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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3,2019 Page 25 ment, in the last twenty years, the GreenhouseVillage Co-op and both are next to single family homes and this Council,just four or five years ago in working with the School District, approved the Owasso School Site next to single family homes. This is certainly happening. Green House Village is another example, built int 2005 on Larpenteur right next to abutting single family homes. Councilmember Etten stated this is something that has happened frequently through the last twenty years in Roseville and he has not, as a Councilmember, heard in his six plus years from anybody living in those areas with concerns. He understood this is impactful for some people, but he also knew that long term it is something that people figure out is not as negative. One more thing on why it is not unique, if this were medium density, as some people have called for, the stat- ed height or maximum height in medium density is forty feet and the goal for that project, which cannot be guaranteed is thirty-eight feet. Even if it is a little higher it is not that far off from what medium density could be. If looking at building size and things like that a medium density property could be just as big or bigger as far as height. The final thing for him and most importantly is the people who would move in are people and may live in Roseville right now or not but those people are coming and want to be a part of a community also and he hoped that people would be open to that as a positive for their community in the future. Councilmember Willmus stated he will not be supporting the motion for several reasons. Roseville has, over the years, spent considerable time looking at this question of multi-family housing, looking to Districts where the Council wants to see multi-family housing, looking to Districts where the Council wants to protect existing housing stock. District 5 in the 2030 plan and again in the 2040 plan has been one of those areas where the City has looked to preserve what is in place. The Council has spent great time and effort to look to various corridors, for ex- ample County Road C and looked to redevelopment efforts there and to accom- modate multi-family housing there. He stated the Council has looked to Twin Lakes to accommodate multi-family housing there. When you speak to availabil- ity of properties that are zoned HDR, you are correct but throughout the City's Zoning Code there are accommodations for multi-family within a broad scope of different districts. All of the community mixed use districts, for example, ac- commodate multi-family housing. In fact, many of the proposals that came for- ward on May 13th were in those very districts. Several hundred of units being proposed. This is an all or nothing here with CommonBond and he thought that was a misnomer and he thought it is misleading to the broader public. When the City drafts it Comprehensive Plan and identify a specific region and say the City is going to work with the neighbors and are going to plan these areas, that is something that the City needs to hold to and that the City needs to do. He stated the Council is stepping away from that. He did not think, given what we have, on the table before us, coming to us in the future, necessitates that significant step at this point.