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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 26,2019 Page 15 Councilmember Etten assumed the Roseville Visitor Association has been part of this process and is quite supportive overall. Mr. Trudgeon explained he spoke to Julie Wearn last week on this item and she is familiar with it. He believed there is a RVA Board meeting in September and he will go through this and will review this topic with Board. He noted that the Board has some representation from the hotels and staff has been very forthright in discussion. He thought everyone understood the challenge it is and the city does not want to be overly restrictive on hotels that are doing well and working with the city. But, at the same time, the city needs to have some measures that can be taken. Councilmember Groff asked what the thinking was between the 730 days for the residential rather than the previous 365. Mr. Trudgeon thought this had more to do with code enforcement issues and was not really police related. The city wants to have the ability to better regulate that. Councilmember Etten asked if the Council wanted to talk about other property types while the Chief is present. He noted when it talks about commercial proper- ties and high-density housing, one of the things that needs to be figured out is where the number falls. Obviously, not all apartment buildings are built the same and so there cannot be the same regulations for an apartment building of four and an apartment building of forty units. He thought some sort of ratio should be made around that. Maybe for commercial, the Council should also think about a ratio of square feet or something like that. He did not know how to come to a fair way for that but thought it would be interesting to look at a series of Roseville's commercial properties and how that ratio breaks down with calls. He would be interested in those results. Mayor Roe thought the memorandum of understanding was the key piece. The fee only applies if the property owner is not willing to cooperate with the city and figure out ways to solve the issue. One thing he was going to suggest related to the calls for service, is to work with Ramsey County and count the health com- plaints towards this. He was not sure if that can be done legally but it would seem to him that the county would appreciate help in that regard. Mayor Roe indicated the city does want to reach out to the Radisson with looking at the numbers, as that business is approaching the threshold and Radisson may want to do some things on their own. He did understand the Radisson is going through a rebranding which might help as well.