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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 22, 2019 Page 4 agencies, as Mr. Trudgeon has commented, are a voluntary program. The Rice Creek Watershed District has some programs, but those programs are directed by their Board. What the Watershed's Board does not have, is a specific thing that the City feels would be good in the community and the Watershed Board is in no position to help the City negotiate that. In terms of flooding and stormwater, the City has issues in the community that may in fact be unique to the community and the City talks about the Green Steps Program and to really participate in that pro- gram that has a lot of things regarding noise and lighting and the environment and permeable pavements and the Complete Streets Program, etc. She thought the City should rescind the document it currently has, and should redirect the Public Works, Environment, and Transportation Commission (PWET) to come forward with an environmental assessment worksheet of some form that really spells out those things the community is looking for in a new development, whether it is tree perfection, which the City already has, but to spell it out in a total document about stormwater management, permeable surface, wetlands, and the kinds of buffers the City wants around wetlands. All of those types of things are important. Ms. McGehee stated the City should require the new development to be orienting buildings to take advantage of solar. She stated the City needs to look at their own parking areas to see how it can be turned into a permeable surface in terms of recharging the aquafer. She stated these are important things that can be thought about as a community, be included on a checklist, and not have it buried off in Community Development. She stated Community Development could provide a list to developers that shows that Roseville is interested, and the community sup- ports these kinds of things, and what the City is looking for. Mr. Sean Gosiewski Mr. Gosiewski stated he was with the Alliance for Sustainability and is one of the speakers for the PWET presentation. He agreed with Ms. McGehee that as the City is getting rid of the current ERW and delegating the PWET to work on up- dating some other similar document that could be for a specific development area but also could be citywide. He congratulated the Councilmembers on having a Comprehensive Plan that is affirming the State goal of reducing carbon by eighty percent. He stated the Alliance for Sustainability will be helping to create some multi-family teams to work on some of these issues. He stated the City is already a part of cities charging ahead and working on EV readiness with the City. He stated down the road some of the considerations could be in a worksheet, and it is really important to make sure that project proposers are talked to early on because the further down the road in working with the architect, the harder it is to change things. If it is really early on, the City could talk about issues of onsite storm- water capture, solar orientation and how it might tie into different bike and pedes- trian oriented pathways through the City. There are also issues of daylighting and many opportunities to implement daylighting. One of the resources that could re- ally be promoted is the free Xcel Energy Design Assistance Program where the company helps architects work on energy efficient designs for the buildings. He