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REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION DATE: OS-15-06 ITEM No.: Staff Approval: Manager Approval: Agenda Section: DPW Item Description: Consider Twin Lakes 5 Year AUAR Review Process (PF3722) 1.0 REQUESTED ACTION: Discuss the required 2006 Alternate Urban Area (AUAR) 5 year review planning and environmental tool. Since the City has adopted the AUAR and it has been reviewed and approved through the EQB process, the City is responsible for the review and filing of the 5 year update, which should take less than one year, beginning in August of 2006. 2.0 BACKGROUND: 2.1 On August 12, 2001, the City Council held a public hearing, took public testimony and adopted the Twin Lakes AUAR as the planning and environmental tool for redevelopment within the 280 acres study area. The State Environmental Quality Board (EQB) rules require a"post 5 year" review of each approved AUAR. The deadline to begin such a review is August 12, 2006. 2.2 What must be done in the 5 year review of the AUAR for Twin Lakes is an update of completed portions of the AUAR described development that lists and describes: • All approvals and build-outs to date noting consistency with (or above\below) the AUAR thresholds, noting all issues which are less than, equal to or exceed the AUAR • The land uses changed beyond the limits of the AUAR • Trafiic changed beyond the limits estimated in the AUAR • Mitigations - management for quality and\or storage capacity beyond what was anticipated in the concept of the original AUAR plan. • the remainder of the site from Fairview to Snelling, and from G2 to Brenner where very few changes have occurred. The update is not considered an overhaul of the existing AUAR. Our staff and consultants will go back to the original final AUAR document and highlight what has been changed during the 5 years, and how that may have changed the mitigation procedures. Our procedure will be to create a digital document that can be posted on web sites or copied to CDs. We will an annotate style, using a"strike-out or "underline add-in" technique within the existing final AUAR and then add digital links to supporting documents. (A similar technique is used by Scott County.) Staff will not rewrite the entire document. The land use changes are activities that the city staff can do, but issues relating to traffic, turning movements and new capacity on recently rebuilt County Road C must be done in a traffic model, (preferably the city's new model) or one developed by a traffic consultant