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Pulte Infill/Redevelopment Experience One of Pulte's primary focuses is on infill/redevelopment. We have partnered with many cities throughout the years to successfully complete infill/redevelopment sites throughout the Twin Cities. We recognize that when developing an infill property there are additional considerations that must be considered and addressed. Typically, these include focusing on the various goals of a city and being sensitive to the neighbors. We have gained experience and skill in these areas. In recent years, we have completed infill/redevelopments projects in the nearby communities of New Brighton (2), Fridley, and others. Please see the project bios at the end of this submittal for details on some of these infill developments/redevelopments. Site Plans The process of creating a site plan involves balancing many forces. These forces typically pertain to physical constraints, the housing market, City goals, and sensitivity to the neighbors. We take pride in carefully contemplating the various forces to find a balanced and logical site plan. We evaluated the Greenfield site and concluded that the physical constraints were too great to resolve. The extent of the floodplain left little land to develop. We turned our focus to the Ardan Avenue property. Below you will find a description of the example site plans submitted for review. At this early stage, they are conceptual in nature and are certain to change as new information comes forward. We created three different site plans for us to better understand what could occur on the site. Concept 1 includes only those properties that area currently owned by the City. This proved to us that a workable redevelopment project could occur without the acquisition of any additional properties. Concept 2 is a highly sensitive site plan which assumes the acquisition of some adjacent properties and retains extraordinary wooded buffers to some of the adjacent properties. Concept 3 is what we would consider to be the maximum use of the City land and adjacent properties. Concept 1 The underlying assumption with this site plan (concept) is that only City properties would be developed. This could be the result of the City wanting the redevelopment to be limited in scope or it could be the result of neighboring property owners not being interested in selling their properties. The site plan shows two story townhomes (see a later section in this narrative for more details on the housing). In general, the layout of this site plan is functional and practical. We haven't taken this site plan to the next level in detail dealing with guest parking, potential amenities, etc. Typically, townhomes have private streets and public utilities. In this scenario, the streets serving the townhomes would need to be public to enable the existing platted lots to be served by a public street. Since these existing lots generally do not have sewer, water, or street access, they would be assessed their share of the public infrastructure costs. 0)