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Further discussion: Councilmember Strommen stated that a medium densitY'of 4 units to 12 units is quite a large range and she would like to tighten that range in the future. Principal Planner Trudgeon replied that that is something that can be addressed in the zoning districts as they continue. · .Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers. E!vig, Pearson, Cook, Zimmerman, and Strommen. Voting No: None. Abstained: Councilmember Kurak. 4) Memorandum of Understanding : Principal Planner Trudgeon stated that staff has been preparing a draft of a Memorandum of Understanding (a pre-development development agreement) that would be signed by both the City of Ramsey and Ramsey Town Center LLC. staff does not have a draft prepared yet, but expects to have one lshortly. Staff will forward the draft to the City Council for their review and approval. It is expected that the Memorandum of Understanding will include expectations of the developer and the City, will outline items to be negotiated, and potentially require a financial surety provided.by the developer. 5) 6) City Council Joint Meetings Principal Planner Trudgeon stated that staff was recommending that the City Council hold a couple of joint meetings in February 2003 to discuss Town Center matters. One should be a joint meeting with the Town Center Task Force. The.purpose of this meeting would be to review the information gathered by the Task Force in more detail and discuss the role of the Task Force as the Town Center begins development. A second joint meeting should be held between the City Council and the developer, Ramsey Town Center, LLC. At this meeting, the City Council could raise issues and have questions answered by the developer, as well as, receive an update from Ramsey ToWn Center LLC on their design of the Town Center. Consensus of the City Council was to schedule joint meetings with the Town Center Task Force and Ramsey Town Center LLC on February 4th and February 18th. Town Center Alternative Urbanwide Area Review (AUAR) Environmental Review Principal Planner Trudgeon stated that the Town Center is of such a scale that a tremendous amount of environmental review will need to be completed before any construction can begin. Ramsey ToWn Center LLChas contracted with EOR Inc. to start providing information needed for the environmental review. The developer has requested that the City initiate environmental review at the January 14, 2003 City Council meeting. As part of the initiation of the AUAR, a concept plan needs to be submitted. As the City Council may know, this plan is only used as a baseline for the environmental analysis. It should be noted that the initiation of the AUAR does not bind the Council to any specific City Council/January 14, 2003 Page 20 of 27