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Paul. With the federal deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980s, the trucking industry nationwide was dramatically affected, which inevitably affected this portion of Roseville. It has resulted in trucking terminals reducing, moving or consolidating their operations, and in some cases, even going out of business. This in turn affected the businesses that support the trucking activities in the area. Faced with this change and potential deterioration of the area in 1988, the City designated the area as the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area and created a tax increment financing district to assist with its long-range redevelopment. The City, with the assistance of the consulting fIrm of Dahlgren, Shardlowand Uban, developed a land use plan, which called for the redevelopment of the area to provide a variety of office, retail, business and light industrial uses. (Refer to 1988 Twin Lakes Boundary Map). The City submitted it for review by the Metropolitan Council, and the Metropolitan Council asked for additional information concerning retail traffic and its impact on 1-35W. At the same time, community sUlVey results indicated that citizens felt that there was no need for more retail development in the City. As a result, the City withdrew its proposed Twin Lakes Plan from Metropolitan Council review and determined that there should be additional mixed-use office and light industrial in the area rather than retail. This could be accomplished under the existing Comprehensive Plan and zoning. The City adopted the redevelopment plan as part of a major Comprehensive Plan amendment approved in 1994. III. Goals and Policies In addition to the general land use and the commercial industrial goals and policies of the City of Roseville (Section 3 of the Comprehensive Plan) the Twin Lakes Business Park Land Use Plan embodies the following policies: 1) The City encourages office and office-high tech assembly, and medical and biotech uses where they have immediate access to County Road and freeway. 2) The City encourages limited, integrated or mixed-use "support" retail, restaurant and lodging uses in appropriate locations, where customers will have easy access from their job locations in Twin Lakes Business Park and from the Rosedale area. 3) The City encourages a mix of office and high-tech uses with multiple residential uses where they can take advantage of the amenities offered by the parks west and south of Oasis Park, and in a mixed Office!Residential area on the west and southeast sides of Langton Lake, In effect the multiple residence areas become the "new edge" to the existing adjoining residential areas, 4) The City allows existing non-conforming uses, most notably the trucking operatio ns, to remain as pre-existing, nonconforming uses until a more compatible, permitted business park use succeeds the trucking use, If the City should decide to rezone, the City will adopt zoning or a planned unit development in which these non -conforming uses may remain, but will be encouraged to move to newer, more environmentally 2