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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 13 ville, he was ashamed of that fact. He stated CommonBond is an excellent devel- oper, builder and operator of this type of housing. CommonBond is responsive, flexible and responsible and he would suggest that the City is never going to see a better developer come to the City with this type of housing. This is a good loca- tion and the traffic impacts are not significant, it is on the edge of a residential neighborhood, not in the middle of it. It is on Rice Street. He stated City staff has reviewed this proposal and has a set of multiple positive findings to support it. There is no reason that approving this proposal will open up any type of chain of events. This is a specific proposal from a specific developer at a specific location, no more, no less. This is the best proposal for this type of housing that Roseville may ever see. He would suggest that there is a rather fundamental question to consider which is if the City is not going to approve this proposal, what proposal will ever be approved. He urged the Council to support this proposal and the changes that are needed. Mr.James Bull, Mr. Bull stated he did not believe that this is the right location for this proposal. He thought that most people will agree that there is a need for affordable housing in Roseville and the quality of development that CommonBond will give, but this is not the right location when there are other properties that are already zoned or identified for high level density housing. He stated in the Planning Commission proposal that was brought together from staff and the Council received, he thought the Commission did a great job in identifying many goals and policies from the 2030 Comprehensive Plan that could be pertinent to this project. The key thing there is that the Planning Commission advised that these goals and poli- cies should be evaluate determine if the proposal is strong enough to justify the land use change and this is where he wanted to ask the Council to look at those goals, looks at those policies and make that determination. Certainly there are some goals that are benefited by this proposal such as the diversity of housing but to be brief he was going to give the Council some examples because he did not think those are all appropriate for this project and going to benefit where the City is trying to head with the 2030 Comp. Plan which has also been carried forward to 2040. For instance, the general land use goals, part of goal one is to promote sus- tainability of land use patterns and land use changes and new development that contribute to the preservation and enhancement of the community vitality and identity and this does not contribute to the vitality and identity of this neighbor- hood. The project is a spot zone change and is a terrible precedent. He would like the Council to image in a three-story building and parking lot going into the Council's backyards, up to the property line, and how would that change the use of their property. Buffer and screening were talked about and a fence is screen- ing. There is no buffer planned for this as it was looked at. Part of the policy for goal one, Policy 1.4 says to maintain orderly transitions between different land uses. Some people will say Roseville has other high density residential that abuts to low density but none of those have been built since 1980 so the policy and