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Commissioner Levine stated that he liked the idea of a joint meeting to check back in and make <br />sure the discussion the Commission is having is moving in the right direction but did not believe <br />that a large public meeting would be necessary. <br />Commissioner Bauer stated that he wanted to make sure that the process is transparent as well <br />because multiple "residents have expressed that they felt the original discussions for The COR <br />had been hushed and were not transparent. <br />Councilmember Shryock arrived. <br />Mayor Strommen stated that through this process there should be a review of the original vision <br />to determine if that is the same or where changes need to be made to the elements or <br />implementation items. She stated that perhaps those results are then shared with the public. <br />Councilmember Riley stated that another step of the process would be to determine the <br />impediments to the desired vision. <br />Commissioner Randy Bauer arrived. <br />City Administrator Ulrich stated that there is a good amount of community interest in The COR <br />and agreed that could be a good public involvement process. <br />Mayor Strommen agreed but believed that the review should be completed first in order for <br />everyone to be on the same page. <br />Councilmember LeTourneau agreed that this would be a good exercise. He stated that there has <br />been a good effort for the City to get out of the development business but believed that there <br />would be a good benefit for the City to take a step back and review the best methods to reach the <br />desired end result. <br />Mayor Strommen agreed that the City has been focused on being a landowner and getting out of <br />the development business which has distracted the City from their overall role in the planning <br />process. <br />Councilmember Kuzma stated that his platform had been for the City to get out of the <br />development business and believed that the City has done a lot in the past ten years. He stated <br />that there has been a large amount of development in The COR in the past ten years along with <br />beginning the Armstrong interchange project. He stated that the City was dealing with these <br />issues while bringing on a new economic development staff member and working with reality <br />rather than what the Metropolitan Council had projected. He also believed that the City has been <br />much more transparent than it had been in the past. <br />Councilmember Williams stated that the Economic Development Authority (EDA) has recently <br />been brought into discussions, which she thought was a great idea and also provides another <br />level of transparency. <br />City Council Work Session / May 26, 2015 <br />Page 3 of 7 <br />