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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 APPROVED 2 3 CITY OF LINO LAKES 4 MINUTES 5 6 7 8 DATE : September 22, 2004 9 TIME STARTED : 5:35 p.m. 10 TIME ENDED : 9:00 p.m. 11 MEMBERS PRESENT : Councilmember Carlson, Dahl, Reinert 12 and Mayor Bergeson 13 MEMBERS ABSENT : Councilmember Stoltz 14 15 Staff members present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Community Development 16 Director, Mike Grochala; Community Development Coordinator, Mary Alice Divine; 17 City Engineer, Jim Studenski; City Planner, Jeff Smyser; and City Planner, Paul 18 Bengston (part) 19 20 LEGACY AT WOODS EDGE 21 22 Community Development Coordinator Divine referred to Item 6C from the regular 23 Council agenda regarding the public hearing on the Hartford Group application for public 24 assistance. Steve Bubul from Kennedy & Graven is continuing to work on the • 25 Redevelopment Contract to include all the terms of the agreement that were outlined to 26 the Council. The Springsted memo, which was previously distributed and included 27 changes to the Minimum Assessment Agreements and Minimum Value Requirements, 28 outlines the terms of the agreement and is included with Item 6C. 29 30 Community Development Coordinator Divine advised this is a public hearing that is not 31 required by law, but the City Council elected to hold the hearing to get public comment. 32 On September 27, staff will recommend that Council take public testimony and then 33 continue the hearing to October 11. On October 11, the EDA and the City Council will 34 consider approving the Redevelopment Contract. Normally EDA meetings are held at 35 6:00 p.m. before the Council meeting. Because the City Council is likely to want to hear 36 any additional testimony and have public discussion of this item, staff is recommending 37 that the EDA meeting be held after the Council meeting. 38 39 Mr. Bill Griffith, Hartford Group, distributed and reviewed a copy of the site plan noting 40 Hartford conducted two market studies in relation to commercial and residential uses for 41 the site. He stated the approved plan requires the following: 42 43 • Total residential development will not exceed 450units 44 • Affordable housing is required for 20% of the total units 45 • Maximum percentage of rental units will not exceed 49% 46 • Owner occupied housing may increase based on market conditions . 47 • The general area designated for townhomes will be owner occupied housing 48