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at weak land uses that are not i. These are not the highest and best uses of this land from the standpoint of the land: This once beautiful and still potentially beautiful land is being used as a huge outdoor parking lot and storage area for over one thousand truck trailers. ii. Storage of over one thousand truck trailers is not the highest and best use for this land for Roseville as a city and a community. These dilapidated trucking terminals create little to no benefit to the vast majority of Roseville residents. For the most part, Roseville residents don't work at Twin Lakes; it is not a significant job generator. Roseville residents can't live in the designated redevelopment area; there is no housing in the redevelopment area and it isn't zoned for housing. Roseville residents don't benefit from the minimal taxes being paid there; the assessed value of those parcels for tax purposes is not large. Roseville residents and visitors can only drive by Twin Lakes and regret what has happened to that once beautiful land. c. Starting over with an RFP process runs counter to what we have learned in trying to redevelop Twin Lakes over the last 15 years. Over those 15 years while the City was already creating one TIF district at Twin Lakes (for the Ryan projects there) and undertaking a master planning process for the area, no one - not Rottlund, the current interim master developer (and primarily a housing developer), not Ryan, the former master developer, not any other developer, and not the residents and other persons who participated in the development of the 2001 Master Plan - none of those persons or companies have ever created or suggested a redevelopment plan for Twin Lakes that is based entirely or primarily on housing. That is because of how busy Cleveland and County C are due to the I-35W onlofframp and how noisy that elevated segment ofI-35W can be for adjacent properties. In short, the corner and the onlofframp area are extremely inhospitable to housing. Thus, the redevelopment scenario for Twin Lakes has always been a mixed use plan consisting of some retail, some office, and some housing. There is not now, and there has never been, a developer for a housing-only or almost-all-housing scenano. i. And, while the amount of retail anticipated in the two sketches that emerged from the Stakeholder process is larger than the amount of retail recommended in the 2001 Twin Lakes Master Plan, those sketches from the Stakeholder process still outline a project that would build much more housing value than retail value. ii. Remember that the traffic that is generated under either of the two Stakeholder sketches is less than the traffic generated under the current 3