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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 15, 2018 Page 16 neighborhoods in the City and that is where there is difficulty when someone sells and comes in and divides something up. She stated the City also has storm water issues in parts of the City and subdivisions can make the problem worse. Councilmember McGehee said that other cities take the average of the lot size within five hundred feet of touching the lot. She thought that would go a long way to protecting the integrity and style of their neighborhood. She stated she has not heard anyone in the City rejoicing over pressure for the City to infill, pressure for the City to be tighter and more compact. She thought the City got that pres- sure from Minneapolis and St. Paul and the Met Council, but the bottom line is Roseville is a community and most of the residents want to be a suburb. She thought in the interest of neighborhood integrity, lot sizes are important. She would like to see the Council discuss putting that in the City Code. Councilmember Laliberte agreed the City does talk about the character of the neighborhood but how is it defined without having something specifically there. She noted Councilmember McGehee might define it differently than she would and felt that was the challenge with this. She thought even if something was put down on paper, each individual would define it differently. At the time the Coun- cil talked about this item, she did not have the background which was helpful to her. She did not want to recreate this but would be interested in finding out what could be different. She would also be interested to have full Council discussion seeing that one Councilmember was absent. Councilmember Willmus stated the side of this that makes sense for him to look at would be evaluating the City's existing minimum lot size standards given what the City has had since those standards came forward in terms of water infiltration and mitigation. This is something he would like to look at a little more. Mayor Roe asked if Councilmember Willmus was talking about a larger mini- mum standard for all new lots in the City or was he talking about contextual to certain areas. Councilmember Willmus thought he would look at that City wide and not neces- sarily as a large lot district. He thought the Council should look at this as stand- ard City wide. Mr. Trudgeon stated if there is a desire to look at this City wide in regard to lot size, then he thought a good nexus was to look at the lot coverage standards be- cause that is something staff does as a part of normal review of the Zoning and Subdivision code. He wondered how urgent the Council felt this item was. He noted as a part of the Comprehensive Plan update, staff will be doing some Zon- ing Code rewrite.