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JUN-26-9S MON 15:2~ CAMIROS MINN 61282773~9 P.07 ~ - Arsenal Cleanup and Conversion Project (ACCP) . - - ACCP has conducted nearly a dozen public brainstonning sessions intended to solicil citizen input ~ about the future ofTCAAP. Although the ACCP has no "legal" standing in the TCAAP debate, it has made good use of its mailing list and telephone network to encourage meeting attendance. - The City of Arden Hills has donated clerical time to preparing verbatim transcripts of the resulls - of these meetings and intends to consider those results as it proceeds with its own planning effort. ~ Each ACCP session explores the attributes of a good community: low population density, safety, - diversity, good public services and infrastrUcture, a pedestrian-fiiendly environment, recreational opportunities, good regional access, good jobs IlIId clean industry. Many of the assets participants I saw in their communities were also identified by the Task Forc:e: good schools, strong neighbor- hoods, good government, lots of green space. The values that participants felt should guide planning for TCAAP include an open, inclusive process; aeation of many kinds of opportunities; I tal( revenue; elimination of pollution and ammunition; living-wage jobs; preselVaUon of natural resource~ and a long-ranse perspective. Participants do not wanl gambling, military uses, retail saturation, or intrusive transportation routes. Many of the preferred uses are rec:reational - ice , arena, interpretive center, golf course, winter sports - or relate to economic development. This input, which was gleaned from residents of surrounding communities as well as of Arden , Hills, will be invaluable as the Task Forc:e proceeds into development of alternate development scenarios. It also supports the directions being taken by the Reutilization Committee (see below). - Meetings oft/Ie Reutilization Committee , May 20, 1995 , Brian made a short presentation to the Committee on Arden Hills's planning process and handed out the Task Force schedule. Denny asked the Committee to endorse the City's plan if it's similar , to whatever the Committee develops (this is the general expectation). He emphasized that the TCAAP reuse plan is the City's only tool for dealing with the federal government. The Committee's plan will include aU the surveys that have been done (by Moundsview School I District, results due in June. and others); Committee minutes; infonnation provided by Alliant Tech and others; the regional parks wisb list; and the City's plan. Matt Fulton (New Brighton) , suggested that Mr. Vento will need a non-land use list of needed actions -- e.g., mitigation, land disposal staging, legislative steps. The Committee will present their .completed. document before gelting a response from the public. Public meetings will probably be held in August or September, , b~se Vento does not want the Committee's work to extend past October. Molly Grove added that it would take two months to prepare the document, and therefore if the Committee wants to hold public meetings in August the plan would have to be completed in June. She agreed to pull I together everything that was already available and distribute it at the next Commitftle meeting. Mike Fix gave a status report on environmental cleanup. Originally this site was to receive $26 , million in FY '95, but that amount was cut to $2.7 million, then hiked back up to $10-12 million. -. , I