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property, which is zoned 1-1, Light Industrial District, and is occupied by a use that has heavy industrial characteristics. Two corners of the Hamline Avenue/C~unty Road B intersection are zoned B-3 General Business District and most of the west side of Hamline Avenue, with the exception of just three residential lots, has been zoned B-3 and B-1, in response to the high traffic volumes on this arterial street. The southwest corner of the intersection is zoned B-1 and the northeast corner is .occupied by the library. Of major importance is the 6-story Roseville Professional Center office development which is zoned B-1 and located to the north of the Sandhurst Drive residential area. This building is sited just 50 feet from the residential property line and within 180 feet' of the nearest residence. All of the land to the west of the Sandhurst Drive area is zoned B-1 B, Limited Business District. In the Roseville Professional Center facility, the City has established a zoning and precedent for dissimilar uses immediately adjacent to the subject site. This suggests that an office use and a responsible massing of an office building (or buildings) should be approved for Everest on the subject property. Library Expansion Concluding with the construction of a new larger Roseville Library in 1993, the Ramsey County Library Board conducted extensive facilities planning beginning in at least 1985 and evaluated a broad range of alternative locations and concepts for a headquarters library within the Ramsey County system. One of the first site specific options discussed with the City of Roseville, in March of 1987, included the expansion of the existinQ Roseville library to the east, which would have included the acquisition of several homes which face directly onto Dellwood Street. The City's Planning Consultant, Howard Dahlgren, correctly disagreed with that proposal and properly counseled the Library Board and Administration not to expand easterly to Dellwood. The expansion of the library into the Dellwood Street neighborhood may well have had a deleterious effect on property values and the residential neighborhood. Mr. Dahlgren recommended that the County instead acquire at least three single-family homes (owned by Everest) to the north, This recommendation and the City Council's subsequent favorable response demonstrated that the subject site should not be reserved for long-term residential use and that it was clearly considered a less sacred residential area than Dellwood Heights. Consistent with Mr. Dahlgren's concerns for easterly expansion, the Library Board ultimately pursued an alternative which led to the expansion of the library site in a northerly direction, utilizing three of the Everest residential lots. The County's determination to expand to the north, on residential lots fronting on Hamline, and the City's clear encouragement and support thereof, also demonstrates the commercial character of the subject property and its appropriate redesignation for office use in the Comprehensive Plan. The library, although a publicly-owned facility, functions as a high traffic commercial use, including significant evening and weekend traffic. ~