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. . . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 28, 2005 3 April for a May Planning Commission meeting, Staff was in the proeess of preparing for an April neighborhood meeting. Councilmember Larson asked with respect to the indemnifieation was it tied to remediation procedures that took plaee, or was it a continuing obligation on the part of the purehaser and was it eontinuing in the future if the property ehanged hands - what would happen to the indemnifieation. Mr. Clark replied he believed that would be a question for the City Attorney and he was not eomfortable answering this. MOTION: Couneilmember Larson moved and Couneilmemher Grant seeonded a motion to approve the Purchase Agreement for the Old City Hall Site, The motion earried unanimously (4-0), 7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. TCAAP Framework Vision Mr. Clark stated on Mareh 23, 2005, the City Council held a lengthy diseussion on issues relating to the adoption of the TCAAP Framework vision, Part of the diseussion eentered on how Phase IV Planning and other eomponents ofthe TCAAP proeess will unfold so that more speeifie questions ean be answered. He summarized the list of issues Couneil ereated to be memorialized for future diseussions, as well as other items noted that did not relate directly to the TCAAP Framework Vision, MOTION: Couneilmember Larson moved and Couneilmember Grant seeonded a motion to approve Resolution #05-25, Approving TCAAP Framework Vision dated Mareh 28, 2005, Councilmember Holden stated she would vote for this beeause she believed it was possible the City eould do this, but she also believed there would be a eost to the City and she believed they were going forward with this just to get TCAAP developed. Councilmember Larson stated this was one deeision they were making in a long series of deeisions and this one was very important beeause they were adopting a vision so people eould look at this property and see something other than abandoned buildings and eonerete pads, He believed the vision would ehange over time, but it had some themes that were noteworthy including: seeing the site eleaned up, seeing a north/south eonneetion between Highway 96 and County Road I, seeing a gradation of uses from eommereial to the residential, seeing a wildlife eorridor retained, having a eenter for the eommunity, and seeing some new parks with water features, He stated this was exciting beeause there was a vision for the area, He thanked the Advisory Committee in assisting with the development of this vision, he thanked John Shardlow at DSU, he thanked the City Staff in partieular Miehelle Wolfe and Seott Clark for all oftheir work they have done on this. He also thanked Mayor Aplikowski as well as the former Mayor Probst for all of their hard work. He aeknowledged the role of the late Congressman Vento for his vision as to what this was going to look like and how it was going to turn out.