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. Memo to Mayor and Council August 8, 2002 Page 2 of3 2. Phase Two: Issue Identification, Visioning, Goals, and Policies 3. Phase Three: Alternatives, Development, Evaluation, Selection, and Refinement. 4. Phase Four: Plan Preparation 5. Phase Five: Plan Implementation Near the conclusion of each phase, there will be a presentation to the Council. This step has been incorporated to allow the Council to make a "go or no go" decision prior to beginning the next phase. In addition, the proposal contemplates the establishment of an Advisory Panel. Generally speaking, the Advisory Panel presented for your consideration represents a broad range of stakeholders. See the attached Advisory Panel Diagram for additional information. Prior to formally convening the Advisory Panel, it is anticipated that the Council will establish some parameters on their scope of review (i.e. the "Vento Plan" provides the context for more detailed planning etc. . .). Initially the Scope of Services Agreement suggested that the planning be accomplished within seven months. Since we may not have the necessary environmental information to begin Phase Three for six months to a year, references to time should be disregarded. In addition, the scope of work has been evaluated by the Development Team and they are in concurrence with what has . been proposed. Finally, staff would like to solicit the Council's input on possibly incorporating the area north of Highway 96, West of Highway 10, and East ofI-35W (manufactured home park, two businesses; and several single family homes) into the planning study at some point in the future. From staffs perspective, there is an opportunity to create transportation and land use linkages between this area and TCAAP. While this would represent additional project expense, it would be substantially less to do the work now with the benefit of land use, transportation, and market analysis being done in conjunction with TCAAP. Fundin~ As currently constructed, the Scope of Services Agreement for TCAAP Land Use and Infrastructure Planning services is estimated to cost $483,777. Seventy-five thousand dollars would be funded through the Met Council grant while the balance would be funded through reimbursement by the Development Team as outlined in the Interim Development Agreement. Prior to the execution of the Interim Development Agreement, the project would be funded from the $75,000 Livable Communities Demonstration Account Opportunity Grant provided by the Metropolitan Council. . As an aside, there may be an opportunity to minimize expenses if we can access GIS data previously developed for the National Guard. Depending on intergovernmental cooperation and data quality, there are a number of other ways that we can potentially minimize expenses as the planning proceeds. However, at this time we have contemplated a full scope to properly account for the work that would otherwise need to be done.