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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL — APRIL 10, 2023 22 updates. Should Council want to move this forward, Staff will work with Kimley Horn on obtaining a proposal for future consideration. Councilmember Holden asked if the AUAR was being updated or if the scenarios were changing. City Administrator Perrault reported it was his understanding the AUAR would be updated, the scenarios would not be changing and the maximum build out of 2500 units would not be changing. Further discussion ensued regarding how TCAAP would impact Highway 96 and Hamline Avenue. Mayor Grant questioned why the AUAR was being updated when it did not expire until 2024 and none of the scenarios were being changed. City Administrator Perrault commented the benefits were there was movement on the project and the updated AUAR would provide post COVID traffic information and would affirm decisions being made on the development. Mayor Grant questioned if the AUAR updates should wait until after the thumb property develops. City Administrator Perrault stated he would contend that the space on the thumb property would fall in line with campus commercial trip generations, which would fall in line with the AUAR update. Councilmember Holden indicated she did not believe now was the right time to update the AUAR either. She did not anticipate the thumb property would house a corporate campus, which meant the parcel would have a significant change that would impact the rest of the property. She questioned why the City would not want to know what was going to happen on this property before updating the AUAR. Councilmember Rousseau stated she would be interested in knowing what the AUAR looks like at this point. She supported staff working with Kimley-Horn to draft a proposal. Councilmember Fabel reported the Councilmembers who were appointed by this Council to serve on the JDA were in agreement with City Administrator Perrault that the AUAR should move forward this year. He believed this was the right way to proceed and he supported staff s recommendation. Councilmember Monson believed staff should not have an open checkbook, but rather the plan was to update the AUAR. She indicated the updated traffic information would be essential to the JDA. She supported this item moving forward in 2023. Mayor Grant questioned if Councilmember Fabel or Councilmember Monson knew the anticipated density on the TCAAP parcel.