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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 25, 2019 Page 16 Councilmember Laliberte agreed and noted the Council did ask the Parks Com- mission to talk to the Finance Commission about this topic and it has been looked at already with those two Commissions. Councilmember Willmus explained with respect to tree preservation, he thought there is certainly a role there for the Public Works, Environment, and Transporta- tion Commission to look at some of those things but also something where he did not want to the city go so far that it is beyond where their neighbors are with re- spect to tree preservation and things like that as it becomes a deterrent to potential redevelopment in Roseville. He thought that was an area where the city needed to take a second look and retune it a little bit. Councilmember Etten indicated he did not want to debate that right now but thought it would be something the Council would want to look at versus having the Planning Commission interpret what is going on. He thought the purpose was to leave as many mature trees as possible and if not, then to fill up the neighbor- ing areas as much as possible. Councilmember Groff agreed those items should not be discussed by the Planning Commission. He thought it would be more appropriate to bring to the Parks and Finance Commissions for discussion. Mayor Roe stated the Planning Commission is mainly here for interpreting how or whether developments meet the city's Code requirements and making recommen- dations to the Council on that basis. He thought in the future, there could be some type of collaboration between the Planning and Parks Commissions when the time comes to reevaluate the cost structure. Chair Gitzen thought another item the Planning Commission was looking for guidance on would be amusement businesses, should it be a Conditional Use or a Business License, and what Zoning Districts should be looked at where it would fit in. Mayor Roe thought Council's perspective was that the city Code has some ways it could improve in that regard so other business licenses or other parts of the Code outside of the Zoning Code should be looked at. He noted staff had some really good direction, but he thought there was a role for the Planning Commission to look at that in conjunction with staff. Commissioner Sparby noted another amusement business will be coming before the Commission in the near future and the Commission thought the Amusement definition could probably apply to a lot of other businesses in the community.