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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—JUNE 9, 2025 2 standards. Those standards have not yet been agreed upon and are part of the Development Agreement language being negotiated. Alatus has submitted an exemption request to the County on prevailing wage for the vertical residential development. The County has stated that an exemption would require an amendment to the ordinance, and it is not clear if there would be political support for an amendment. Alatus made a verbal request to the JDA to consider an extension to the Preliminary Development Agreement until the completion of the Kimley Horn 90% design plans and then 30 days longer than that. The JDA set a tentative special meeting for June 25t`if needed to receive a recommendation from the JDA Advisory Committee on the PDA Extension. The JDA Advisory met on June 4t'. During this meeting, Alatus reviewed their proposal for Right of Reentry language. Alatus indicated they are trying to add more specificity to get a schedule on points of the reverter and how could that be quantified for the County to know when there is a performance issue. County staff received the proposed language on June 3rd so they had not yet had an opportunity to prepare a redlined response. Alatus scheduled a meeting with the Energy Consultants from Ever-Green and LHB to go over the adopted Sustainability Design Guidelines. The Energy Advisory Committee has not met since the last Council meeting. Advisory committee meetings as they are scheduled, will continue to be posted on the City's website. Councilmember Holden requested further information about what Alatus is asking for when it comes to the reverter. City Administrator Jagoe explained this would be language within the purchase and sale agreement that certain performance and development standards and benchmarks would have to be met or the County could take back land as part of the development agreement. Councilmember Holden stated she understood Alatus now wants to convey all of the land in one phase for this project. She asked where the County stood on this topic. City Administrator Jagoe reported this continues to be discussed between the County and Alatus in order to allow all of the mass and fine grading to be completed at one time. She explained that which development areas will be started first was still being worked through within the development agreement details. Councilmember Monson commented at the JDA meeting that the JDA asked to pull a financial review of Alatus, which was an important request in order to protect the City and County. She indicated in the lessons learned memo from Ryan Companies there were some comments regarding clear height and staff would be reviewing this further to see if a functional change should be made to the TRC. Councilmember Monson explained an extension request was made by Alatus and it was tied to the Kimley Horn design plans. She stated the prevailing wage exemption was a real challenge for the County and could create delays for the project. She further discussed the performance standards that would be written into the reverter language. Councilmember Holden reported Alatus has done this in the past. She indicated the Lake Johanna Fire Station had to follow the prevailing wage standards and she hoped Alatus would