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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 9, 2015 Page 20 even through creating a moratorium on development to determine what made sense. Under the current setting, Chair Maschka noted that it seemed the City Council and community continued to react to proposed developments and that situation continued to create a nightmare situation for neighbors and the City Council. Chair Maschka questioned and suggested City Council discussion at their upcoming retreat for the possibility of again seeking a master developer under city control for this area. • Chair Maschka noted the need to address the changing nature of retail, using the Har Mar Mall as an example of the bar for new tenants being lowered ra- ther than raised. Chair Maschka noted another change in the retail landscape was internet retail and the bricks and mortar retail moving toward experiential aspects. Chair Maschka suggested further discussion with Rosedale as to how they saw themselves fitting in the community as the "Golden Goose" as part of that consideration. • Chair Maschka noted the need to review and reconsider the overall entire transportation aspect for Roseville and area access, including other agencies and jurisdictions (e.g. MnDOT) in how to improve that in order for Roseville to remain successful. • Chair Maschka noted that the Har Mar Mall area provided great opportunities with land and space for a transportation corridor;but questioned impacts if the bookstore and grocery store move out as tenants. Chair Maschka suggested future impacts the City Council may wish to consider, similar to Brooklyn Park's West Side as one possibility. Chair Maschka opined that the City Council, once it determined its priorities and metrics, could then direct staff on where they saw the City going and how to get there, and what roles they saw for the HRA to play. Chair Maschka noted the need for how to provide gap financing, with the Sherman project as a prime ex- ample of that need. Chair Maschka opined that he saw this as an exciting time with the need to address the SE corridor housing and exploring funding opportu- nities. Whether the City Council decided it needed to establish an Economic De- velopment Authority (EDA) and whether or not that consisted of the HRA or the City Council, Chair Maschka asked that the HRA be told what to do and where to go, expressing the HRA's collective excitement and willingness to follow their lead. Discussion Specific to Southeast Roseville, Mayor Roe noted some ideas he and Coun- cilmember Laliberte had heard at the recent LMC community engagement focus. Mayor Roe advised that he'd already preliminarily reached out to the Mayor or Maplewood on how those efforts may proceed and advised that he would bring up those ideas at the City Council's retreat. Mayor Roe noted the need for the City Council to talk about the process, and make sure residents, landlords, neighbors,