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REDA Meeting <br /> Minutes—Tuesday,April 18,2017 <br /> Page 6 <br /> core business is: development, construction, architecture, and property <br /> management. <br /> Pat Sarver, Landscape Architect, CivilSite Group, whose core business is <br /> civil engineering, site development, landscape architecture and consulting. <br /> Michael Krause, Business Development Specialist, Innovative Power <br /> Systems (IPS), a Roseville-based company in its twenty-fifth year of business, <br /> with fourteen years in working with Sands Development, LLC. <br /> Mr. Thelen reviewed the development concept and site location along <br /> Highway 88 and its visibility to the I-35W freeway. Mr. Thelen noted the <br /> amenities available for residents at this location (e.g. employment, shopping or <br /> retail, schools/education, and transportation modes). Mr. Thelen displayed <br /> three concept views of the development: the building footprints, unit sizes, and <br /> site amenities. <br /> Mr. Sarver addressed the connectivity of the site on the displayed map, <br /> including access transit, a 1700' pathway around the internal site and available <br /> for public access with fitness destination nodes included along the path. Mr. <br /> Sarver noted that a new walkway would also connect this site along the <br /> western side and north to transit and south to Sandcastle Park and any future <br /> new development to the south all within a half-mile loop of the site. In more <br /> detailed views of the site, Mr. Sarver addressed the positioning of buildings to <br /> the exterior of the site allowing for an internal common gathering/family space <br /> on the interior of the site. Mr. Sarver noted that this green area was intended to <br /> encourage pedestrian access to the north and south; and proposed solar carports <br /> for some parking stalls along with solar panels on the buildings themselves. <br /> Mr. Krause advised that his firm's charge was to help the development team <br /> maximize the potential for solar energy technology on the site. Mr. Krause <br /> reviewed proposed solar energy intended to be structured under the relatively <br /> new Minnesota Solar Garden Law, of which they were a pioneer for <br /> installations. Mr. Krause stated that the proposal was for not only installing <br /> solar on site, but through twenty-five year contracts with Xcel Energy, allocate <br /> solar credits for residents in individual units on the site. <br /> Mr. Sarver noted other possibilities included the harvesting of rainwater from <br /> roofs for re-use as part of the project's goal for creating sustainable <br /> development. <br /> Mr. Thelen provided a concept breakdown and source of funds based on the <br /> 66-unit building. At this point, those sources included first mortgages with <br /> private lenders and owner/deferred fees: a Ramsey County HOME loan; <br /> energy rebates; Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); <br /> approximately $1 million in tax increment financing (TIF) for a term of 4.5 <br />