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Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, September 2, 2015 Page 25 of those discussions, Chair Boguszewski suggested either reviewing a portion tonight, or 1224 given the lateness of the hour, to continue it to a future meeting. 1225 Member Murphy concurred, but suggested hearing from those members of the public in 1226 attendance tonight and asked staff if there was any negative impacts if the Commission 1227 didn’t finalize their discussion and action tonight. 1228 Chair Boguszewski duly noted his intent to hear public comment from those in 1229 attendance tonight. 1230 Mr. Lloyd advised that from a staff perspective there was no formal 60-day rule to comply 1231 with as this was an internal application, and only impacted developers tracking its 1232 progress who may be anticipating its completion in September, his only concern. 1233 At the request of Member Cunningham, Chair Boguszewski advised that public comment 1234 would be heard on any portion of this requested action, but asking speakers to clearly 1235 identify which requested action they were specifically addressing to avoid confusion. 1236 Public Comment 1237 Lisa McCormick, 2950 Wheeler Street 1238 Ms. McCormick advised that she would be addressing both issues, expressing concern 1239 with the limited time of 5 minutes per speaker. 1240 Ms. McCormick spoke to the long process of over a year for this item to come forward; 1241 and referenced materials she had brought to the City Council in June and 1242 Councilmember Laliberte’s request at that time that those materials also be forwarded to 1243 the Planning Commission for incorporation, noting that she would be further referencing 1244 some of those exhibits in her comments tonight. 1245 Ms. McCormick specifically addressed some of the neighborhood concerns in this area 1246 serving as a gateway to 700 Roseville homes focused around the intersection of Fairview 1247 Avenue and Terrace Drive; and that neighborhood’s submittal of 3 petitions to-date to the 1248 Planning Commission and/or City Council, 1 specifically related to conditions for Interim 1249 Use (IU) approval for Vogel Sheetmetal, and 1 specifically addressing resident concerns 1250 in the currently zoned HRD area, seeking rezoning to Medium Density Residential 1251 (MDR), but now proposed by the City Council directing staff toward CMU-1, which 1252 ultimately was more amenable to residents of adjacent properties and for the parks, 1253 rd which was their initial intention. Ms. McCormick stated that the 3 petition was put 1254 forward featuring specifics the neighbors felt would be more favorable in the Twin Lakes 1255 Redevelopment Area, including speaking to height, big box retail uses; with the City 1256 Council instituting a planning process in January of 2015. Ms. McCormick stated that at 1257 that time, residents were told that the process would be multi-step, including a 1258 neighborhood survey, a review of visual preferences related to height issues, and then 1259 resulting in a more fine-tuned product. However, Ms. McCormick opined that the process 1260 was later halted with only one step – the neighborhood survey – having been 1261 accomplished. Ms. McCormick noted that it was interesting to her to note that the 1262 petitions contained signatures of approximately 80 neighbors, while approximately 66 1263 surveys were received. 1264 When this was last discussed by the City Council in June of 2015, Ms. McCormick 1265 advised that she had asked the Mayor if they were disregarding the petitions and instead 1266 leaning toward rezoning to CMU, and was told that appeared to be the mood of the City 1267 Council at that time and after having talked to other residents. 1268 Ms. McCormick clarified that she was speaking on her own behalf tonight as a resident. 1269 Ms. McCormick stated that the neighbors were willing to be reasonable with a lighter 1270 intensity CMU which seemed to make sense, but the inclusion of a significant number of 1271 P uses remained an issue for them as they had advised the City Council, and asked that 1272 the Commission scale those uses back further or signify them as CU as a way to further 1273 define them. 1274