Chronology of Council Action/Hearings on Twin Lakes

• June 2, 2003, Roseville Properties came to the city council with a proposed memo of understanding.
• October 13, 2003, the city council directed staff to confer with community members, developers and other parties to come back to the council with alternatives for a comprehensive redevelopment of Twin Lakes.
• November 17, 2003, the city council directed staff to prepare a proposal for Allina to relocate the Allina headquarters in the Twin Lakes Area. 
• December 8, 2003, the city council adopted an outline for the Twin Lakes Stakeholder Panel. 
• January 29, 2004 to July 12, 2004, the Twin Lakes Stakeholder Panel met, with 25 members participating in 11 workshops. 
• August 9, 2004, the city council authorized staff to work with Rottland Homes to further develop and refine the plan for future consideration. 
• September 20, 2004, the city council held a public hearing to receive public comment regarding possible financial assistance relating to the project.
• October 6, 2004, the planning commission held the first hearing on the general concept plan.
• October 14, 2004, the planning commission held its second hearing. 
• November 22, 2004, the city council held a hearing solely on environment issues and whether the AUAR remained valid. 
• December 20, 2004, the city council heard staff report and had an opportunity to question staff and the developer.  By my calculation, our community development director responded to questions for close to an hour.  However, rather than making a decision that night, we continued the matter for another 3 weeks. 
• January 10, 2005, the council conducted another hearing (at which we heard from more than twenty citizens) before approving the concept plan. 
• January 31, 2005, the council considered a motion by Amy Ihlan to review consulting fees for Twin Lakes and consideration of other consultant issues.
• February 14, 2005, the council received an update on the timeline for council consideration of the Twin Lakes project and Rottlund’s application for TIF.
• February 28, 2005, Rottland appeared before the council to seek council review and approval that the next milestone within the contact for exclusive negotiation had been approved.  This item was also considered at the March 14, 2005, meeting. 
• March 14, 2005, Rottland again appeared before the council for review and approval of the next milestone.
• April 18, 2005, the council went through the proposed term sheet page by page and asked questions about the terms and suggested changes to make sure that the term sheet addressed the issues that we had identified as important. 
• April 25, 2005, the council heard public comment from (I guessing) at least a dozen people about Twin Lakes.  Council members and the public posed questions to staff and our consultants about the term sheet and suggested changes to it.  The council also set another hearing date for consideration of a Twin Lakes tax increment district. 

Prepared by Mayor Craig Klausing (5/24/05)