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A <br />/i� 1 <br />JUNE 26, 2009 <br />-. <br />.. <br />�outh ��'�'est �_"���� rea <br />��oseville .���onitor (����VARIVI) <br />ROSEVILLE, MN <br />VOL I, #2 <br />Asphalt Plant Stalls At City Council; <br />Citizens' Petition Requires More Review <br />"WhBt is not go0d 7une 15`h Council Meeting: A major new development with <br />fOr the Swarm iS not Potentially significant impact upon southwest Roseville's <br />good for the bee." neighborhoods came to a temporary halt when Mayor Craig Klausing <br />announced at the June 15t" City Council meeting that a state agency <br />MarcusAurelius, had received a citizens' petition that very day and the City had been <br />subsequently notified that it could not proceed with any action on this <br />Roman Emperor project at its meeting. The project, a new Asphalt Plant, had received <br />Planning Commission approval in May after a"public hearing" at <br />which no residents appeared, and city staff was recommending the <br />Our Goal: Council conditionally approve the plant on June 15�n <br />NeighborhOOdS All public notices and agendas, whether Planning Commission or City <br />� Informed Council, have continually described this asphalt plant proposal as <br />follows: Request by Bituminous Roadways for a conditional use <br />� Educated permit to allow outdoor storage of aggregate materials and heavy <br />equipment at 2280 Walnut Street. <br />� Heard! <br />Without Bees there'd <br />be no Flowers, <br />Without Flowers <br />there'd 6e no Roses, <br />And without Roses <br />where would Roseuille <br />be? <br />Only in the detail of various staff papers does it become apparent that <br />the referenced "outdoor storage" involved asphalt and concrete <br />stockpiles and heavy equipment "in support of the operation of an <br />asphalt plant at 2280 Walnut StreeY'. Not only would there be <br />stockpiles of crushed old asphalt but a new asphalt plant—with <br />smokestack--attached. <br />News to the Neighborhood: Over the weekend prior to the council <br />meeting this veil of innocuous words and inadequate notice abruptly <br />came down when neighborhood residents closest to the asphalt plant <br />became aware of the proposal, and started calling each other. Ten <br />residents of the North Midland Hills neighborhood attended the <br />Monday night Council meeting, only after discovering the Asphalt <br />Plant nature of the proposal that weekend; this newsletter had been <br />