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City Council Regular Meeting - 11/08/04 Minutes - Page 23 8. Twin Lakes Issues 8.a Process for Addressing the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EA W) Petition City Attorney Scott Anderson provided background information regarding the Twin Lakes Development/Citizen Environmental Review Petition filed with the Environmental Quality Board (EQB), received on Friday, October 22, 2004, prior to the City Council's anticipated consideration of Rottlund Homes' Twin Lakes Redevelopment at their October 25,2004, regular Council meeting. Mr. Anderson noted that, by letter from the EQB to the City of Roseville dated October 25, 2004, the EQB had designated the City of Roseville as the Responsible Government Unit (RGU) on the Petition, obligating the City Council to determine whether action requested by the petition - seeking Environmental Review prior to consideration of the Twin Lakes Development Plan - was necessary . Mr. Anderson noted that the Ci ty had prepared an Alternative Urban Area-wide Review (AUAR) study of the Twin Lakes area in 2001, adopted and approved per EQB rules. Mr. Anderson advised that, by EQB rule, any future project in the study area was exempt from further environmental review as long as the AUAR remained valid, with EQB rules specifying circumstances under which an AUAR became invalid, such as "substantial changes" occurring since the AUAR study was conducted that would demonstrate the study is substantially in error, or that environmental effects have been substantially underestimated. Mr. Anderson noted that the principal question for Council determination related to the petition, was whether the AUAR remained valid. Mr. Anderson advised that the EQB did not find the process for determining continuing validity of an AUAR as an alternative form or method of environmental review, but the EQB rules did require that a Twin Lakes Issues Process for Addressing the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EA W) Petition