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CIIT OF ROSEVILLE AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TWIN LAKES REDEVELOPMENT AREA September 1988 Introduction and Background The Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area is lo- cated in northern Roseville, from County Road C on the south to County Road C-2 on the north, and from Cleveland Avenue on the west to Snelling on the east. Within this area are two lakes: the southern end of Langton Lake between Cleveland and Fairview Avenues, and Oasis Pond near Snelling Ave- nue, hence the designa tion, Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area. When this area was being divided into parcels for sale, in the 1950's, it was attractive real estate for trucking firms looking for sites that were large, inexpensive, accessible to the high- way system, and close to both downtown Min- neapolis and St. Paul. As a result, the area in and around Snelling and Cleveland Avenues, and County Roads C and C2 became a major concentration in the Metropolitan Area of over-the-road trucking companies and related businesses, surviving as such into the 1980's. With federal deregulation of the trucking in- dustry in 1980, there was increased competi- tion for once fIXed routes and rates, and the face of the trucking industry nationwide was dramatically affected, inevitably affecting as well this portion of Roseville. In recent years we have seen trucking firms change routes and markets, reduce or move their operations, and even go out of business. In Roseville these changes have affected Murphy, ANR (formerly Garrett), Hart, Glendenning, CW Transport, and Ettinger, all of whom have moved from the area for one reason or an- other. Other trucking and related businesses in the area have been affected to varying degrees as well. The City's objective has been, and continues to be, to provide the opportunity for trucking firms to develop or redevelop their land for an appropriate higher intensity use at such time as they may choose. It is not the City's inten- tion to force trucking firms out, nor has it been in the past. In the case of three firms in the study area, Glendenning, ANR, and Indian- head, transactions resulting in redevelopment proposals have involved willing buyers and sel- lers, and rezoning to the B-4 district, which allows a wide variety of office, retail, and busi- ness uses, as well as allowing existing trucking uses to remain and expand. These rezonings have been adopted at the request of the land owners and not by the City's initiative. Quite apart from changes in the trucking in- dustry, Roseville has been growing and devel- oping at the same time. The area around Rosedale has witnessed some of the most dra- matic growth, with the shopping center itself expanding and remodelling in recent years, the development of 'restaurant row' and the Fair- dale Center to the west of Rosedale, the ap- pearance of two specialty shopping centers, Pavilion Place and Loehmann's Plaza, periph- eral to the regional center, and continued ex- pansion of the sphere of influence of Rosedale to areas that begin to include the area north of County Road C in the trucking area. This trend is seen in the development of the new Lido Restaurant and the Rosedale Square Shopping Center including a Byerly's grocery store, both north of the intersection of Snelling and County Road C, and the Centre Point Business Park under construction on Cleveland Avenue on the old Garrett site, con- sisting of high rise office and office/service buildings. The Costco warehouse club sought to develop a store on the Indianhead Trucking