were changed from Neighborhood Business to Medium Density Residential. Both of those changes would still leave the City approximately 29 units short of the requirement. However, if the Community Mixed Use units per acre were increased the minimum density to six units per acre, it would only take 5% of that area redeveloped into residential to meet the entirety of the 144 units required. WSB Senior Planner Zweber explained that the Metropolitan Council modified different communities' bands depending on how much affordable housing they have. This requirement is for new units, not existing. And the bands are based on density, not value. Councilmember Holden asked why some of the townhouses in the Hill neighborhood in TCAAP aren't being counted. Senior Planner Bachler explained that they don't count because when the Metropolitan Council was making the determination they are looking at the minimum density required, not the maximum density allowed. In the Hill neighborhood the maximum density is 6.75 units per acre, but the minimum density is less than six units per acre. WSB Senior Planner Zweber asked the Council to look at the Future Land Use Classifications on page 6-9 of the Comprehensive Plan. He noted that all of the residential in TCAAP is Neighborhood Residential (NR). The minimum density is 1.5. So to count the townhomes in the Hill neighborhood, they would have to amend the TCAAP portion of the Comprehensive Plan to break Neighborhood Residential into different types of land use categories. Senior Planner Bachler suggested that they could look at the Community Mixed Use which only allows multi -family residential and possibly increase the minimum density requirement in that zone. WSB Senior Planner Zweber suggested the table would be modified to remove the old City Hall/Public Works property and properties north of Cottage Villa, but leave the Parkshore Driven properties as Medium Density Residential, and add into the table verbiage to match the higher density townhomes that are in TCAAP Redevelopment Code. WSB Senior Planner Zweber stated the next component is Tools. There are five tools that Arden Hills would administer: Development Authorities, Tax Abatement, Tax Increment Financing, Fee Waivers and Adjustments, and Zoning and Subdivision Policies. It was decided to leave the existing language as is.