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MEMORANDUM TO: New Brighton City Council FROM: Jeff Miller, HKGi DATE: July 21, 2022 SUBJECT: Update on Silver Lake Road Project HKGi created illustrative concept plans for future development in the three Silver Lake Road mixed-use areas. These concepts are simply a single representation of potential future development incorporating desirable design aspects identified by the public during phase 1 of the study’s community engagement. Phase 2 of the community engagement process provided opportunities for community input to these illustrative concepts via interactive input maps and a short survey on the project website. These concepts are also intended to help identify the needed updates to the zoning regulations for each of these areas. At Tuesday’s City Council Work Session, HKGi will present the illustrative concept plans, a summary of the input received from the community through the engagement phase 2 process, and what this input means for identifying future zoning regulations updates. Illustrative Mixed Use Concepts In general, the illustrative development concepts show the potential for adding new housing options and a wider variety of retail, service, and dining businesses to each of the existing commercial nodes. New commercial buildings with outdoor plazas for seating/dining are facing and located closer to Silver Lake Road. New multi-story buildings are shown where one-story commercial buildings surrounded by surface parking lots exist today. The illustrative concepts also show potential circulation improvements, including pedestrian, bike, and vehicular. Surface parking lots are located behind or to the side of buildings along Silver Lake Road; new housing would generally have indoor parking. Attached are the illustrative concepts for the three Silver Lake Road mixed use nodes: • Rice St / Mississippi St • I-694 • St. Anthony / County Road E West Community Engagement Phase 2 Participation The engagement phase 2 process was successful in increasing participation generally over phase 1. The table below shows increases for most of the participation indicators. The one exception is less participants completed the survey than in phase 1, while there was more comments submitted on the interactive input maps.