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• HARTFORD DEVELOPMENT PLAN The vision of the Village project, which has been renamed Legacy at Woods Edge, is unlike conventional suburban commercial and residential development. This project, as defined in the city's Comprehensive Plan, calls for a mixed -use development comprised of residential, commercial, recreational and civic uses. The intent is to create a "sense of - place" by including: • Road design and sidewalks for people to walk and bicycle as well as providing for vehicular circulation. • Opportunities for activities that bring people together — community green, civic facilities, health and fitness, and access to the regional park —to encourage social values of a community. • Restoring physical design that is human in scale, using build -to lines so that buildings have windows looking onto the street. In the residential area garages will be behind the homes to encourage people to turn outward toward their neighborhood. • On street parking and other traffic calming features to make the street a part of the neighborhood, not a barrier between uses. The Hartford Group will act as master developer of the project. This site will have the city's highest housing densities, and will provide housing opportunities not currently available in Lino Lakes. The Hartford housing concept plan includes: • 113 market rate for -sale townhomes • 74 rental townhomes • 91 workforce rental townhomes (the developer has applied for tax credits to provide rental rates at 50% of the median income). • 48 condominiums built over commercial • 124 senior apartment/condominiums built over commercial The commercial component of the master plan includes commercial /retail /office space in the range of 250,000- 300,000 sq. ft. This will be a combination of first floor leased space with housing above, and pad -ready sites. The Hartford Group will build and own the rental townhomes and the commercial buildings that have apartments /condominiums above. The Hartford Group will bring in a developer to build the for -sale townhomes and market the remaining sites for commercial development. APPROVALS PROCESS/DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE There are four major components of the approvals process —the site plan/PDO, the EAW, the Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing District, and the Public Improvements process. Because of the complexity of this mixed -use project, the City has retained Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH) to oversee the planning, engineering and approvals process.