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ARDEN HILLS CITY TCAAP WORK SESSION—FEBRUARY 22, 2010 3 Community Development Director Lehnhoff explained that he is drafting an RFP for planning and legal services to assist in the preparation of the TCAAP zoning regulations to ensure that the City is on solid legal ground and using clear zoning language. He anticipates bring a proposal to the City Council for review on March 8. He then referred to page one of the attachment entitled — "203 0 Comprehensive Plan: Future Land Uses." This document contains an error that should be corrected to reflect what was approved in the Comprehensive Plan: Mixed Residential should be listed as 200 acres Mixed Business as 240 acres. He then reviewed the following sections of our zoning code: 1320.04 Purpose of Districts is simply a purpose statement for every zone we have in the Comprehensive Plan. He explained that Part A, the goal for TCAAP, is directly from the Comprehensive Plan and the remaining paragraphs he borrowed from other zoning districts and which support what has been discussed for the TCAAP property. Councilmember Holmes commented that she would like to see a statement that the Council would like to encourage residential communities to pay for their own amenities such as plantings, median,boulevard, trees, and sidewalks. Community Development Director Lehnhoff suggested there could be a general statement under this section such as "economically self-sustaining" but we would want to go into more detail elsewhere in the document. Mayor Harpstead stated that it doesn't say in the purpose statement that one of the objectives is to have this development be integrated with Arden Hills. Community Development Director Lehnhoff responded it would be appropriate to include that in the purpose statement. Councilmember Holden stated that at one time there was discussion about allowing apartments over business sites but if we split the plan into two distinct districts, that would be gone. Community Development Director Lehnhoff responded that with the current plan, housing would be limited to the housing side and business to the business side. But if a proposal is submitted with housing over business, there could be a Comprehensive Plan amendment to address that at a later date. Councilmember Holden questioned how we are addressing the Council's desire for a centralized park. Community Development Director Lehnhoff stated that will be addressed under the parks section. Councilmember McClung commented that the centralized park is an important issue to him.