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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 24 erate all of the things said and he understood both sides of it and thanked the speakers for their comments. He stated it is very heartfelt and a very difficult thing but working in housing for forty-one years in the Metropolitan area he knows there is a great need for housing of this sort. When he was door knocking last year he came across a woman who was living in her house still and had been a resident all her life, she and her husband built their house in Roseville in 1961 and have lived in Roseville since then and now she is living there alone and trying to stay there on her social security check and she cannot do that anymore but real- ly wants to stay in Roseville. This is a prime example of why Roseville needs this type of housing and that is why he is making this motion. Councilmember Etten stated he appreciated everyone coming out and he under- stood there is a lot of impact for a lot of people, remembering the impact is most acute for those living close to the proposed development. He has five categories, the first is around community need. There is a zero percent vacancy in affordable senior housing which speaks to what Member Groff has brought up. People liv- ing in single family homes across this City will need housing in this category, some of the housing near City Hall is three to four thousand dollars a month with- out any support of care and is certainly not affordable versus the seven thousand of this proposed development. Councilmember Willmus brings up potential other units and we know on the Council that units cannot be counted on until being built. It shifts and the needs change. An example is the proposal at the corner of Dale and County Road C, it was going to be one thing and then a developer pulled out and it shifted what it was. Even when being built, sometimes it changes. Some special considerations people asked about, aren't there enough HDR (High Density Resolution) zoned lots. There are certainly some of those lots but many of them are small and are not big enough to host an HDR building. There are also sites that are mixed use with business and housing and most of those will require redevelopment and have additional costs, making them harder to make affordable. Councilmember Etten stated one of the unique positives is it is on a major road and the cross street is a collector street and is made to take extra traffic and has a stop light. This is actually fairly unique in the City and is not a thing that the City has a lot of, even on Rice Street. The other corners are commercial there and could actually drive more traffic then this kind of development, based on the traf- fic study. For him, why this is not unique is it is single family next to high densi- ty. He lives about a block from the Villa Park Condo's and have talked to some neighbors living there and one neighbor who was even buying a house as the pro- ject was being built and talked about some of the concerns at the time and there are no concerns now from that neighbor. He stated that is something a block from his house. He lives in the SE corner of Roseville and is the only census tract that is identified as have a high-low income population and tons of apartment build- ings and he has chosen to live there; he grew up there and moved back there with his family to raise his children. He sees that all over the place. Some more mod- ern pieces, one was mentioned on Fulham Street, The Midland Hills Develop-