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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,February 9,2015 Page 9 ing B, he would be more comfortable. Mayor Roe noted that, if the developer could find a way to fund such a proposal and still meet the 50% threshold with mixing units, it sounded like the issue would be more problematic architecturally in designing the square footage of the individual units. Mr. Sherman concurred with Mayor Roe's statement regarding design work, and expressed appreciation for this dialogue tonight to respect neighborhood concerns and develop a project that was workable for the City and developer. Mr. Sherman noted that, if the City Council's consensus was to move the project forward, his team would take a look at requested design and funding changes. However, if the project was not supported by the City Council consensus as proposed with at- tempted revisions as discussed tonight, Mr. Sherman George advised that they would need to return to their lenders to determine their continued interest in fi- nancing the project. Mr. Sherman advised that lenders and the Metropolitan Council supported workforce housing in Roseville, clean-up of contaminated soils and waters with stormwater improvements, and making urban improvements. Mr. Sherman noted three areas needing to be addressed, including the City's deci- sion on extending Twin Lakes Parkway as a separate consideration; the amount of affordable housing units they would support in one building; and whether they supported gap funding participation from public funds to make the project viable. Mr. Sherman again expressed his willingness to work with lenders to further re- fine finances by changing the percentage of affordable units and mixing them be- tween the two proposed buildings if the City Council supported the project in general. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Sherman confirmed that the requested TIF was what was only generated on this site, and not from any other properties within the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area. Councilmember Willmus reviewed his tally on requested City financial assis- tance, including up to $3.5 million in TIF, $300,000 from the HRA, and credits for sewer access and water access connections (SAC and WAC). Councilmember Willmus stated that he, along with his colleagues, still was concerned about those amounts. While having supported use of TIF for residential projects having broad community support in the past, Councilmember Willmus questioned if he could do so since,based on public sentiment to-date on the project as it now stands, this development project had yet to obtain that public support. If required to make a decision tonight on whether or not to support the level of assistance being re- quested, Councilmember Willmus stated that his answer would be no. Councilmember McGehee echoed the comments of Councilmember Willmus, and questioned if workforce housing was reduced from 50% to 20% and spread be- tween the two proposed buildings, whether or not some of the secured funding would be lost.