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. . . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES JULY 26, 2004 6 with any current legislation. He indicated it was important the City did not lock itself into old legislation. He noted if they were granting an extension it was important to be looking at current data, such as current traffic analysis, etc, and they should build that into some criteria for extensions, Mayor Aplikowski asked if 48 months was a reasonable time period to obtain a final plan, Councilmember Larson stated he was comfortable with 48 months, as long as the City Attorney's recommendations were part of the conditions of granting an extension, Councilmember Aplikowski asked ifthey wanted to look at a 36 month time period, She stated she liked the 36 month time period. Councilmember Rem stated she did not have a strong preference for either 36 or 48 months, but she agreed they needed to ensure that applicants realized when applying for extensions, there might be one or more reasons that had come to pass where they would no longer get the City's pernnSSlOn, Mr. Filla stated based upon this discussion, staff could come back with a draft of recommendations He stated right now one of the things that did not discourage people from submitting applications before they are ready to develop was because of the unlimited extensions and ifthe City had a certain end date, the applicant would know they needed to be serious about submitting an application, He stated he liked the idea of having an end date, However, Council also needed to realize that there would be exceptions to end dates, Councilmember Larson stated he wanted applicants to realize there might be a price to be paid when requesting extensions, such as the laws changing and the development no longer having Council's approval. Mr. Filla stated this process would apply more to PUD's rather than variance requests. He indicated this would apply to long-term projects and not the smaller residential applications, He suggested they have some type of an Extension Agreement signed by both the City and applicant. He stated this would clearly indicate what would be required of each party, Councilmember Larson requested staff to develop language for a PUD that the applicant would not move beyond a concept plan until there are firm plans to build the development. Couucilmember Grant stated he believed they would have the same issues they have right now even with a concept plan, Councilmember Larson agreed they would have the same issues, but Council would not be approving a project when it was not ready to be built. B. Karth Lake: Approve Appointment of Board Members Mr. Siddiqui stated in September, 2003, the City Council established the Karth Lake Improvement District and adopted its By-Laws, The District would have a Board of Directors