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Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Page 24 residents perceiving Roseville to be suburban versus urban in nature. Member 1186 Cunningham opined that she wasn’t convinced that the recommended amendment to the 1187 motion would serve to help that perception or even put a bandage on it. 1188 Member Boguszewski admitted that he was unsure how this would play out, and along 1189 Cope and Lovell Avenues and Dale Street, with the location of the swale, the project 1190 property would not be touching up against existing suburban style homes, even though 1191 the next one could do so. 1192 Member Cunningham questioned if throwing out another arbitrary number was going to 1193 achieve the desired goal. 1194 Member Boguszewski responded that he didn’t know, but his concern was with existing 1195 properties and the exterior of this urban type development, not so much what happens 1196 within it. 1197 Aside from this current motion, Member Cunningham asked staff if there were other 1198 things that could be done, since the consensus among the Commission seems to be that 1199 it is an issue; could anything else be done to address it. 1200 From his perspective, Mr. Paschke advised that he was still wrestling with what was 1201 actually trying to be fixed, or what was the impact. From his perspective as a City 1202 Planner, as well as among his colleagues, Mr. Paschke advised that the consideration is 1203 what could be done with a site versus what was being proposed. Mr. Paschke noted that 1204 under current language, structures and driveways could be placed much closer to the 1205 property line; and what true impact was being mitigated or eliminated; and were there 1206 protections in place to address that. Mr. Paschke opined that what was being proposed 1207 wasn’t serving to alleviate anything, only making the proposed GMHC project more 1208 difficult to develop, with the types of housing structures not that impactful to what they 1209 would be located adjacent to. If this was a proposal for an apartment complex, Mr. 1210 Paschke admitted that then he could see the concerns, but essentially this was a type of 1211 single-family home proposed adjacent to another single-family home. 1212 Member Boguszewski opined that the issue was density, basically five single-family 1213 homes; with Mr. Paschke clarifying that only two of those impacted this development. 1214 Member Boguszewski noted that this was the case with the GMHC proposal, but there 1215 could be up to ten homes impacted in another future project. 1216 Chair Gisselquist, while being sympathetic to divorcing the GMHC project from this 1217 discussion, opined that if the body voted “nay,” it would serve to delay the project. Chair 1218 Gisselquist opined that, if that project wasn’t hanging over him, he would delay the vote 1219 to have further time to consider the implications; however, he was feeling pressured to 1220 move forward due to that project. 1221 Member Murphy spoke to what problem was being solved based on what the proposed 1222 table could allow based on various scenario and other potential redevelopments amid 1223 other single-family dwellings throughout the community. Member Murphy advised that his 1224 intent was to protect existing single-family dwellings from MDR properties. 1225 Member Boguszewski opined that if there was a way to provide that protection to existing 1226 neighborhoods by simply amending the numbers in the Table, he was against that, as 1227 others redevelopments may be fine or may not, but needed protection. Member 1228 Boguszewski further opined that rather than changing a few things here to allow this 1229 project to succeed, he would prefer to guide future development and not hurt existing 1230 dwellings. 1231 Member Daire opined that, if in future developments, using the suggested setbacks from 1232 30’ to 45’ and 5’ to 10’ as suggested by Member Boguszewski, it may create difficulties 1233 for other sites. However, Member Daire noted that the Variance process was available in 1234 those instances to relieve those pressures. 1235