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<br />)WEN STAFF WRITER 1.; .,.,', """'-c" ):' ~ "i", 't!!., ;' .' .. .'., ,,' .. .. .....~.;.\.;1. .'.j.:~.l... ....."<., A~dlhon. Durmg that hme. a
<br />,'. .' ....,. I, "'~ ,"' ':,d" i,F'ii ''',\, ;.t.." neIghborhood task force recom-
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<br />f]' ;;. ~:,.! . ",:; ~:'~i' .i.,...}::- ~ '. mended a planned umt develop- I
<br />a National Tire Warehouse .'I'j '<.: I "'I;:";~:" :1:'j :~;'1: ment of senior housing for the six-
<br />elang next to a Roseville ~" I !,ill ."', t, _,E'XIi.'JLi, ~- '''j:<'''; acre area
<br />[It, in a residential neigh- -_.....;;;.J~ ~-.I, -"". ''-~,-~-~~d~,' . IC:.; But th~ council did not adopt
<br />that's already hemmed in 06~ntXIRd.~.' " "~~":.:.,:! the recommendation. No housing
<br />r sides by commercial '~,' i/,. "0~' ',' 'proposals were on the table, offi.
<br />.nent? ;:',:r~ii;,', ': daIs. said, and further study
<br />'~e Roseville City Counci1~".?,:;:~ showed it would take either high-
<br />nday with a 3-2 vote that., " I@:~,: ',', density housing or city subsidies to
<br />ring a lawsuit over the, ..,,~" ", make such a plan work. In April
<br />)f a 1.86-acre parcel of the council allowed the moratori~
<br />ng Snelling Avenue, north urn to expire, citing lack of "
<br />jale Shopping Center an~ progress toward a solution.
<br />losebroo!t Park. The. RosevilIe Planning
<br />luncH denied a conditional- Commission earlier this month
<br />nit for the tire and auto recommended approval of the '
<br />~ sales and service busi- National Tire conditional-use per-
<br />:pite an opinion from the mit.
<br />mey that evidence to sup- But Monday, Maschka and City
<br />denial was l\lcking and Council members'Donn Wiski and
<br />~H would have a difficult business is inconsistent'with.the zo~ing ,woul~ allow !TIuch more John Goedeke were willing to con.
<br />mding its action. . city's comprehensive. plan. The, intensive business. use's of the sider,other solutions. Maschka said
<br />e council majority said councij directed City Attorney property' without a conditional-use, the city should "put some money
<br />idents of the James Mitch Converse to prepare find- permit. The permit was"required in, down-zone that area and create
<br />have ,Put up with enough ings to support the denial oithe because the . proposed use is an a tax-increment financing district" ,
<br />ld nOIse and it's time to conditional-use permit. auto repair business. for housing.
<br />se better-suited to the The property in question is part The ~nights ~f. Columbus runs a . Wiski, however, said the city
<br />~ther that be senior hous- of a six-acre commercial area in bingo operation to the south of the, wouldn't necessarily have to buy
<br />ess intrusive business. the southeast portion of the neigh- property and has proposed' sharjng property or use TIF. Instead; he
<br />~eighborhood has been borbood, which is bounded by National .Tire's parking. Just to said, it could rezone the property
<br />~d," Council Member Fairview and Snelling' Avenues, the west is the Kings Court.'rac- . for limited business, moderate-den-
<br />chka said. "We've gotten County Road C and the retail ceo- quetbaU club, which' also is for sity housin'g or a mixed~use devel~ I
<br />lenefit off it," he added, ters on the north side of. County sale, although owner Frank Rog' opment "and "let the marketplace '
<br />to the commercial tax Road B2. The neighborhood 'said Tuesday'he wants what the' . work." .
<br />has developed around. includes 176 single-family.~Om:es. neighbors. want for his land - " . Wall and Mastel said Tuesday
<br />Addition. 'The land National Tfre' and housing.. ;" : l' ""--d' . the council should have acted long
<br />senters - Mayor Dan Battery is 'seeking'to buy-'irom . .Rog said the pres~ticeof a, tire . ago if it wanted to rezone. "Why
<br />Council Member Barb Knights of Columbus is the'site of center would interfere3vith a pro- was ,this not brought up last year
<br />said they don't want to the formei Polar Food Locker, posed he's 're'ceived from or six months ago or three months
<br />warehouse there, either, and its "B2" business zoning sur- Dominium ,developers for afford- ago or two weeks ago?" Wail
<br />;ee no a}ternative. "It's vived. the adoption~nd amend- able senior housing. --- 'asked.
<br />, Wall said of the ware- ment of Roseville's compre~ensive The National Tire proposal has'
<br />, but "the zoning is the plan. " . , been hanging fire during a, year~
<br />In 'fact, as National Tire repre- long City moratorium on' commer-
<br />:ial motion said the tire' sentatives pofuted out Monday that cia I development in the James
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<br />Linda Owen can 'be reached at 481'()285
<br />. or via t"mall at lowen@pioneerpre~s.
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