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1 Proposal Summary 2 In cooperation with Calvary Baptist Church, Centennial United Methodist Church, Church of Corpus 3 Christi, Grace Church of Roseville, New Life Presbyterian Church, Roseville Area High School, 4 Roseville Covenant Church, St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, and St. Rose of Lima, the Minnesota 5 State Fair (MSF) seeks a five-year renewal of its Interim Use (IU) approval of nine park-and-ride 6 facilities for the 12-day Minnesota State Fair. The locations and bus circulation patterns for these 7 facilities are illustrated in the site/flow maps provided with this RCA as Attachment A. 8 Prior to the first IU approval in 2002, the MSF had operated park-and-ride facilities at certain sites in 9 Roseville for many years. In 2001, after receiving a few isolated complaints (mainly pertaining to one 10 site) the City determined that the park-and-ride facilities should be regulated as an interim use. The 11 subsequent approvals have been valid for 5-year periods, with a couple of intermediate approvals for 12 additional sites along the way. The most recent IU approval expired at the end of September 2021. 13 Park-and-ride facilities are operated by MSF in other locations in Roseville, in addition to the nine sites 14 identified in this request but, because those other locations are at places like shopping centers—where 15 park-and-ride lots are permitted uses—they donot require any special approvals. All nine of the park- 16 and-ride facilities subject to the current request are on church or school properties that are zoned 17 Institutional (INST) District. Permanent park-and-ride lots are allowed as conditional uses in the INST 18 District, but since MSF only operates its facilities during the 12 days of the annual state fair, they are 19 temporary in nature, and the IU process is the appropriate tool for regulating them. 20 Evolution of the State Fair’s IU 21 Upon granting the initial IU approval in 2002, the City Council directed the Planning Division to review 22 each site throughout the 12-day fair and provide a report regarding the inspections and whether any 23 complaints were received. The report found all sites to be in compliance with the stated conditions of the 24 approval and the Planning Division only received calls regarding overflow parking and parking in front 25 of mail boxes. 26 City staff generally has no issues with the nine park-and-ride facilities throughout the city and annually 27 receives very few calls concerning their operation, but overflow parking on public streets has increased 28 with the popularity of the park-and-ride lots over time. While on-street parking is not inherently 29 problematic, the increasing overflow parking generates increasing calls and emails to City staff 30 regarding vehicles that have been parked partially blocking driveways and mail boxes, or pertaining to 31 occasional noise issues. In response to these concerns the Public Works Department has installed “no 32 parking” signs along certain sections of roadways and that has reduced the number of calls in those 33 areas. 34 Nevertheless, processing these calls, mobilizing staff to install signs, and having police patrol park-and- 35 ride areas is burdensome on the City’s limited resources. For this reason, new conditions were added to 36 the 2017 IU renewal requiring MSF to have memoranda of understanding (MOU) with the Public Works 37 and Police Departments such that MSF would make annual payments to these departments to pay for 38 posting and maintaining temporary “no parking” signs and to pay for off-duty police officers to patrol 39 the park-and-ride areas and enforce the parking prohibitions. These and several other conditions which 40 have been refined over the past 20 years are included as recommended conditions of approval at the end 41 of this RCA. 10d RCA.docx Page 2 of 6