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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 19, 2015 Page 28 Mayor Roe noted the public hearing, as noticed to the public, would still be held next week to receive public input; but it appeared dissolution of the HRA would not proceed based on this new information from staff's due diligence to-date. City Manager Tnidgeon clarified the target would remain as "20 increase units $350K housing" would remain and not be revised to "improve housing diversity;" and that a fifth category would be added under "strategic initiatives" to focus on "economic development" under the revised strategic priority entitled "housing and economic redevelopment." Mr. Trudgeon further noted the direction to staff to re-title "strategic initiatives" and add a cohimn to determine who's responsible for what as well as attempting a preliminary timeline. Mr. Trudgeon advised that he and staff would work on a first draft of a refonnatted and reorganized docu- ment to bring back to the City Council. Discussion ensued regarding additional guidance to staff related to KOI's and whether or not SE Roseville was appropriate or needed relocated to another cate- gory; the 2016 work plan that may become larger than the worlc plan in place, and inchiding preliininary steps toward that overall plan; potential addition of cohunns with a timeline, who should be plugged in, and tools to measure progress which may serve to cull out the "target" coluinn for what is or is not achievable; and the need to initially provide a starting point to move toward further refinement. For the benefit of Councilmeinber McGehee and her concerns about those exist- ing strategic initiatives that may no longer be relevant as part of HRA programs, Councilmember Etten clarified that the HRA held its own strategic planning pro- cess and the results of that exercise existed as a completely and distinct doclunent froin that of the City Council and his suggestion was that those goals be taken into consideration as part of the City Council's overarching strategic plan as they spe- cifically related to economic and redevelopment efforts. Specific to the SE Roseville KOI, Councilmeinber Wilhnus questioned what that actually looked lilce; and suggested including input from other municipalities and the community as initially identified in recent meetings sponsored by the Cham- ber of Commerce and Smart Growth America, as well as Ramsey County to loolc at the larger corridor of Rice Street and Larpenteur Avenue. Councilmember Willmus noted the City Council's involvement related to zoning and other steps to malce redevelopment and/or economic development happen. Ms. Kelsey clarified that there was no timeframe yet and follow-up continued with all communities (Maplewood, St. Paul and Roseville) continuing to meet and move forward with a variety of steps, even though it reinained in its initial stages. As part of those efforts for SE Roseville, Mayor Roe reported on his ineetings with St. Paul Councilmember Ainy Brendmoen representing that area and her staff, as well as with the Mayor of Maplewood, opining that it was a very produc- tive meeting. As part of that meeting, Mayor Roe reported that they compared