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Mounds View EDA December 11, 2006 <br />Regular Meeting Page 3 <br /> <br />on particular restaurant types and evaluate each and every type of potential restaurant. 86 <br /> 87 <br />President Marty said that allowing the market to respond makes the City reactive and the purpose 88 <br />of the study was to allow the City to be proactive in determining what to place on this site. 89 <br /> 90 <br />Commissioner Thomas said that she was expecting that a market analysis would tell her if the 91 <br />area should be commercial or a mixed-use development or should it be a neighborhood 92 <br />development or destination type. She then said that being too specific would limit development 93 <br />of the site. 94 <br /> 95 <br />Commissioner Gunn said that she was looking for this type of information to be used as a tool 96 <br />where the City could market the area when someone comes to the City to develop a site. She 97 <br />then said that development is reactive. 98 <br /> 99 <br />Jay Demma indicated that they would be happy to expand the study should the City determine 100 <br />that is necessary. 101 <br /> 102 <br />John Slack walked the Authority through the planning study and provided a general overview of 103 <br />the market study. 104 <br /> 105 <br />Mr. Slack indicated that the EDA is 1.5 acres of the total redevelopment area. 106 <br /> 107 <br />Mr. Slack indicated that site ownership is an issue for the site as there are 12 property owners. 108 <br />He then said that they looked at creating a plan that responds to development over time as parcels 109 <br />become available. 110 <br /> 111 <br />Mr. Slack defined the goals in this redevelopment process and reviewed them with the Authority. 112 <br /> 113 <br />Mr. Slack reviewed the Concept A specifics with the Authority. He then reviewed Concept B 114 <br />noting that the development time frame for this concept would be one to three years. 115 <br /> 116 <br />Commissioner Thomas asked what would make this site more attractive. 117 <br /> 118 <br />Mr. Slack trails for the office employees to use along with synergy of the site and other potential 119 <br />uses that occur here and on other parts of the site to allow people to do more than one errand at 120 <br />one time in this location. 121 <br /> 122 <br />Mr. Uban said that bringing that building right up to the roadway will strengthen the site and 123 <br />makes it more attractive and it will slow traffic to bring commerce to a Main Street type of 124 <br />development. He then said that a two-story office would cement this type of redevelopment 125 <br />concept. 126 <br /> 127