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RCA Attachment D Regular City Council Meeting Monday, July 25, 2022 Page 4 133 This is a departure from where the City has been and is a pretty significant departure 134 that occurred over a couple year period when, in the midst of a pandemic, the CityÓs 135 outreach on the last Comp. Plan Amendments and updates was not what it should 136 have been. Most property owners in Roseville do not have any clue that next to 137 their single-family home, townhomes could be developed and he thought that was 138 a mistake on the CityÓs part. 139 140 Councilmember Strahan wondered if the City Council were to not follow current 141 zoning on this area, what would the City need to do. She understood the Council 142 would need to review the Comp. Plan and probably amend it again. 143 144 Mr. Gaughan indicated the City could put a moratorium on such housing projects 145 but there is a process that needs to be followed which would include a public hear- 146 ing and noticing of the public hearing which would provide a one year stop to these 147 type of projects throughout the City. Even if there were a suitable project that 148 would fit in a particular place in the City, it would not be able to move forward 149 during the moratorium and the Council would have to order study and research to 150 be done during the moratorium to come up with options that would come back for 151 another public hearing for the Council to consider what changes it wants to make. 152 Option two would be to simply rezone as it deems appropriate. Those are really 153 the only two options other than denying the application. 154 155 Mayor Roe noted the Comprehensive Plan that was done a couple of years ago, 156 before the zoning update was done, did not really change what LDR is. It was the 157 zoning change, the lot size, etc. that was a part of the zoning code update and the 158 Council did approve the zoning change at that time and even though there was dis- 159 cussion regarding some issues it was ultimately approved. The Council does have 160 the right to change its mind and it is entirely up to the Council to decide that. He 161 noted that in terms of rezoning, he was not sure the City would have anywhere else 162 to go because it is LDR and there is no other less intense zoning then that. So, there 163 would not be an option to rezone at this time unless the City up zoned it, which he 164 did not know that as the intent of the Council. 165 166 Councilmember Willmus thought the Mayor was correct and if the Council was 167 concerned about other areas in the City that potentially could see similar develop- 168 ment, he believed a path would be to look at a moratorium and that moratorium 169 would be focused on design standards. If the City Council were to pursue that he 170 thought that would be a conversation that would certainly encompass the Planning 171 Commission and some fairly significant outreach. From his perspective, when the 172 City amended these design standards, the component that was missed was that 173 broader community outreach. 174 175 Councilmember Groff explained he was on the Planning Commission when the 176 City started the Comprehensive Plan review and the City made every effort to in- 177 clude people and a lot of it was on Zoom. He noted one of the things that has not Page 5 of 50