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. . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES JULY 18, 2005 3 Councilmember Grant requested the improvements the developer referred to be put into the PUD as a part of the plan and requested those improvements be documented. Mayor Aplikowski noted this was voluntary on the part of the developer, but she agreed it should be made part of the PUD. Councilmember Holden asked if the building materials being used were standard building materials for the City. Mr. Hellegers reviewed the standard materials and believed these buildings would blend in well architecturally with the commercial and residential areas. He noted the brick and Hardy Board were maintenance free materials, which would add to the quality of the development. He indicated architectural appeal was one thing the developer could take to a buyer to get businesses into the units. Mayor Aplikowski noted Council had a request to have some residents speak to the Council, and if there was anyone that had anything new to add they were invited to speak to the Council. She noted there would be a three-minute time limit for comments. Bobbi Huot, 1468 Arden View Drive, noted change was not easy and they could not stop progress. She stated there was an extreme level of discomfort as to how the Council and Mayor had heard their concerns with this development. She expressed concern about the traffic study and asked who had followed up on the study. She indicated the study did not include two issues - the TCAAP and Guidant developments, which would impact the traffic in this area and that traffic study should have included those developments. She noted there was not a feasibility study done or a hydrology study done. She indicated the Rice Creek Watershed District study was not completed. She stated there were serious water issues in the area. She indicated the citizens needed a level of satisfaction that everything had been done that could be done. She stated there was an environmental issue also including the loss of green space and she requested the City do an environmental study of this area. She noted there was a lot of wildlife in the area. She stated nobody heard at the last meeting from the traffic engineer. She stated the citizens wanted to address these issues with him but he was not available at the meetings. Dick Klick, Arden Hills resident, stated in the studies it referred to this as a residential intersection. He noted Hamline Avenue was not a residential street, nor had it ever been a residential street. He indicated Hamline Avenue was an arterial route between Highway 96 and Interstate 694. He asked if it was not a residential street, but an arterial route, what are the other considerations. He acknowledged there was not an easy answer. He noted the decision was that this area was no longer going to be residential at this end of the City. City Engineer Greg Brown stated the questions predominantly pertains to the radius and from their review, the type of traffic that would traverse between the access and Hamline Avenue would need a 30- foot radius, which was the type of radius that would serve his area well and would serve the traffic increase while a 50-foot radius was not necessary. He noted they were very comfortable with that recommendation. . Mayor Aplikowski acknowledged there was a problem with traffic on Hamline Avenue, but this development did not create the traffic problems and they needed to address the solution to the problem, but stopping the development would not fix the problem of traffic on Hamline Avenue 3