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4.0B ACKGROUND 15 4.1The subject properties, located in Planning District 4, have Comprehensive Plan Land 16 Use Designations of Low-Density Residential (LR) and Parks & Open Space (POS) and 17 respective zoning classifications of Low-Density Residential-1 (LDR-1) and Parks & 18 Recreation (PR) Districts. 19 4.2Because the subject residential properties are all exceptionally shallow, east to west, the 20 Lake Josephine County Park begins very near to the backs of the houses and, over time, 21 residential landscaping, play structures, and storage sheds have inadvertently encroached 22 into the park property. The present application seeks to correct this by trading a portion 23 of the southernmost residential property to the park in exchange for an equivalent amount 24 of land from the park to be distributed among the residential properties. Should the 25 application be approved, Ramsey County intends to install some kind of property markers 26 (perhaps discreet fiberglass posts) to better identify the park boundary and prevent future 27 encroachments. 28 4.3The actual realignment of the property boundaries (i.e., the 29 RECOMBINATION MINOR ) as proposed has been approved by Ramsey County, and could be approved 30 SUBDIVISION by the City Council without a public hearing but for the other essential aspects of the 31 overall "land swap," as the multi-part application has come to be known. The park land is 32 designated as a park in Roseville's Comprehensive Plan and zoned for park-type uses in 33 the zoning code; likewise, the residential properties are designated in the Comprehensive 34 Plan and zoned for residential-type uses. The seemingly simple act of shifting the 35 property boundaries to incorporate what has been residential land into a park property (or 36 to incorporate what has been park land into a residential property) doesn't change the 37 underlying regulatory characteristics of that land area. Therefore, if the application would 38 only realign the property boundaries, each of the residential properties would have a strip 39 of land which they could not use for residential purposes (e.g., they couldn't put their 40 garden shed on that strip of park-zoned land), and the County park would have a patch of 41 land which they could only use for building a house. Because of this, the overall 42 application also includes a proposed CLUP and 43 OMPREHENSIVE ANDSELAN MAP CHANGE so that the entire land area of the park has the appropriate 44 ZONING MAP CHANGE Comprehensive Plan and zoning characteristics, and so the entirety of each of the 45 residential properties is also suitably guided and zoned for one-family residential use. 46 4.4An applicant seeking approval a CLUP and/or 47 OMPREHENSIVE ANDSELAN MAP CHANGE is required to hold an open house meeting to inform the 48 ZONING MAP CHANGE surrounding property owners and other interested individuals of the proposal, to answer 49 questions, and to solicit feedback. The open house for this application was held on March 50 16, 2013; the summary of the open house meeting provided by the applicant is included 51 with this staff report as Attachment C. 52 4.5This request has a Planning File number referencing 2011 rather than 2013 because the 53 application seemed poised to proceed following the approval from the Ramsey County 54 Board of Commissioners. The Planning File opened at that time is being used today, 55 despite the fact that two years have passed while sorting out title, financing, and other 56 details, simply to avoid redundant or “empty” files in City records. 57 PF11-009_RCA_052013.doc Page 3 of 5