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Mayor and City Council Members City of RoseviJle September 29, 2000 Page 4 Secondly, we have a much more substantial concern about the screening which is required for any 24-hour use. The ordinance only requires something with a height of 6 feet, which could be something as unattractive as a chain link fence with a plastic covering. However, because you are allowed the evaluate this as a conditional use, the City has a great deal more flexibility in requiring more a.ttractive screening, such as landscaping and berms. In this regard, I hope the Council will be extremely specific about which boundaries of Ham line Center will need to be screened. The parking required for this operation could be in severaJ locations around the Center, and the Center , is virtua.l1y surrounded (except for the office and Roseville CovenaI\t Church) by residential areas. Accordingly, the screening should be on all appropriate bounda1"ies of the Center, and should include extensive landscaping, as opposed to merely chain link fences. An enclosed survey of1he property indicates that, because parking is located very closely to the property boundaries, there may be minimal room for appropriate screening, without removing existing parking spaces. Obviously, this would only exacerbate the existing parking deficiency. All of this soggests that this is not an appropriate location for this proposed 24-bour use. ' -. IV. Impositio.n 9f Additional Conditions. As we indicated at the meeting, we hope that, if this conditional use is approved, a number of additional conditions not previously suggested by Staff wiJI be imposed. The specific suggestions are as follows: A. Limit the l1umber of permitted seats to 300. B. Limit the permitted games to bingo and pull tabs. C. Prohibit tbe possession or seNing of alcohol on the premises. D. Impose a parking and traffic circulation plan, to accommodate the "surges" of traffic when the game sessions begin and end, and to accommodate the needs of existing merchants for short term parking. E. Impose additional conditions such as those indicated in Section 303.08, regulating "amusement devices". V. ~Iternate Locations. As indicated by Pastor Carlson, the Church is not opposed to gambling in every location in RosevilJe, but feels that this location is inappropriate, for all of the reasons mentioned above. It has come to our attention that a number of alternate sites for this operation are available. In particular, the former "Lyndale Ga.rden Center" is available, and apparently, its owner and The gambling operators have expressed an interest in leasing that facility. As you know, it is direct1y adjacent to the Knigh~ of Columbus Building where the existing charitable gambJing operation is located. I believe that this property coDtajns about 10,000 leaseable square feet, and has more thane J lis d 6Sgg9V29gS 'ON/6t: 2 [ 'lS/2s: 81 00 i6~ '60 (IHd) WOHd