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MemorandUll1 To: Neal Beats CC: John Kysylyczyn, Dean Maschka, Greg Schroeder, and Tom Kough From: Craig Klausing Date: June 12, 2002 Re: HRA Introduction I understand that staff has reached the conclusion that an HRA is desirable for Roseville. Knowing staff I assume that conclusion was reached after an analysis that logically moved from assumption "A" to assumption "B" to reach conclusion "C" (or more precisely "HRA"). Either because of a failure on my part to understand the analysis, or because the analysis has not been thoroughly explained, or possibly because the analysis itself is faulty, this logical progression is not clear to me. To help me understand the thinking behind this recommendation, I've put together some questions that I have regarding this proposal. If you have time to put together written responses, great. Otherwise, I would like these questions to be part of our discussion concerning an HRA. Genesis of HRA Idea Where did the idea for an HRA originate? Often in the "background" section of our materials we have a history of how an issue reached the council. For example, that the council had directed staff to initiate an examination of an issue, or a citizens group had requested that we study something. Where did the idea of an HRA originate? Is this something that staff has been kicking around for years? Is this something that we (the council) initiated either as a group or individually? To the extent that you can, explain how this idea originated. If this was a council directed action I realize that you are not going to be privy to the thinking of individual council members. However, if this idea originated with staff I would be interested in knowing the "how" of the idea. For example, if a staff person attended a seminar where housing issues were being discussed and one of the speakers talked about HRAs as being the be all and end all for housing issues. Or, if staff was attempting to pursue a particular development plan, but were frustrated by their