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City of Arden Hills - Comprehensive Plan - DRAFT <br />5. TWIN CITIES ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT (TCAAP) PROPERTY REDEVELOPMENT <br />Goal: Develop TCAAP in a way that accommodates a mix of land uses that is <br />sensitive to the natural environment, economically sustainable, and a benefit tg the Deleted: comics Unto <br />FOmmUnlly Deleted: wdh <br />Deleted. existing neighborhoods in <br />5.1 )ntroduction AmenHnls <br />Deleted:. <br />In 1941, the federal government started construction on the Twin Cities Army Deleted: ¶ <br />Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) which occupied about 3.7 square miles (2,370 <br />Formatted; Bales and Numbering '. <br />acres) in what was then Mounds View Township. During a 16 month period <br />Vietnam conflict and the first Gulf War. At its peak the Droperty had 40 miles of <br />Formatted: Font: (Default) Aral <br />electric and telephone wire 83 miles of sewer. 37 miles of road and railroad <br />It rack, and employed more than 25.000 people. <br />The entire TCAAP property was included in the Arden Hills municipal bordw <br />when the City incorporated in 1951, and it now occupies approximately the <br />Deleted: The former Twin Cities <br />northern one-third of Arden Hills. The TCAAP property was bounded by <br />Amy Ammunition clam (TCAAP) <br />Highway 96 on the south Highways 10 and 35W on the west Lexinoton Avenue <br />property, <br />— - <br />on the east. and County Road I on the north (map) <br />Deleted: covering about 3.7 square <br />miles (2,370 acres). The property is <br />bounded by Highway 96 on the south, <br />Highways 10 and 35W on the west, _ <br />5.2 TCAAP Decommissioning and Land Transfers <br />Lexington Avenue on the east, and <br />County Road 1 on the north. In 1941, !. <br />the federal government started <br />Between 1974 and 1985 the federal government started decommissioning <br />construction on the property for <br />TCAAP" While munitions production by private entities continued into the eat <br />munitions production during Word <br />war a and ultimately for the Korean <br />20O0s, operations were a fraction of what was manufactured ateak roduction. <br />and Vietnam Wars. The entire <br />---i -- — <br />plans to transfer portions of the property and redevelop it a� been in the <br />TCAAP property was included in the <br />Arden Hills municipal border when the <br />works since jhe 1980s. Redevelopment plans for the former TCAAP property <br />City incorporated in 1951, <br />have continued to evolve and become more detailed <br />Formatted: Indent". LER: 0.25" <br />Formatted: Bullets and Numbenng <br />Deleted: q <br />Deleted: portions ofthe TCAAP - <br />property <br />Deleted: d <br />Deleted: at least <br />Deleted: when decommissioning of <br />the plant started. <br />Formatted: Font: (Default) Arial, 10 <br />Fit <br />Formatted: Font: (Default) Arial, 10 <br />Pt <br />DRAFT 19 <br />5/1/2008 <br />