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11. It is important to keep in mind that the most significant reduction in automobile traffic that our proposal offers, is that our residents will be seniors, and seniors drive less than any other age group. To further reduce the need for automobile traffic, our proposal will call for a walking path throughout the Arona site that would hook-up with walkways to the shops and commercial establishments along Snelling Avenue, and walkways to the shops in the Hamline Shopping Center. It is very important to senior residents to have those connections to their immediate community, and thus we would work closely with the City to create those connections. We would also coordinate van transportation with services such as the Roseville Circulator to insure that residents have adequate transportation choices available. We would also explore how best to provide our buildings access to the "Information Super Highway". Although not many of our current senior residents would use these computer services, over time this will grow in significance. 12. Only 44 of the 286 units we have proposed would be impacted by what transpires with the Activity Center. We would simply postpone the development of those 44 units until the Activity Center site becomes available. Should the City decide to retain the Activity Center indefinitely, we would still develop the other 242 units. 13. In order to achieve the mixed income groups and housing types we have indicated in our proposal, the following assistance would be required: 1. Tax-exempt bonding. 2. Tax increment financing. 3. Subordinated land lease. No additional assistance would be required to achieve a broader mix of age levels. However, given the size of the site and traffic concerns, we would not want to provide many units to younger, more active age groups. 14. Our desired development schedule would be to begin construction on the two apartment buildings during the Spring of 1996 so that construction completion would coincide with the prime leasing season (ie. beginning of Spring-Fall 1997). Our Pre- marketing efforts would likely generate substantial interest in the for-sale cottage units. We would like to begin construction of these units once we have Pre-sold at least 50% of the units and completed construction of the two apartment buildings. Thus a Spring 1997 construction start, with an 18-month sell out period would be contemplated. Depending upon market conditions and availability of the land, we could stage the development of the two apartment buildings and either delay or speed-up development of the cottages.