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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes July 17, 2001 Page 8 •1 2 2. Again the Planning Commission should put this project on hold until you have obtained 3 and evaluated written statements from District 282 schools and from the St. Anthony 4 Police, Fire and Maintenance Departments as to what capital outlays in buildings and 5 equipment plus staff increases will be required to support this project. 6 a. I think we can assume an influx of 300 to 500 children of school age. This 7 would require the building of new school facilities plus more teachers. 8 b. The Police Department will need at the very least more policeman. The Fire 9 Department will probably need more engines, facilities and staff. The 10 Maintenance Department may need more sewage treatment infrastructure and 11 maybe a new well to support the increase in fresh water needs. 12 C. We need to know what these capital and recurring costs will be before 13 proceeding with this project because only the current citizens of St. Anthony 14 Village will be paying for these new expenditures due to Tax Increment 15 Financing. Can the current citizens of SAV afford whatever this number is? 16 3. Now that we have some concept drawings and building density estimates the Planning 17 Commission should recommend that the NW Quadrant committee seek out and visit 18 projects of equivalent size and complexity as is being proposed here. 19 a. The NW Quadrant committee has driven by several local sites to get a feel for o this type of project. However, only one site in Edina of 350 condos was 1 anywhere near the size of this project. Do building sites of the size and building 22 density being proposed here even exist? I don't know and I don't think you do 23 either. 24 b. Much valuable information on what works and what doesn't work could be 25 obtained by visiting equivalent sized sites. This would most likely require a 26 search of the continental U.S. to find likely candidates to visit but it would be 27 worth it. 28 C. I for one will feel a lot better about the project if it can be determined that a 29 sites of similar size and complexity built on an approximately equal land area 30 has been successfully accomplished. 31 Summary: I believe that the Planning Commission has insufficient information with which to 32 make a decision and should vote to put this project on hold until: 33 1. It is known whether the Salvation Army site is included in the Apache project or not. 34 2. Reports outlining new facility and staff costs necessitated by this project are obtained 35 from the District 282 Schools, the Police Department, Fire Department, and 36 Maintenance Department so that the added capital and recurring costs tied to this 37 package are known and can be judged for affordability. 38 3. The representatives of the NW Quadrant committee complete visiting building sites of like size and complexity and provide their findings to the Commission. 40 Comment: All of this will take more time and push out the current schedule. In my opinion a 41 push out of a few months in schedule would have been significant 10 years ago for this site but