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AttachmentB The staff spin at thetime the Comprehensive Plan was being formulated was that this would be a compact between the residents of Roseville and its city government,, This is the message most Roseville residents who participated in the public process resulting in the Comprehensive Plan heard at the time of the recollection reiterated in the testimony of several residents at the May 21st City Council discussion on the plat division. To argue that the Comprehensive Plan does not prohibit Big Box Retail and thus the Wal-Mart development is consistent with the Plan is a reductio adabsurdum argument, as if every prohibited use needs to be specifically cited. That has never been the criteria for previous decisions by the City acting as a zoning authority, and so its use as a justification in this case is spurious. The Comp Plan is provides guidance for future development. It is intended to lay out the goals and objectives for future land use which the Zoning Code then is instructed by state law to codify. The very first two paragraphs of the 2030 Comp Plan state its purpose as follows: The Comp Plan must reflect the land use described in the Comp Plan. The legal codification of Comp Plan was the blueprint for the Zoning Code development, and not a The zoning ordinance is clearly an official control, and we also question whether the Financial Agreement for this development is not a fiscal device. SWARN Appeal--July 2, 2012 7 Page7of18