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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 20 sixty-five and older and she is one of those people. She is aging in place. She stated her wife and her are in the late sixties and beginning to think about what is next but want to stay in Roseville whether it be maintaining the house she and her wife are in or moving to a condo or apartment. A lot of their aging neighbors want to stay in Roseville as well and that means there needs to be housing options for the older citizens of the community. It has already been said that twenty-three percent of the population is sixty-five and older which is one in four and a signifi- cant aging population and we need to prepare our community for that. We need to have affordable housing across the range and that includes this project. This is an ideal project that CommonBond has brought to us. This is a major opportunity and the City's chance to do the right thing because no one like CommonBond is going to approach the City again and the City needs affordable housing. Corn- monBond has an excellent track record and the City needs to accept the invitation. She is acutely aware of how jarring this rezoning is going to be for the immediate neighbors because her City, Roseville, rezoned single family residential property adjoining her home to build a three-story condominium building. She knows what it is like and she still thinks this is the right project for the community as a whole. She strongly encouraged that CommonBond and the City Staff thought- fully pursue mitigations. It appears that the discussion is going on. She stated parking and tree preservation should be looked at because it is very important, screening and landscaping with special attention to conifers to that screen if pos- sible. Lighting is very important, especially if there is going to be parking next to these residences. Ms. Mindy Greiling,2495 Marion Street Ms. Greiling spoke at the Planning Commission meeting. She stated she has been coming to Council meetings for decades and the first time she testified at this body was for the League of Women Voters for Villa Park Condo's on County Road B. The League was in partnership and testifying with Roseville Lutheran Church. She stated she is still for affordable housing and is the Co-Chair of the League of Women Voters Housing Study. She did not think Villa Park was con- troversial anymore. People were much more concerned about that and that was not affordable housing, it was market rate and built as being affordable but not terribly affordable compared to the type of projects CommonBond does. She stated neighbors always oppose it and the Council back then had courage, she thanked all of the Councilmember tonight who the same courage to make Rose- ville better. Mr. David Kacmarynski, 225 So. Owasso Mr. Kacmarynski is opposed to the project. The one concern he has is there are areas in Roseville that are stated for high density property and he wondered why those areas would not be looked at. As far as the density, he thought the amount of traffic that will be reintroduced into South Owasso Boulevard is going to be drastic. When he moved in, Owasso Hills was not built at the time but once it was built the traffic count went up quite a bit. He stated there was a lot of speed-