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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 6, 2017 Page 14 Commissioner McGuire responded that in hindsight, the county had realized their attempt to move too fast without informing cities, thus deciding to put the issue on hold for now. Commissioner McGuire noted that she chaired the county's Legislative Committee, and planned to work with the county's new Economic Development point person to sort things out to determine if the county needed an HRA or EDA. Having learned from their mistake, Commissioner McGuire ad- vised that cities would hear from the county before pursuing any such legislation in the future. Specific to the Rice Street/ Larpenteur Avenue planning, Mayor Roe noted a sig- nificant amount of talk in that vision for more year-round programming at McCar- rons Park, something not attempted to-date by Ramsey County, in addition to plowing those pathways. Mayor Roe emphasized that this needed to be on Ram- sey County's radar screen, specifically part of Urban Land Institute (ULI) efforts this week; with the planning group having ensured to involve Ramsey County's Parks & Recreation staff so there were no surprises. Specific to roadway improvements in that same area, Mayor Roe noted that the Cities of St. Paul, Maplewood, and Roseville had possible resources to apply to those improvements, and suggested as a result that Ramsey County bump up their priority roadway projects as well. Mayor Roe asked that Ramsey County consid- er any opportunities for partnering in those efforts or in changing their timing to move forward on projects in that area. Commissioner McGuire agreed those were excellent points, and agreed that any- thing the county could do to partner with projects to move them along faster was good and always something the county looked forward to participating in. In conclusion, Commissioner McGuire reiterated her intent to get the requested information after her research from various county department staff, with Mayor Roe asking that she forward that information to City Manager Trudgeon to dis- seminate to the City Council. b. Consider a Zoning Map Change and PRELIMINARY PLAT at 2315 Chats- worth Street (PF17-009) As detailed in the RCA and attachments of today's date, City Planner Thomas Paschke briefly summarized this request. At the request of Mayor Roe, City Planner Paschke advised that the develop- ment's tree preservation implementation had been reviewed and supported by the city's consulting forester and work would continue on landscaping and screening beyond that information included in this RCA.