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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 21,2012 Page 27 Ms. Gilbertson shared crime statistics that she had researched from the Ramsey County Sheriff's office, and incidents at the Vadnais Heights Wal-Mart Store over a five (5) year period, and comparing those statistics between Wal-Mart and the Target store in that same vicinity at 975 and 850 County Road E respec- tively. Mr. Gilbertson reviewed the number and type of calls. Ms. Gilbertson also referenced her discussions with Roseville Police Lt. Loren Rosand and Chief Mathwig for their anticipated annual call rate of between 900-1000 calls with this Wal-Mart development in Roseville, exclusive of related officer, squad car and support staff costs. Megan Dushin,2249 St. Stephen Street(SWARN) Ms. Dushin opined that legal language could be interpreted as anyone's discre- tion; however, she further opined that the City Council had sufficient language in the Comprehensive Plan and other documents to fully support its denial of this proposed development. Ms. Dushin referenced CMU zoning provisions, regional trip calculations, and definition of this as a regional business, questioning the logic in such a defini- tion for this proposed use. Ms. Dushin referenced Chapter 4 (page 8) of the Comprehensive Plan for definitions of Regional Business and various sections (1005.051) included as Attachment C in the meeting packet (page 3) related to surface parking on large development sites, and other areas this did not meet re- quirements. Ms. Dushin asked why these discrepancies were not being ad- dressed. Gary Grefenberg, 91 Mid Oaks Lane (SWARN) Mr. Grefenberg referenced the written comments of SWARN in making his points in opposition to this development. Mr. Grefenberg alleged that staff had been proposing and advocating for this development all along, whether at the Planning Commission or City Council level. Mr. Grefenberg opined that SWARN disputed whether or not the Comprehensive Plan or the Twin Lakes Master Plan ever recommended a development of this type. Mr. Grefenberg stated that, as part of the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee, on which he had participated, he had been led to believe that the Twin Lakes Master Plan would be incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan; however, something hap- pened between the Steering Committee final recommendation and City Council adoption of the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Grefenberg alleged that staff selec- tively picked what they thought was or was not important; without any findings of fact presented to the Planning Commission. Mr. Grefenberg opined that the Comprehensive Plan recommended against this type of big box retailer; and if the Twin Lakes Master Plan had been made a part of the Comprehensive Plan, that specific prohibition against large scale retail operations, which a lot of citi- zens had spent time debating, there would be no current dispute or consideration of this type of development.