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<br />is a competitive market and the City is competing with its neighbors. These are <br />businesses that other communities want as well for their redevelopment sites so the <br />City has to incentivize these companies with TIF or helping to clean up the site so <br />then to also put additional requirements for sustainability on top of that and unless <br />the City is willing to pay for those, is very hard to sell to those businesses because <br />those businesses will go somewhere else. Until it is looked at making these <br />requirements at a regional or statewide level it is really hard to stick to it because <br />developers will be lost to other cities. <br /> <br />Member Misra stated she was not suggesting that there is not competition or there <br />is not protocol the City follows but she thought to the extent that this Commission <br />meets and people attend the meetings and make public comments and the <br />Commission tries to be responsive to that, she thought to say it is only when the <br />City Council proposes a policy and passes it means that everything else the <br />Commission is doing around this table isn’t significant. She would like to know <br />when staff is taking on a project that staff is cross referencing it to the other things <br />that have been talked about and that there could be a systematic way of doing that <br />so that the City knows it is looking at issues like habitat or a preference for a green <br />community in various ways because the City is competing and there are certainly <br />plots of Roseville that have been difficult to develop but on the other hand she <br />would just as easily argue that Roseville is a very choice community with an <br />incredibly wonderful location and a lot of great resources and people are interested <br />in moving to the City so to that extent she thought it was important that the <br />Commission adheres to the values talked about at the table whether or not the City <br />Council makes it all into policy at a certain level, whether it is an ordinance or a <br />code, there has been a lot of discussion around things that the Commission talks <br />about that could be referenced. <br /> <br />Chair Cihacek agreed that the communication goes two ways. <br /> <br /> <br />7.Sustainable Roseville <br />Environmental Specialist Johnson introduced Philipp Muessig, GreenStep Cities <br />Program Coordinator of the MN Pollution Control Agency and Sean Gosiewski, <br />Executive Director of Alliance for Sustainability who made a presentation to the <br />Commission regarding Roseville’s current sustainability efforts, and what could be <br />done by the City in the future. <br /> <br />Chair Cihacek asked what the Commission’s priorities were in the Comprehensive <br />Plan. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson indicated he could not remember what the Commission’s strategic <br />visioning was for the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> <br />Mr. Gosiewski reviewed the vision of the Commission. <br /> <br />Page 5 of 7 <br /> <br />