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City of Arden Hills - Comprehensive Plan - DRAFT National Guard is in the process of developing a 10nQ-term master plan for the Qroperty. While the AHA TS master plan has not been finalized. it is anticipated to include a field maintenance shop. traininQ area m".D-<!fLell}ent buildinQ. division headquarters. state ioint force headquarters. billetinQ. and a number of ancillarv buildinQs (draft map 1. TheJ)roject is Qiso expected to include an armorv/traininQ center that could have a community center component. The potential buildinqs would be located on the north and west sides of the Ramsey County/Arden Hills Public Works Facility_ at the northwest corner_pf the Hamline Avenue and HiQhway 96 intersection (Map). The potential impacts of the AHATS master plan have not been fully evaluated. but it will increase use and workers on the National Guard prcmerty. The City seeks to maintain a workinQ relationship with the Minnesota National Guard on Q@nninQ activities and to pQtentially collaborat~_QIl-,,___community center as p_art of the traininQ facility. 5.2.3 City of Arden Hills In 1994. the federal QQvernment formally _declared 774, acres of the TCMP property as excess that was to be sold. In order to have a more proactive and holistic planninQ process for the excess property. the City. alonQ with a private developer. entered into a purchase aQreement with the federal Qovernment in 2007 to purchase 585 acres of land adiacent to Interstate 35W and HiQhwav 10 fM2.Rl Various redevelopment plans have been in proqress since the early 1980s. includinQ the Vento Reuse Plan and...\Oi'_.Eramework Vision. ~~development plans continue to evolve as transfer of the land to the City draws closer. In 2007. the City initiated a more detailed communit>,-QlaQning process to better define how the 585 acres shouid be redeveloped_ While a final iand use plan will not be approved in time for inclusion in this Comprehensive Plan. approximately 49 acres will be transferred to Ramsey Countv for a wildlife corridor connectinQ Rice Creek to the AHATS property and 76_5 acres will be used for an undetermined public use. Once the City adopts a land use redevelopment plan. the Comprehensive Plan will be amended to include all of the redevelopment data. includinq approved land uses. housinQ densities. transportation infrastructure. traffic Qeneration. parks. open spaces. and water resource data. In preparation for that amendment. thi" Comprehensive Plao..lrrcludes the overall visionJor the DRAFT 5/15/2008 21