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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 and as soon as received, they will be put on the City's website. VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 6 Ms. Nancy Robinett, 3408 315` Avenue NE, provided more information on the Lowry Grove 7 Redevelopment Meeting last evening. She noted CPG does not have ownership of the Bremer 8 Bank site yet it was featured in their presentation as part of an integrated site plan. The two -acre 9 Bremer Bank site is proposed for the affordable housing site and the affordable housing 10 component of the redevelopment are of high interest. She stated it was disturbing to see that the 11 Bremer Bank site was featured when in fact CPG does not own the site. Alan Arthur of AEON 12 actually has a purchase agreement on the site. Ms. Robinett posed the question and CPG did not 13 answer the question. She does not know if the City Council was aware of this and feels that fact 14 throws it all into uncertainty. Ms. Robinett indicated CPG stated they had been discussing 15 affordable housing with "The City ". She assumed that to mean City Staff. She heard there was 16 potential of packing the bowling alley across the street with the Bremer Bank site to enhance 17 affordable housing at the site. Ms. Robinett assumes City Council did not know CPG did not 18 own the Bremer Bank site because it was a very misleading presentation to the public. She would 19 like to know what the City has said about the bowling alley site and asked Mr. Casey to follow - 20 up with her. 21 22 Mayor Faust stated when a person says they own a piece of property the City does not go and 23 check property records. Mayor Faust said he and City Manager Casey have been trying to market 24 the bowling alley site for 2%2 years. 25 26 Councilmember Stille stated in the land development business, companies want to make 27 presentations such as this to get entitlement approvals before you become fee owner. He does not 28 know where this stands with purchase agreements and Council is not in the middle of this. 29 30 Councilmember Gray stated Council is committed to have affordable housing as part of the 31 project and if the final plan does not include affordable housing, it won't be approved as far as he 32 is concerned. He stated Council does not know what the final presentation will consist of. 33 34 IX. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 35 36 It was noted that on December 91h, the Holiday Train will come to St. Anthony at 37`h and 37 Stinson. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. and the train arrives at 7:45 p.m. 38 39 X. ADJOURNMENT. 40 41 Mayor Faust adjourned the meeting at 8:15 p.m. 42 43 Respectfully submitted, 44 Debbie Wolfe 45 Timesaver off Site Secretarial, Inc. 46