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34 Environmental Specialist Ryan Johnson updated the Commission on sustainability. <br />35 <br />36 Chair Ficek asked for more information on the 132/Lexington project. <br />37 <br />38 Mr. Freihammer reviewed the project with the Commission. <br />39 <br />40 Chair Ficek asked what the reluctance was of the businesses when asked for their <br />41 comments. <br />42 <br />43 Mr. Johnson explained the biggest thing the City ran into was the businesses were <br />44 mainly tenants. Staff was going door to door and the businesses that were leasing <br />45 space had some interest and would try to work with the property owner. There was <br />46 interest at the local level but the business could not make the improvements or did <br />47 not want to make the improvements because the tenant would not see the actual <br />48 benefit in the end. He indicated Roseville has a lot of those types of buildings where <br />49 the businesses are leasing. <br />50 <br />51 Member Joyce asked if there is a building code on the wind source and is it <br />52 residentially feasible to do that. <br />53 <br />54 Mr. Johnson explained what they would be signing up for wind source is to buy <br />55 into a wind farm that the utility company built. A resident could buy a certain <br />56 number of blocks that would reduce the energy use from the fossil fuel side. <br />57 <br />58 Member Joyce indicated he has seen some turbines in St. Paul and wondered if <br />59 Roseville has any restrictions on them. <br />60 <br />61 Mr. Johnson thought the City did have some building codes that would make <br />62 putting up the turbines a little more difficult. He indicated staff made the whole <br />63 solar permitting side as easily as they could through SolaSmart but he did not know <br />64 if the City has ever been approached for actually doing any kind of windmill on any <br />65 of the properties in the City. <br />66 <br />67 Member Misra wondered if there was any way to leverage the success on those <br />68 businesses to draw more people in and use those businesses as examples. <br />69 <br />70 Mr. Johnson explained staff will be getting the final numbers in from Xcel and will <br />71 report back to staff about the audit results. Once staff gets that information then it <br />72 will be promoted to all the businesses. <br />73 <br />74 Member Hodder thought the City newspaper, the City news, there is a business <br />75 section in there that might be a good place to highlight those successes as well. He <br />76 thought that was a good source of information City wide. <br />77 <br />78 Member Hodder asked how the solar gardens were working and if it was similar to <br />79 wind source that is done. <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />