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residents." The request for medium density was made earlier this year by AI Kehr, who planned to tur~bis three sites on W. County Road C into a multi-family development. "I am really at a loss on bow to vote on this - this is. a very diffi- cult decision to make," Council Member John Goedeke said. "I don't think this type of housing affects the neighborhood as much as people think it will. And 1 will have to go along with the idea that this area should be designat- ed medium density residential." Goedeke later changed his mind and voted against the density shift. . "I did not have a hard time making up my mind. You can see all the statistics you want, but 1 think impact is in the eye of the beholder," Council Member Barb Mastel said. "I just don't think tllis project fits into this neigh~- hood and I can't support anythmg that doesn't fit into our city." The process that got the request to its final vote was a complicated one and DelU1is Welsch, the city's community development director, said staff recommendations went back and forth a few times. At the March 9 Planning Commission meeting, the com- mission recommended to tbe council the approval of AI Kebr's request to cbange the Comprehensive Plan land use designation on his property to medium density . residential, Welsch said. The commission also requested the entire area between the Kebr and Dale Street and the American Legion proper- ty also be evaluated for a poten- tialland use change. The City Council took no action on the Kehr property at its March 28 meeting, delaying action until after the Planning Commission holds another hearing and makes a second recommendatiOQ. And then at the April 13 Planning Commission meeting, U." lallU UIIC UClll1;;lIaUUII - 1I1(;IOU- ing the Kebr property. "Tbe commission fite<JJbe lack of sUPport frolD adjoiningneigb- bors(o the west, tJ¡e American Legion and the Qwnersto the east of the Kehr property," Welsch said. But on May 11, the commission reconsidered its previous contra- dictory recommendations· of May 9 and April 13 and recommended the change from low to. medium density for the land, including the Kehr property. Increased traffic in the area and a loss of wildlife were two of the concerns residents expressed which Council Member Pat Johnson heard them loud and clear. "I will not support this proposal because there is a balance in that area and I do think the increased traffic will affect the quality of life for those resideñts," Johnson said. Not only will the traffic affect the reside1,1ts, but the decrease in open land will change the chara~- ter of the neighborhood, one resI- dent said "I live directly across from the proposed development ând if this goes through we won't see fox anymore, or deer and owls," sbe said. "My young cbildren stay up to all hours of the nigbt in the summer to watcb the owls in the trees over there. If this happens, we will feel more like a St.Paul neigbborbood than a Roseville one." Even tbougb this proposal failed, Mayor Jobnsonsaid it .is only one of many areas 10 Roseville ·'on the taþle" as the council looks at long-tenn land use in updating the city's Comprebensive Plan. "Our staff has been working on a IS-year Comprebensive ~lan and this request comes fust because Mr. Kebr pushed his up," Johnson said. "But there will be many more sites that we will be looking at in the future." . ~.