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• Mayor Aplikowski stated that the bottom line was what was presented to staff, how it was handled by staff, then what is moved forward to Council and finally what Council would approve. She further stated that this was a good start since it provided a broad base for Council to work. Comments should be given to staff and staff would then bring it back to the November I P meeting. Mayor Aplikowski thanked Mr. Bruce Kunkel for his time TCAAP Preliminary Development Agreement- Ms. Wolfe stated that during the update at the regular meeting,Ms. Barton mentioned that work was progressing in the preliminary development agreement update. This item was listed under this work session, but there wasn't anything else to update other than what Ms. Barton had already mentioned during the regular meeting, therefore, this may need to be put on the next meeting agenda. TCAAP Master Planning Process- Mr. Bruce Chamberlain, landscape architect and principal with Hoisen Koegler Group stated that they were a land planning and master planning firm of Minneapolis. They have done a number of projects that have some similarities to the TCAAP project. Their involvement here was with the master plan component, working through the PUD submittal and also coordinating with the City on the comp plan amendment. There were other consultant groups that would be part to the • team as well who were not present, but they were all working together as a team under the direction of CRR. Mr. Chamberlain handed out a cover memo and schedule for a number of components of the project. There were six phases of work that was identified, including the master plan,AUAR and PUD. Highlighted in the memo were a number of ways that Mr. Chamberlain suggested to keep the community involved. A tour of some of the other projects within the twin cities was scheduled for Saturday,November 18th. The focus was to look at a number of projects that were fairly recent around the twin cities area that was relative to the kind of things that may happen on the TCAAP property,both good and bad aspects. The project teams are listed on the first page of the memo. It was anticipated that there would be 50-60 project team meetings throughout the 20 month process from the master plan to the point where things started to happen on the property itself. The project teams consisted of City staff, the development group from CRR, and the consultant teams. The focus would mainly be on coordination, to ensure all teams were communicating and that all bases were covered on all activities that needed to be addressed. Mr. Chamberlain also suggested the creation of an advisory team. This would be a smaller group and it was suggested that they hold 10 meetings, on a monthly basis. The advisory team meetings would be the first step in a two stage process in working with the community. It would be followed up by a City Council/Planning Commission work session, similar to this meeting. There would be about eight of those meetings throughout the 16- month time frame. Mr. Chamberlain suggested going to the public at large in an open • house format a couple of times during that time. The first would be in January, in a town hall 7