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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, August 26,2002 7:00 o'clock p.m. (#02-2789 DAHLSTROM DEVELOPMENT, Continued) D^strom indicated that through down sizing some units and altering others, as well as offerinR. Sansevere asked if they had experience with affordable housing in any of their other developments. Dahlstrom indicated they had not. affordable housing, they would prefer that Murphy felt the City and developer would grow together as they progressed, and voiced his cunosity over the non-grocery store parcels, and what would become of them. He stated that there IS much the City does not know, and while he empathized with the developers need to keen his fleeing source quiet as of yet, he was concerned how the financing would proceed. He feared that this beautiful parcel might be bulldozed and stand empty, despite everyone's best efforts to develop it properly. He thanked everyone for their ongoing efforts to resolve these outstanding issues. Dahlstrom stated that he had built residential developments as recent as ‘96 and *98. Mayor Peterson asked if he had anything being built at this time. have any current developments being constructed at this time and h^ been fxused on this project for the good part of a year. He mentioned that he had vast expenence with multi-family housing projects and this proposal is a culmination of a vennu. ,0 bl«u) boU. m«W Mayor Peterson asked if this was Dahlstrom ’s first development of this magnitude. Dahlstrom stated that this would be the first time he has been able to find land to support Hus development and build all three types of housing units, the lifecycle housing. White felt it a great marketing technique to market to varying lifecycles within the development. Wth re^d to affordability, Murphy insisted that everyone has their own opinion of what affordability is and he encouraged Dahlstrom to obuin input from various organizations. n! I J ! ! i i '! i