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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 4, 2015 Page 33 Councilmember Willmus reiterated that currently, multi-family use is moving from a P use to P with CU, a significant step in allowing the City Council review of individual applications versus a developer simply pulling a permit to build a building. Councilmember Willmus expressed his personal disappointment that the neighborhood had not acknowledged that significant step moving forward. Councilmember Willmus further clarified that the City Council was not prohibit- ing MDR and that it would be continued as a P use, indicating that the City Coun- cil may need to do a better job of articulating the steps being taken; opining that in many areas the City Council and neighborhood were on the same page. Councilmember McGehee echoed the comments of both Councilmembers Laliberte and Willmus. To the extent that she was not a supporter of CU, Coun- cilmember McGehee opined that it provided the City Council with a chance to look at things. Regardless of the outcome of the future height discussion, and in light of this being a first touch in addressing the use table, Councilmember McGehee stated her willingness to favor MDR as a permitted use throughout Subarea A given the new line drawn on the displayed map; and expressed her willingness to have multi-family as a NP use in that area. However, Coun- cilmember McGehee noted that while the CU provided that additional scrutiny, it left the door open for future Council's to allow proposals that would run with the land under that CU. Having gone through tonight's process, Councilmember McGehee asked that staff be directed to post the results of the discussion on the City's website that allowed for questions from residents on what future development may look like and pro- vide their responses before decisions are made. Councilmember McGehee shared the sentiments about the process and inviting participation by residents; however, she also noted the challenge in accomplishing everything the way everyone want- ed. At the end of the process however, Councilmember McGehee expressed the goal to have people feel they'd been heard, with the difference being in hearing and doing what they heard, suggesting there was plenty of room for compromise from the original scenario. Councilmember Etten concurred with some of the comments of Councilmembers Willmus and Laliberte, stating the City Council's intent to respond to the desires of the broader community. Councilmember Etten noted future discussions re- garding height to protect adjacent single-family homes; but expressed concern in eliminating multi-family from Subarea A entirely, since there were a number of positive uses for it in areas. Councilmember Etten reiterated his intent to address zones that would protect not only Langton Lake but single-family homes to make sure the neighbors, lake and environment were respected. However, Coun- cilmember Etten noted that a lot of Roseville residents currently lived with single- family and multi-family housing abutting each other and typically a setback was in place to address that co-mingling of housing types, and this type of develop- ment would not be the first time it happened in Roseville.