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througfl the City aeting as a conElait. In 2002 the U.S. Army declared 774 acres of property as excess ( this includes the primary 455 acre development parcel, the Wildlife Corridor, the uorth primer tracer area and the Rice Creek Corridor ). This declaration started a process of disposal which eventually resulted in the City stating their desire to redevelop the property through what is know as an early transfer process. This process will trausfer the property from the U.s. Army, through the City acting as a conduit, to the private market. The net result is the City acting as a controlling agent, between the U.S. Army's sale of the property to a development group, resulting in establishing maximum control on environmental- cleanup, land use, architectural design, creation ofrecreational amenities, preservation of wildlife areas, and developing a project that maximizes the tax base that can be shared by all of the community. The alternative would be a future sale on the open market that does not involve the City. At that time the City would be in a reactive position and would only have land use control, but little influence in creating the plan as envisioned in the "TCAAP Framework Vision." 2. The City's involvement at this time guarantees the highest level of clean.up on the TCAAP property and accelerates the time period when clean-up will occur. The inclusion of residential development assures maximum clean-up based upon State regulations. If the U.S. Army were to sell this outside of the early transfer process it could create a scenario where minimal levels of clean-up are required if extensive warehousing or other types of industrial development occurred. Another scenario would be the U.S. Army selling only portions of the properly and holding some of the more polluted parcels far into the future until their budgets allow final clean-up. 3. The development of the TCAAP properly, at the level envisioned in the Framework Vision process, is the culmination of the communities' goals and visions for the past ten years. Some of these efforts include: In 1994 Congressman Bruce Vento called for a special task force to review the entirety of the 2,200 acre TCAAP site culminating in the "Vento Plan." . In 1998 the City adopted modifications to the City's Comprehensive Plan, stating guidelines on how the community wanted the TCAAP properly to be developed. Page 2 of5 l\EarthIPJanningIMisc FileslEDClexecutive summary - Copy with Council and EDC Strikeouts and Bold Text.doc . . .