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INCORPORATED CONSULTING PLANNERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 300 FIRST AVENUE NORTH SUITE 210 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401 612-339-3300 PHONE 612-337-5601 FAX DATE: June 20, 2001 TO: St. Anthony City Council FROM: John Shardlow, AICP RE: Review of the Next Steps in the Northwest Quadrant Master Planning Process INTRODUCTION The Northwest Quadrant Master Planning Process has been underway for seven months and we are drawing to a close of the initial phase of this work. Several key decisions now need to be made by the City Council. We would like to take this opportunity to update the Council on the work completed to date and prepare the it for the decisions that lay ahead. We will provide the Council with information about upcoming steps in the redevelopment process and discuss design standards, an example of which is attached for your review. Similar detailed standards will need to be prepared for the Northwest Quadrant redevelopment area in concert with the developer(s), once selected. They can either take the form of an ordinance (like Burnsville's Heart of the City, also attached for your review) or they can be incorporated by reference through the PUD process. We will be presenting our final report to the Planning Commission on the July 17'h and to the City Council on July 24'h. The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and make a recommendation to the Council regarding acceptance of the report. The Council will then be asked to act on this recommendation and provide further direction to the consultant group regarding next steps. The report itself will contain a number of different components including a section summarizing the work we have done with the Planning Steering Committee, comments we have received from the committee, the results of the background studies completed by our team of consultants, and feedback received at the open house held in March. Another section will highlight two principle