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172 is a competitive market and the City is competing with its neighbors. These are 173 businesses that other communities want as well for their redevelopment sites so the 174 City has to incentivize these companies with TIF or helping to clean up the site so 175 then to also put additional requirements for sustainability on top of that and unless 176 the City is willing to pay for those, is very hard to sell to those businesses because 177 those businesses will go somewhere else. Until it is looked at making these 178 requirements at a regional or statewide level it is really hard to stick to it because 179 developers will be lost to other cities. 180 181 Member Misra stated she was not suggesting that there is not competition or there 182 is not protocol the City follows but she thought to the extent that this Commission 183 meets and people attend the meetings and make public comments and the 184 Commission tries to be responsive to that, she thought to say it is only when the 185 City Council proposes a policy and passes it means that everything else the 186 Commission is doing around this table isn't significant. She would like to know 187 when staff is taking on a project that staff is cross referencing it to the other things 188 that have been talked about and that there could be a systematic way of doing that 189 so that the City knows it is looking at issues like habitat or a preference for a green 190 community in various ways because the City is competing and there are certainly 191 plots of Roseville that have been difficult to develop but on the other hand she 192 would just as easily argue that Roseville is a very choice community with an 193 incredibly wonderful location and a lot of great resources and people are interested 194 in moving to the City so to that extent she thought it was important that the 195 Commissio adheres to the values talked about at the table whether or not the City 196 Council kes it all into policy at a certain level, whether it is an ordinance or a 197 code, there has been a lot of discu around things that the Commission talks 198 about that coul e ref renced. 199 200 C air Ci acek agree t at the communication goes two ways. 201 202 7. Sustainable RosevillXthe 203 Environmental Specian introduced Philipp Muessig, GreenStep Cities 204 Program CoordinatorPollution Control Agency and Sean Gosiewski, 205 Exec ' Director of Alliance for Sustainability who made a presentation to the 206 Commi regarding Roseville's current sustainability efforts, and what could be 207 done by th the future. 208 209 Chair Cihacek a ed what the Commission's priorities were in the Comprehensive 210 Plan. 211 212 Mr. Johnson indicated he could not remember what the Commission's strategic 213 visioning was for the Comprehensive Plan. 214 215 Mr. Gosiewski reviewed the vision of the Commission. 216 Page 5 of 7