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ARDEN HILLS PLANNING COMMISSION - FEBRUARY 2, 2005 10 through a special Master Advisory Panel over the past two years. If approved by the . Planning Commission, it is the desire to have the Council review the same during the month of February. Staff views that it is important to have an "official vision" as part of the working toward the goals of having an offer to purchase letter, to the General Services Administration, finalized by May/June of this year. The key item of the Plan, as stated through the resolution, are as follows: 1) The adoption of the Framework Plan will establish the City's official land use vision f()r the TCAAP property. It is also stated that this blueprint may undergo changes as final decisions are made on various transportation issues, additional information is secured regarding contamination issues and the economics of the project are more detailed. 2) Thc Plan adopts thc philosophy of the City Council's TCAAP Goals and Vision that was adopted on January 25,2004. 3) The Plan will go through changes as part of the AUAR process, Comprehensive Plan and Zoning tcxt and district amendmcnt process. 4) Thc north to south roadway that connects the "J-r' interchange area to County Road I "is predicated on interchangc alterations on County Road 1. If this does not happcn, the City will nced to considcr altemative north/south connections which could include thc Wildlife Corridor arca. 5) The "north primcr tracer area," which is labeled "SpOlis Facility," is still under discussion as to how this area will be uscd. There are obvious issues associated with it, such as not having access, and the issues of economics . associated with clean-up on a potcntial non-tax paying property. 6) Issues associated with proper levels of density, dcsign and amenity considcrations will all be addrcssed through the Planning Commission as part of the Phase IV planning process. He stated based on adoption of this plan by thc Planning Commission, this item will be schcduled for the City Council's February 14,2005 meeting. Commissioner Zimmerman inquired if the City had considercd the impact the proposed new homes would have on the school district. Mr. Clark replicd that issue would bc something thcy would bc discussing. Commissioner Zimmemlan noted the schools were almost at capacity at this time and asked what thcy would do with any new students. Mayor Aplikowski replied this had bcen discussed and the City and school district was aware of this issuc. Chair Sand stated he was positively surprised that they had come to this point and he believed they have made a lot of progress on this and thanked staff or their hard work. He belicved this would bc a positive developmcnt for thc City. Commissioncr Holmcs asked if thcrc had ever been a compmison done betwecn density and development in the surrounding area. Mr. Clark stated thcy needed to f<.)cus on . whcrc they were going to go from herc. Hc indicated they would not bring back thc master planning group, which was initially dcsigned to put this plan togcther. Hc noted the next part got into the implementation and the next step would go back to the Planning Commission. . Hc indicated therc was a proccss they would be following. He noted onc of thc issues thcy would need to discuss was thc issue of density. Hc indicatcd onc of the