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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL OCTOBER 9, 2002 The City Administrator further noted that the recommendations of the City Engineer, City Planner, and City staff may force the redesign of the preliminary plat for The Preserve. Fahey again stated that the easement area needs to be defined, and indicated that he was not interested in precluding development over an artificial debate on the easement. The Administrator agreed that the easement will have to be defined and/or released as necessary. Scalze requested information from Williams as to the leaks that have occurred in this portion of the line in the early 1980's. The City Administrator stated that he will attempt to obtain that information. RECESS At this point in the meeting the Council took a short recess. The meeting was reconvened at 8:50 p.m. NORTHEAST Alicia Vap, Ramsey County, appeared before the Council and presented an DIAGONAL update on the Northeast Diagonal Land Use/Transit Study. Vap explained that the Northeast Diagonal is a corridor that runs from downtown Minneapolis to White Bear Lake and has been identified in the Metropolitan Council's Transit 2020 plan as a potential busway to be implemented post-2010. Vap noted that the purpose of the study was to identify land use opportunities based on Smart Growth principles and support transit-oriented development and related transit infrastructure. The study also assessed the affects of these land use scenarios on the future transit market for the Northeast Diagonal study area. Vap reviewed the details of the study and its conclusions and recommendations. Recommendations related to communities were as follows: I. Adopt atransit-oriented development overlay zoning district that guides growth and development according to the Metropolitan Council's Smart Growth principles and prepare design standards and guidelines to shape new developments in the overlay districts. 2. Develop a master plan for desired opportunity sites. This could include a development plan, re-evaluating the recommended uses with the opportunity sites, and evaluating the market demand for the sites. Implement land use and transportation changes to the local comprehensive plan that supports the corridor, related Smart Growth scenario recommendations and transit-friendly mixed-use development patterns. It was noted that two opportunity sites were identified in Little Canada. These were in the area of Rice Street and South Owasso Blvd. as well as in the area of Ryan