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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Page 6 now 27-28 units per acre. They intend to bring their plan to the Planning Commission in January 1 and as soon as received, they will be put on the City’s website. 2 3 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 4 5 Ms. Nancy Robinett, 3408 31st Avenue NE, provided more information on the Lowry Grove 6 Redevelopment Meeting last evening. She noted CPG does not have ownership of the Bremer 7 Bank site yet it was featured in their presentation as part of an integrated site plan. The two-acre 8 Bremer Bank site is proposed for the affordable housing site and the affordable housing 9 component of the redevelopment are of high interest. She stated it was disturbing to see that the 10 Bremer Bank site was featured when in fact CPG does not own the site. Alan Arthur of AEON 11 actually has a purchase agreement on the site. Ms. Robinett posed the question and CPG did not 12 answer the question. She does not know if the City Council was aware of this and feels that fact 13 throws it all into uncertainty. Ms. Robinett indicated CPG stated they had been discussing 14 affordable housing with “The City”. She assumed that to mean City Staff. She heard there was 15 potential of packing the bowling alley across the street with the Bremer Bank site to enhance 16 affordable housing at the site. Ms. Robinett assumes City Council did not know CPG did not 17 own the Bremer Bank site because it was a very misleading presentation to the public. She would 18 like to know what the City has said about the bowling alley site and asked Mr. Casey to follow-19 up with her. 20 21 Mayor Faust stated when a person says they own a piece of property the City does not go and 22 check property records. Mayor Faust said he and City Manager Casey have been trying to market 23 the bowling alley site for 2½ years. 24 25 Councilmember Stille stated in the land development business, companies want to make 26 presentations such as this to get entitlement approvals before you become fee owner. He does not 27 know where this stands with purchase agreements and Council is not in the middle of this. 28 29 Councilmember Gray stated Council is committed to have affordable housing as part of the 30 project and if the final plan does not include affordable housing, it won’t be approved as far as he 31 is concerned. He stated Council does not know what the final presentation will consist of. 32 33 IX. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 34 35 It was noted that on December 9th, the Holiday Train will come to St. Anthony at 37th and 36 Stinson. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. and the train arrives at 7:45 p.m. 37 38 X. ADJOURNMENT. 39 40 Mayor Faust adjourned the meeting at 8:15 p.m. 41 42 Respectfully submitted, 43 Debbie Wolfe 44 TimeSaver off Site Secretarial, Inc. 45 46 6