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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 18, 2019 Page 3 Councilmember Laliberte thought the County was a really big piece of this as it includes a lot of the improvements such as green spaces, changes in turn lanes, etc., and since nothing happens without the County being on board. She noted the County's Public Works Department might have other intentions to move more traffic through there and the County's priorities might not be what the Alliance has set out as priorities in this plan. She thought the County is really important as well as the landowners. She thought this was a very nice package and the packag- ing, planning, communicating, and engagement is excellent but without those pieces, implementation doesn't happen. Then it is only a great vision for it. She appreciated the smaller quick projects suggested in Phase One and Two and that it will be interesting to learn more about what those are, where are those projects going to happen, and who needs to be a part of making those projects happen so the projects come to fruition. Councilmember Laliberte stated Ms. O'Brien mentioned in her presentation about the Alliance developing design guidelines and that is really interesting to her as well because then each of the cities need to adopt design guidelines for the corri- dor that match the design guidelines on the other corner. She thought the Alliance needed to think about how that works too because the building and design guide- lines really need to be set. Ms. O'Brien stated her limited knowledge on design guidelines, based on other projects she has worked with, is there are multiple ways to institute them. The design guidelines can be adopted into Code, but the guidelines don't necessarily need to be adopted either. The guidelines can be offered to the development part- ners as a guidance and are often effective as well. Councilmember Groff stated he has been interested in that corner of Roseville for quite some time, especially working on the transportation issue there. He wanted to stress the need for housing for a range of people because the City has had situa- tions where people have not been able to get to their jobs from that corner of Ro- seville and if working a minimum wage job, the resident cannot get from that area to where the jobs are in Roseville. He stated if there is anything that can happen with that in the Chamber's work, he would appreciate it. Mayor Roe stated in terms of the County, both Mr. Trudgeon and he have been lobbying either the elected or appointed officials at the County. The Chamber has been party to some of that as well. He thought the Alliance had gotten a com- mitment from the three County Commissioners to band together. He also thought the designated staff person is the new Economic Development or Community De- velopment type person who will be participating. He noted there has definitely been County participation through the process of getting to this point. He noted in regard to the property owners, there have been inquiries and some of the pro- cesses are underway and that reassures him that this will work.