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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 11, 2025 7 Rita Trapp said she once had to amend a PUD because someone wanted to change a patio door to windows. Because of the way the original PUD was written, any building change required a public hearing in order to amend it. They are trying to identify what are the changes that are straightforward and don't change the intent. Mayor Grant said maybe someone wanted Honey locust but the developer wanted a Silver Maple. Rita Trapp said one of the things they are seeing on landscaping plans is that they are unable to get the approved tree species. Councilmember Holden said that's fine to put it in writing. She said we have always included "up to the discretion of Staff' in a lot of our contracts. City Administrator Jagoe said typically with a PUD the first condition says if staff deems it a minor change it is allowed subject to staff approval. Rita Trapp said if someone wants to come in five years later and change something they would have to go back. In her example it was many years later. Little changes, like that, would be a lot easier for folks rather than having to go through the whole approval process. Council will see the list of items that staff can approve and decide if anything should be added or taken off that list. Councilmember Weber asked if there are any items they want to touch on. He doesn't think Council comments were captured regarding Data Centers. He knows there was a mixed response at the Planning Commission review and as well as from Council. Jason Zimmerman said that is a hot topic in a lot of cities right now. Cities are understandably interested in them while also wary of the impacts they may have. One of the things that has been discussed is going to those communities that have allowed them and asking what issues they have had and what standards and regulations they have built in. They are not job generators but they are tax base generators. This is a newer topic and multiple cities are asking for guidance on this. Councilmember Weber would like to see how energy and water intensive are they. Not just what standards have been built in. He wants to learn how much more water they are using than a typical commercial business. Is the resource consumption significantly more than any other business? Rita Trapp said that is a topic that could explode. There are so many unknowns. They could probably provide base level language to put in the code and then come back to it. This is important but doing that level of work on a topic that people are not very experienced with would probably be outside of the scope of the zoning review they agreed to. Data centers are not a topic that was even on our radar. Councilmember Weber thinks that should be more defined beforehand. He has no clue how much water they use. If everything is being liquid cooled, what would the impact on our infrastructure be? He would prefer to see those answers before we make a decision, unless the decision is to simply not allow them. Will it have a detrimental impact on the water service to Lexington Avenue?