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ATTACHMENT F <br />Regular Planning Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – Wednesday, June 1, 2022 <br />Page 8 <br />Member Schaffhausen indicated she had a question on the standards. She thought <br />about their capacity to actually influence change. She asked if the City actually has <br />the ability to influence change such as in packaging. <br /> <br />Ms. Gundlach thought the issue has come up a few times at the City Council level <br />about proposing requirements regarding plastic bags or take out containers. It has not <br />been anything that has been pursued yet but has been talked about. In the context of <br />what has been presented to the Commission, staff is thinking about if the businesses <br />through redevelopment commit to do these things then could unlock some of the <br />other incentives listed. She explained businesses have been through a lot in the last <br />few years with the Pandemic and starting to roll out some of these things could be <br />very burdensome on them. It is trying to find the right balance in regard to imposing <br />requirements regarding these issues because they are important versus what can <br />businesses practically do and what does the business have access to get instead of the <br />containers currently being used. <br /> <br />Member Pribyl one thing that is related to development that is tangent to that is that it <br />could be incentivized or required as a certain percentage of construction waste <br />management such as the waste recycling when building a new building. <br /> <br />Mr. Gundlach thought Ramsey County already required developers to sort the <br />demolition material and recycle what can be recycled. <br /> <br />Chair Kimble indicated she has seen some rebates related to that. <br /> <br />Member McGehee indicated it seemed to her that in every instance the City does not <br />have anything else to trade besides making a taller building, taking away impervious <br />surface or adding more density. <br /> <br />Member Pribyl asked how far can the City go in requiring things. She knew there <br />were some limitations on that but she knew in Duluth the developer has to choose <br />between a number of sustainability features. The developer does not have to do all of <br />them so they choose the ones that work best for the project, site or are most <br />affordable. If the City cannot require everything than maybe the City can require <br />some number of things. <br /> <br />Member McGehee indicated she liked that idea better. <br /> <br />Ms. Gundlach explained that was the idea behind the worksheet. She noted the City is <br />up against State Law that says the City cannot impose more restrictions that are more <br />restrictive than the building code and a lot of these sustainability things certainly <br />regarding net zero buildings and all of that is not required in the building code so staff <br />has to figure that out. Staff did not want to get the City in some legally precarious <br />position based on what is done here. The worksheet idea is not that the developer <br />automatically gets all of the incentives in it, it would be a point system. The right <br />balance is going to need to be found on that worksheet and she wanted the worksheet <br />to live outside of the Zoning Code because staff wants to be able to adapt and amend <br /> <br />