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AttachmentD Policy 1.1: Promote and provide for informed and meaningful citizen participation in planning and review processes. The Community Development Department promotes and provides for such participation in accordance with the City Code. In the past and specifically regarding the proposed Walmart development, the Community Development Department has been criticized for not providing more notice or hearings or public meetings. The Community Development Department has provided the required notice under city ordinances and state statutes. Policy 1.2: Ensure that the City’s official controls are maintained to be consistent with the 2030 Land Use Plan. The Community Development Department finds that the zoning ordinance (City’s official control) was amended and adopted to be consistent with the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. Policy 1.3: Ensure high-quality design, innovation, sustainability, and aesthetic appeal in private and public development and redevelopment, with emphasis on efficient site access, appropriately sized parking areas, and overall beautification through the adoption and utilization of year-round landscaping and site design standards, guidelines, principles, and other criteria. All specific zoning districts of the zoning ordinance have some form of heightened design elements added that were not present in the previous ordinance. The CMU district and the regulating plan specific to the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area includes numerous heightened elements. The proposed Walmart building and site will be required to meet all requirements of the zoning ordinance and regulating plan. Policy 1.4: Maintain orderly transitions between different land uses in accord with the general land-use guidance of the Comprehensive Plan by establishing or strengthening development design standards. Section 1011 of City Code specifically regulates transitional needs between uses such as from commercial to residential. Policy 1.5: Promote well-planned and coordinated development. Since Roseville can’t compel coordinated development among Twin Lakes land owners, the Twin Lakes Regulating Plan was adopted into Section 1005 of City Code as a way to enforce certain planning and development principles to cause the piecemeal development to appear more coordinated. The Walmart development will need to meet these requirements. Policy 1.6: Encourage improvements to the connectivity and walkability between and within the community’s neighborhoods, gathering places and commercial areas through new development, redevelopment, and infrastructure projects. The zoning ordinance in general addresses this throughout the city, and Walmart will have to comply with all such applicable requirements. The CMU design standards and the regulating 5 Page15of27