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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 19, 2015 Page 25 sustainable. While recognizing that a lot of amenities had been recently added that people enjoy and encouraged people to locate in Roseville, Councilmember McGehee opined that without creating a huge tax burden, the City would not sup- port those amenities long-term, and further opined that more apartments wouldn't achieve that goal. Councilmember McGehee opined that the City had a lot of af- fordable housing now and she was not in that marlcet, but instead supported eco- nomic development to improve housing stock with Roseville 98% developeci and unable to malce any major shifts in existing housing stock. Councihnember Laliberte suggested moving off the focus of move up housing units and simply to list "economic" in the heading. However, Councilmember Laliberte questioned if by doing so it missed the commercial/industrial coinponent that needed to be factored in or if the economic development piece only applied in Twin Lakes and SE Roseville. Councilmember McGehee noted the need for living wage jobs in all areas. Mayor Roe questioned where other opportunities were in Roseville for commer- cial/industrial or corporate focus beyond Twin Lakes and SE Roseville unless soinething was already zoned accordingly. Councilmeinber Etten addressed discussions of the HRA over the last few months as part of their plan to refocus on economic development efforts, with the first step being to help existing businesses through development of a loan program to encourage their expansion or to iinprove their exterior fa�ade as an outcome or goal. Since soine of those HRA prograins are already in place or in the planning process, Councilmeinber Etten suggested that the City Council look at what had been produced and refine it as needed. While supporting a category for economic development, Councilmember Etten noted that soine of that work had already been put in place. Mayor Roe clarified with staff that rehabilitation of facilities was inchided under the HRA's business rehabilitation program. Under the 2416 timeline, with the City Council looking for a inore robust eco- nomic developinent program as their focus area, Mr. Bilotta noted that some of that would involve the HRA and what they had been doing, with the City Council in a position to keep or discard some of those efforts depending on which way they decided to move going forward, which should be decided by year-end 2015. Mr. Bilotta suggested talking through those existing programs during 2016 and then going into the 2017 budget cycle those ideas could be put in place, restruc- turing accomplished, and other goals that would involve considerable work. IDur- ing the interim, Mr. Bilotta noted that low hanging fruit would continue to be ad- dressed before then as a normal part of operations.