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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Roseville, Minnesota, that it adopts and memorializes the following findings regarding the subject application for a conditional use permit: Findings: 1. Section 1004.02CIO of the Roseville Zoning code allows cemeteries as a conditional use within the R-1, Single Family Residence District. Ordinance 1072 specifies that no cemetery, place of burial, or crematorium of the dead human person shall be established or set apart, nor shall any existing cemeteries or crematoriums be enlarged without a permit issued by the City Council (City Code Section 401.01) 2. The issuance of a conditional use permit under Section 1013 of the Code requires the consideration of the following matters: Compatibility with adjoining properties Impacts on traffic and public facilities Impacts on property value Impacts on general health, safety, and public welfare Compatibility with the Roseville Comprehensive Plan. 3. The proposed use will emit "criteria" pollutants and "toxic" pollutants (Source: Materials submitted by applicant, All Crematory, Anne Jackson et al.). 4. Emission of these toxic materials is not practically avoidable or controllable under current cremation processes (Source: Environmental information from Industrial Equipment and Engineering Co., 6/21/2001). 5. The emission of mercury, hydrogen chloride, and other pollutants from the proposed crematory adds to the risk of exposure to these public health dangers for the residents, businesses and users of public facilities in the vicinity of the proposed crematory. 6. Currently, the cremation rate in the United States is approximately 24%. Within the next 10 years it is anticipated that the demand for cremation services will increase nearly 70%. (Source: Letter ofErny Czirok dated June 29, 2001). 7. In Minnesota cremations have increased from 1,622 in 1969 to 10,950 in 1999, and Ramsey County statistics parallel the increased use of cremation (Source: MN. Department of Health, City Community Development Staff Research, 6/14/01). 8. For 2000, the statewide cremation percentage was 30.30% or about 32 per day (Source: fax from Timothy J. Koch dated 7/23/01). 9. Updated Federal and state standards regarding crematory emissions, location, and operating procedures have not yet been promulgated to adequately address the growing use of cremation, nor developments in medical science such as brachytherapy that that could introduce an additional environmental health threat, in spite ofthe 1990 Federal Clean Air Act amendments that require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop new source performance standards and emission guidelines for crematories. 2