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217 Chair Cihacek stated the Commission's priorities seem to be what Mr. Gosiewski <br />218 has listed, it hits those targets within the timeline provided which are ambitious <br />219 targets and he thought the City was starting to make progress towards those targets <br />220 with the current policy structure. The trick for them is to figure out the next steps. <br />221 <br />222 Chair Cihacek thought a question that needed to be answered was how the City will <br />223 move forward on greenhouse gas emissions, Citywide electricity, onsite <br />224 renewables, City operations with renewable energy and reducing climate related <br />225 risks. One thing he thought the Commission discussed before was to get a handle <br />226 on urban forestry and that the forest program does not live within Public Works or <br />227 the Environment Commission, it lives in the Parks and Recreation Commission and <br />228 so there is a good opportunity to create a synergy, policy, action and movement to <br />229 develop urban forestry programs but it is particularl important given the City's <br />230 loss of forest resources due to both nat ral disasters s orms but also disease. He <br />231 stated the vast majority of Roseville e coverage was composed of one or two <br />232 species and not significant diversity which give the City a non -resilient forest <br />233 canopy which in turn creates problems for greenhouse gas and other sorts of <br />234 elements. He stated he would like to really get a better sense o forestry and <br />235 management given the C*6m <br />urrent sta and concerns. <br />236 <br />237 Mr. Muessig thought theission's action s ep strategies around urban forestry <br />238 was quite detailed in Chapter nine. <br />239 <br />240 Chair Cihacek thought chloride as a significant concern for all communities and <br />241 he thought Roseville had signific t problems with chlorine in water and resources <br />242 so to find a solution to r ce that i ort term and to treat it in a long term would <br />243 be a good one <br />244 <br />245<certain <br />siewski state one other area that is really exciting is with Roseville having <br />246 stores shutting down and redevelopment going on there or redevelopment <br />247 t HarMar so having higher density redevelopment has gigantic carbon <br />248s and looking at how to do all of the different pedestrian and bike <br />249 tions. There is a lot of interesting ways to trying to figure out how to get <br />250 around th City. <br />251 MN <br />252 Member J stated the City has great north/south transit, but east/west transit is <br />253 very difficult to do. He wondered how the City can have a bi-directional transit <br />254 system to get everyone where they want to go in the City. <br />255 <br />256 Chair Cihacek stated there are many large corporations in the City of Roseville <br />257 without easy access to get to them via transit. He thought transit was a concern for <br />258 the Commission and has been a concern for some time, particularly east/west <br />259 movement. <br />260 <br />261 Mr. Gosiewski stated with the Met Council having a new council and Metro Transit <br />262 trying to get over the bad publicity of having unshoveled bus stops and all of that <br />Page 6 of 7 <br />