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e . . ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 28, 2005 3 April for a May Planning Commission meeting. Staff was in the process of preparing for an April neighborhood meeting. Councilmember Larson asked with respect to the indemnification was it tied to remediation procedures that took place, or was it a continuing obligation on the part of the purchaser and was it continuing in the future if the property changed hands - what would happen to the indemnification. Mr. Clark replied he believed that would be a question for the City Attorney and he was not comfortable answering this. MOTION: Councilmember Larson moved and Councilmember Grant seconded a motion to approve the Purchase Agreement for the Old City Hall Site. The motion carried unanimously (4-0). 7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. TCAAP Framework Visiou Mr. Clark stated on March 23,2005, the City Council held a lengthy discussion on issues relating to the adoption of the TCAAP Framework vision. Part of the discussion centered on how Phase IV Planning and other components of the TCAAP process will unfold so that more specific questions can be answered. He summarized the list of issues Council created to be memorialized for future discussions, as well as other items noted that did not relate directly to the TCAAP Framework Vision. MOTION: Councilmember Larson moved and Councilmember Grant seconded a motion to approve Resolution #05-25, Approving TCAAP Framework Vision dated March 28,2005. Councilmember Holden stated she would vote for this because she believed it was possible the City could do this, but she also believed there would be a cost to the City and she believed they were going forward with this just to get TCAAP developed. Councilmember Larson stated this was one decision they were making in a long series of decisions and this one was very important because they were adopting a vision so people could look at this property and see something other than abandoned buildings and concrete pads. He believed the vision would change over time, but it had some themes that were noteworthy including: seeing the site cleaned up, seeing a north/south connection between Highway 96 and County Road I, seeing a gradation of uses from commercial to the residential, seeing a wildlife corridor retained, having a center for the community, and seeing some new parks with water features. He stated this was exciting because there was a vision for the area. He thanked the Advisory Committee in assisting with the development of this vision, he thanked John Shardlow at DSU, he thanked the City Staff in particular Michelle Wolfe and Scott Clark for all oftheir work they have done on this. He also thanked Mayor Aplikowski as well as the former Mayor Probst for all of their hard work. He thanked the late Congressman Vento for his vision as to what this was going to look like and how it was going to turn out.