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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 10 depth study of affordable housing in the five cities in the League, Roseville being one of them. The League looked at the availability of units and based on the de- mographics of Roseville, presented recommendations on affordable housing needs to the City during the period when it was gathering community input for the soon to be updated Comprehensive Plan. She said the League is very pleased that many of their recommendations are now a part of that adopted plan. It is clear that CommonBond's request for land use changes fit within the adopted Rose- ville's Comprehensive Plan and meet the needs of the senior segment of Roseville residents who need housing at an affordable level. It is clear also, that Common- Bond, is recognized and well respected as an affordable housing developer, is working to address nearby neighbors' concerns as evidenced by meeting with common property owners to look for acceptable buffer offers and is also worth emphasizing that the City Planners pointed out that other concerns will be ad- dressed as the development works its way through the City's building process. With those considerations, the League of Women Voters of Roseville Area en- courages the City Council to support CommonBond's request. Ms.Julie Christiansen,2951 Galtier Street Ms. Christiansen attended and spoke at the Planning Commission meeting. She wanted to point out a couple of things. CommonBond brought up busing and the bus stop on Owasso and Rice Street does not run full bus schedules. That should be taken into consideration. Another thing that she would consider as well is there are not any sidewalks there. She has gone to Ramsey County to request sidewalks because her children, at the time, were going to middle school and if her children were to walk there was no sidewalks on either side of Rice Street in that area. As far as people who are living in that facility, there is not a safe way to walk to the Metro Station in Little Canada. She was for affordable housing but felt like this plot of land in a residential neighborhood is not appropriate and the City should revisit doing a medium density project there instead of a high-density project. Ms. Barbara Svedkamp,2880 Market Drive, Little Canada Ms. Svedkamp stated she lives in a CommonBond facility in Little Canada right now. She noted she has been at the facility for seven years. She stated this was the best thing she has done for herself. She moved from Roseville to Little Cana- da. CommonBond is so good at taking care of the residents and the apartments and the building and grounds. She said it is fantastic. There are activities that everyone can participate in and in the process of forming a resident Council to have potlucks and things like that. She really thinks Roseville needs this because the residents are not getting any younger. She came from the era where she worked for minimum wage her whole life, supported three children on minimum wage and her kids are all successful, happy adults with children of their own. She thought it would behoove Roseville to accept CommonBond and the people that would live there. She indicated she did not know too many retired people that can afford market rate rent. If it were not for CommonBond she would be in a nurs-