Minutes - Council Work Session - 01/18/2006 - Ramsey Town Center

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4) West of Armstrong Development Community Development Director Trudgeon distributed a redevelopment study that staff had been working on over the last few months concerning an area west of Armstrong and referred to as Ramsey Crossings. Staff believes that this area adjacent to the Ramsey Town Center should be developed in a way that provides for commercial, retail, and office opportunities that would both benefit from as well as be a benefit to the Ramsey Town Center. The development is not intended to be a Town Center II or an additional phase, instead, it is intended to be an area, that while different in development configuration and providing for different types and scale of development, it is a compliment to the Ramsey Town Center uses. The area to the west of Ramsey Town Center, a collection of vacant lots, industrial buildings, outdoor storage and retail uses, is a candidate for redevelopment. Coupling the variety of uses with the fact that major transportation corridors will impact this area in a way that will be disruptive to the existing uses as well as providing the area more visibility, it becomes clear that the area west of Ramsey Town Center will undergo a change. A haphazard development west of the Ramsey Town Center is not in the best interest of the City of Ramsey nor its residents. Therefore, staff recommends that the area west of Ramsey Town Center should be explored for ways that would foster development. The Council expressed a desire to initiate the project due to the first topic conceming the Fiscal Impact Analysis and the need for a better source of revenue by the year 2009. It was the consensus of the Council to control the land and promote the development and redevelopment of the property west of Armstrong. The Council directed staff to bring forward whatever Council action is necessary to the next Council meeting for Council consideration. The Council asked staffto work to develop a contractual agreement with LSA Design for project management and to begin the work for a Request for Proposal for development of the entire site. Staff also noted that the project would require a change in zoning for the area known as Ramsey Crossings. The zoning would go before the Planning Commission sometime in March or April. Staff would also work with a legal team to guarantee the acquisition and control of property west of Armstrong. ADJOURN The Ramsey Town Center Work Session adjourned at 5:58 p.m. Respect fu~lly Subjn. it~ed, Jam~s E. Norman Cit~-A~mimstrator Town Center Work Session/January 18, 2006 Page 3 of 3