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5.2 The City of Roseville's Coinprehensive Plan currently designates the subject area as `BP-Business Park." Furthermore, the Minnesota Court of Appeals' August 10, 2006 ruling concluded that the City further amended the Comprehensive Plan to reflect the Twin Lakes Business Park Master Plan (attached as Exhibit A) in 2001. The Master Plan specifically states: "[this] new master plan amendment of 2001 will designate the areas as `BP" — Business Park." The 2001 Master Plan also includes four future land-use maps ("Options 2, 3 and 4" and the "Twin Lakes AUAR Future Land Use Scenario") and several pages of text describing future land-use scenarios and goals. The conclusion that the intent of the 2001 Master Plan was to provide for a flexible mix of Business Park uses is further supported in a letter from the former City of Roseville staff people (Dennis Welsch and Cathy Bennett) who were the principle authors of the 2001 Master Plan. In that letter (Attached as Exhibit B), Mr. Welsch and Ms. Bennett conclude that the Master Plan was intended to provide a framework for a fleaible mix of Business Park uses and that the current proposal is consistent with that plan. 5.3 Staff has concluded (with the input of the City Attorney's Office), that the underlying Comprehensive Plan designation of the subject area is `BP — Business Park" in a manner that is conceptually consistent with the mix of uses and stated goals that are described in the maps and text of the 2001 Master Plan. 5.4 The uses envisioned within the Comprehensive Plan designation of "BP — Business Park" include: office, office-laboratory, office-showroom-warehousing, bio-technical, biomedical, high-tech softvvare and hardware production uses with support services such as limited retail, health, fitness, lodging and multifamily housing. While not specifically listed, it is presumed that "support services" would also include limited restaurant space. 5.5 The uses illustrated in the four maps and accompanying text of the 2001 Master Plan include: manufacturing, office, high-tech flex, housing, medical, service mix and retail mix. More specifically, those uses that are included solely in the Subject Area include: manufacturing, office, high-tech flex, housing and medical. 5.6 The table in Exhibit C illustrates that sub-areas within the subject area (identified in the 2001 Master Plan as "Opportunity Areas 1, 2, 3 and 5") further define uses that were envisioned within those sub-areas. By virtue of the fact that the land-uses described within each sub-area differ among each referenced land-use map contained in the 2001 Master Plan, staff has concluded that the spirit and intent of the 2001 Master Plan was to provide for a mix of the prescribed uses in a flexible manner. In fact, among the ten Goals and Policies included in the 2001 Master Plan is to "provide a flexible land use plan (page 3)." 5.7 In addition to the ten Goals and Policies of the 2001 Master Plan (pages 2 and 3), the Master Plan includes seven broad policies (pages 3 and 4) and twenty-four renewal strategies (pages 4— 8). In staff's review of the applicant's proposal, no aspect of that proposal has been identified as being in conflict with these goals, policies and strategies. Exhibit D provides an analysis of the manner in which the proposal addresses the goals of the 2001 Master Plan. PF3790_RPCA_GeneralConcept_l 10106 Page 3 of 14