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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 11, 2025 30 Councilmember Holden said affordability. Councilmember Weber said he was talking about ADUs. City Administrator Jagoe said the sample policies will be regarding affordability. The ADUs will be an ordinance. Councilmember Weber added that is its own track. City Administrator Jagoe can bring forth samples for both as an agenda item. They will be two different tracks of discussion. Councilmember Monson said it sounds like it's too early. She would rather see Staff not do that work until the Community Development Director is prepared to bring it forward. City Administrator Jagoe that would push this discussion into October. That would give the Community Development Director time to research and bring something to an additional work session in October. Mayor Grant repeated the work session in October would be appropriate for ADUs. Staff confirmed. Councilmember Weber wanted to clarify that the affordability language and policy are happening with HKGi. City Administrator Jagoe clarified they would not be writing the policy. They would just be writing ordinance language. The policy would need to come back separately. Councilmember Monson asked what topics will be discussed on September 29. Discussion ensued regarding availability for a special work session. Councilmember Monson said she would prefer to not do special work sessions. If we are going to have a special work session, she wants there to be a focus. What are we going to talk about? She said Mayor Grant proposed a special work session to get some items off the list. She wondered if there were any topics he would like to see discussed. Mayor Grant thinks we could knock off the feeding of geese, we could do the cannabis discussion, the temporary goat/buckthorn and he thinks we could do the use of City logo policy. City Administrator Jagoe said she noted earlier that the use of City logo policy will be brought back on September 8. Councilmember Rousseau would be fine for Mayor Grant and someone else to form a small committee and work on the geese, goats and the logo policy. They can just bring back their recommendation to the full Council.