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-. Hi Bryan, ,. Thank you for the information you have provided, and the information regarding withdrawal of the application. The T4C Trustees will discuss our options over the next few days. I would like to know how long we have, i.e. a date, to withdraw the application if we do decide to do that. Have a great weekend. �.Ti Please note that my email address has changed to ron.wong@delta.com Ronald Wong Manager, Interiors Engineering Cabin Electrical/ZFE Delta Air Lines Phone: 612-726-3424 Cell: 612-387-9039 Fax: 612-726-6844 -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Lloyd [mailto:bryan.11oyd@ci.roseville.mn.us] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 1:06 PM To: Wong, Ron M Subject: zoning amendment application Hi, Mr. Wong. Since your submittal seeking a zoning text amendment to allow churches and/or religious institutions within the General Business (B-3) District - as either permitted or conditional uses, the Planning staff has had extensive discussions about the application in light of Roseville's newly-adopted Comprehensive Plan, a zoning text amendment, and uses within the B- 3 District. We have concluded that a church or religious institution is appropriate on land guided by the Comprehensive Plan for Institutional uses, and that the Comprehensive Plan does not indicate that institutional uses are appropriate for areas, like the former Denny Hecker property, which are guided for Regional eusiness uses. While the sort of traffic impact anticipated with the various aspects of the proposed use is not inconsistent with other appropriate uses, we've determined that the Comprehensive Plan means to reserve the valuable land in Regional Business areas for revenue-generating, commercial uses. There are, of course, situations in which a revenue-producing property could be made tax-exempt through a change in property ownership - even though the use of the property is essentially unchanged - and the City would have no control over such situations, but the City has the opportunity to deny a proposed change in the zoning rules that would allow a new tax-exempt use. I want to be clear that our resistance to the proposal has nothing whatsoever to do with the religious aspect of a church. Instead, churches, schools, theater companies, museums, and a broad range of other typically not-for-profit uses fit into the "Institutional" land use category of the Comprehensive Plan, which directs such institutional uses to places outside of what have become the primary revenue-generating areas of the city. Moreover, in the process of reviewing T4C's zoning amendment application, we've discovered that the current B- 3 zoning allows many uses that are very similar to the proposed church use as you've pointed out; we'll have to reevaluate these uses during the current zoning update process to ensure that the new zoning code contributes to achieving the goals of Roseville's Comprehensive Plan. While no vacant property is specifically guided by the Comprehensive Plan for new institutional uses, a"Community Mixed Use" area (generally northeast of County Road C and I-