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300 buildings were constructed to manufacture and test munitions for World War II. At its peak, TCAAP employed more than 25,000 people. The TCAAP property was included in the City of Arden Dills' borders when the City incorporated in 1951. Between 1974 and 1985, the Army decommissioned most of the operations at TCAAP. The federal government formally declared 774 acres on the western side of the original TCAAP property as excess property in 1994. The balance of the original TCAAP property has been transferred or leased to other public entities, including the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Ramsey County, and the Minnesota National Guard. With the bulk of the original TCAAP property dedicated to other uses, only 585 acres of the original 2,400 acres remained for sale and potential redevelopment (Attachment A). For the purposes of this planning discussion, the name "TCAAP' only applies to the remaining 585 acres. There have been discussions about the potential reuse of the TCAAP property almost since it was created. However, in the mid 1990s, former Congressman Vento initiated a community visioning process to begin more formal discussions about how the TCAAP property could be reused (Attachment A). Through the 1990s and early 2000s, the Army further defined the borders of what would be sold and moved closer to starting the process to sell the land. The City's TCAAP planning discussions eventually evolved into the Framework Vision that was adopted in 2005 (Attachment A). As part of the Army's process for selling TCAAP, the City was provided an opportunity to negotiate a purchase of the TCAAP property. The Army's alternative process was to sell the property through a public auction process. In order to be more proactive in the planning process, the City partnered with a private developer to purchase and redevelop the remaining 585 acres in 2007. Building off of previous planning efforts, the City embarked on a community planning process to create a detailed master redevelopment plan for the TCAAP property. The purpose of that process was to gather input, prepare a layout, and work toward adopting a detailed master redevelopment plan for the TCAAP property. A detailed master plan would address such items as land use, density, streetscapes, signage, landscaping, and other related items. Once the master plan was completed, zoning regulations would have been written to implement the TCAAP master plan. Citing economic conditions, the developer withdrew from the project in May 2009 before the planning process was completed or a master plan was adopted. When the developer exited the project, the offer to purchase the TCAAP property was terminated. The General Service Administration (GSA), on behalf of the Army, subsequently initiated a process to sell the TCAAP property at a public auction. The auction was tentatively set for the summer of 2010. In June 2009, a majority of the City Council voted to pursue a concept of creating a new regional park on the TCAAP property. The City Council held a joint meeting with the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners in October 2009 to discuss the idea. The Ramsey County Board of Commissions is the regional park authority for Ramsey County. While the County opted to not City of Arden Hills l iMetr o-inet.us'ar denhills iPlanningl Community Development',TC9AP1 Planning - Public Auction I Land Use Planning W30310 - PC Memo - TCAAP Planning Process.doc Page 2 of 8