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Roseville’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan has the necessary elements to qualify for 32 utilization of an AUAR. Since the proposed development represents about 160,000 33 square feet of retail space, it would not trigger a mandatory EAW in any location except 34 for an unincorporated area (Rule 4410.4300 subp. 14), nor would it trigger a mandatory 35 EIS (Rules 4410.4400 subp. 11). 36 2.3The relevant information in the Rules Part 4410.3610 subp. 2 says, essentially, that upon 37 completion of an AUAR, residential, commercial, warehousing, and light industrial 38 development projects and associated infrastructure within the AUAR’s study boundaries 39 that are consistent with the AUAR’s development assumptions are exempt from citizens’ 40 petitions for preparation of an EAW as long as the approval and construction of the 41 project complies with the conditions of the AUAR’s plan for mitigation. 42 2.4The EQB’s website provides a document titled “Reviewing Petitions: A Procedural 43 Guide for Local RGUs” containing instructions for how to address citizens’ petitions for 44 preparation of an EAW. While this document is, admittedly, imperfect, (the relevant Step 45 4 is poorly edited and incomplete) the EQB’s Executive Director has posited that the 46 incomplete criterion deals with standard exemptions. Thus, the Procedural Guide also 47 confirms that projects which conform to an AUAR and which do not require mandatory 48 EAW review cannot be petitioned for such review. 49 3.0RPW-MDWAUAR EVIEW OF THE ROPOSEDALARTEVELOPMENT ITHIN THE 50 3.1Having established above that an EAW requested through a citizens’ petition cannot be 51 required for a project which conforms to an AUAR and which does not require 52 mandatory EAW review, the next step is to determine whether the proposed Wal-Mart 53 development conforms to Roseville’s AUAR for the Twin Lakes redevelopment area; the 54 Twin Lakes AUAR, exclusive of its appendices, is included with this report as 55 Attachment B. 56 3.2The existing AUAR Update was adopted on October 15, 2007. Although Roseville’s 57 2030 Comprehensive Plan was updated in 2009, Planning Division staff believes that the 58 current Community Mixed Use (CMU) land use designation was intended to be—and 59 is—substantially consistent with the former Business Park (BP) designation referenced in 60 the AUAR. Some portions of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan were even developed with 61 the benefit of the information contained in the AUAR. For these reasons, Planning 62 Division staff believes that the AUAR continues to be a valid environmental review 63 instrument and will remain so until October 15, 2012, when it would need to be updated 64 again. 65 3.3The Twin Lakes AUAR Update map showing the AUAR’s overall boundary as well as 66 the internal Subareas (included with this report as Attachment C) indicates that the area 67 subject to the AUAR analysis encompasses the entirety of the Wal-Mart development as 68 well as any proposed or required infrastructure improvements related to the development. 69 3.4The AUAR analyzed three different Twin Lakes redevelopment scenarios for possible 70 environmental impacts. Scenario “A” is identified as the “worst case,” or the scenario 71 that would lead to the greatest potential for environmental impact. As explained in Item 7 72 of the AUAR, Scenario A was developed by reviewing the four different future land use 73 maps depicted in the 2001 Twin Lakes Business Park Master Plan (included with this 74 report as Attachment D) and assuming that each of the redevelopment Blocks was 75 developed with the most intensive of those possible future land uses in order to identify 76 PF12-001_RCA_EAW_052112 Page 2 of 3