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<br />8. Introduce hi-tech commwrications through fiber optic cable to <br />assist in non-line" shopping and delivery, as well as medical <br />selVlceS. <br /> <br />9. Provide incentive to redevelop an existing tmder leased <br />shopping center and reduce impervious surtaces. <br /> <br />Hamline Commons will assist a first ring city (Roseville) to complete <br />redevelopment of an existing tmder performing (less than 500.10 leased) 40 year <br />old shopping center into a community asset. The project will add 120 housing <br />tmits with over 40,000 s.f. of new first floor neighborhood retail and <br />neighborhood office and educational services on approximately 6.0 acres. The <br />Hamline Commons will be transit and pedestrian fiiendly for the <br />neighborhood and will provide a central gathering place for visitors to the <br />center, seniors within the complex and the SUITOtmding residential <br />neighborhood. <br /> <br />The Hamline Commons will provide tmdergrotmd parking to minimize the <br />impervious SUIface and maximize density and green space as well as linkages <br />through improvements to the pathways and sidewalk systems to the adjoining <br />multifamily neighborhood sUITOtmding the project area. <br /> <br />The Hamline Commons area is part of an 85 acre campus of single family, <br />duplex, senior condominium, market rate apartments, 2 churches and 66,000 <br />s.( of retail, 2 office buildings totaling over 50,000 s.(, and subsidized senior <br />and family housing. In addition. the city owns 14 acres of nearby recreation <br />land with a city recreation center (Arena Center) which is scheduled for <br />redevelopment to mixed use, intergenerational and multi level income housing <br />redevelopment within the next 2 years. <br /> <br />The Hamline Commons project is consistent with the City's Comprehensive <br />Plan (Section 4, Land Use, Planning District 3, page 3) which projects that the <br />existing shopping center, currently located within a mixed residential area, <br />could redevelop as a smaller neighborhood center accompanied by additional <br />multi-family structures. The property in currently designated on the <br />comprehensive plan for medium density housing and business uses. The <br />zoning on the site is "SC", a shopping center designation. A planned tmit <br />development will be created to accommodate the Hamline Commons project. <br /> <br />11. Special Features <br /> <br />Life Cycle Commercial DevelopllU!nt - The proposal includes both retail and <br />commercial space that will target the needs of the housing above and provide for <br /> <br />Page 5 <br />