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18 4.0 BACKGROUND 19 The property at 2057 Snelling Avenue, has a Comprehensive Land Use Plan designation 20 of Community Business (CB) and a corresponding zoning classification of Community 21 Business (CB) District. Section 1005.03 (Uses Allowed in Commercial Districts) of the 22 City Code identifies pawn shops as conditional uses. 2'3 5.0 STAFF COMMENTS 24 5.1 The proposed plans and narrative description of the current application is included with 25 this staff report as Attachment C. In 2008 this same applicant proposed a pawn shop for a 26 location about a quarter-mile north of the present proposal; staffs analysis of this 2 7' previous application led to the conclusion that a pawn shop was similar to other retail 28 uses,, having no significant impacts on public facilities, nearby property values, or the 29 health,, safety and general welfare of the community. Consequently, Planning Division '30 staff recommended that the proposed CONDITIONAL USE be approved. 5.2 By a vote of 5-1 the Planning Commission also recommended approval of the 2008 ' 2 application based on the review of the facts that staff and the Commissioners believed to '33 be important. City Council ultimately denied that proposal, however, based on several findings and facts gleaned from the public testimony collected during the process of '35 reviewing the application. This prior Council action not only represented a denial of that N_)6 application, but it also showed the information used in the approval recommendation to N3 7' be irrelevant and it clearly established the set of facts which were more appropriate to the '8 circumstances. "39 5.3 Because the present application is materially the same as the previous one in terms of its 40 geographic location and proximity to other retail uses and Bain all Elementary school, 41 and is arguably even closer to residential neighborhoods, the findings of fact 42 underpinning the denial of the earlier application are every bit as applicable to this 4,'3 proposal. For this reason, Planning Division staff believes that it is appropriate to defer to 14,14, the City Council's recent policy decision about a pawn shop in this area and recommend 145 that this application be denied on the same grounds as the 2008 application.- if a pawn 146 shop was unacceptable in the location proposed in 2008, a pawn shop is equally 4 7' unacceptable if not more so), at the presently-proposed site. 48 5.4 Furthermore,, in discussing this request with the Development Review Committee, a 149 panel of staff from various City Departments commenting on proposals from their diverse 50 professional perspectives, Police Chief Mathwig indicated concerns about the Police 51 Department's ability to keep up with the increased work load if additional pawn shops 52 are introduced within the City. Just the one, existing pawn shop, Pawn America at 1715 5'3 Rice Street,, occupies 25% of one investigator's work, and Chief Mathwig points out that 54 Roseville's detectives already have an average of 35 open cases in their caseloads. In 55 fact,, the Police Department may be pursuing changes in the business licensing 56 requirements to limit pawn broker licenses in Roseville to a single license, similar to the 5 7' way off-sale liquor licenses are limited in number. 58 6.0 PUBLIC COMMENT 59 6.1 The duly-noticed public hearing for the proposed CONDITIONAL USE was held by the 60 Planning Commission on April 6, 2011 - draft minutes of the public hearing are included 61 with this staff report as Attachment D. Some Planning Commissioners admonished staff PF I I - RCA 042 5 11. doc Page 2 of 3