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ATTACHMENT F Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Page 11 then if they went above and beyond by ten or twenty percent that could be an opportunity to unlock an incentive. Member Schaffhausen explained if thought about, if today, demand is not high enough, an expense, as a result of that expense is also high. What the City is saying if the development is willing to take that on the City will offset that cost in some way based on this incentive. By keeping the number low, as far as the expectation, that actually helps with keeping that number at that one based on the requirement. Member Bjorum thought that just because it says low does not mean that it is not going to get done even more often than something that is high because if this is a point system and if he cannot going to do B but he wanted to get incentives on these he is going to hammer every single one of the low ones. There would be more opportunity to get it done and some of these items are a little less expensive so easier to obtain points. Ms. Gundlach explained Member Bjorum’s comments are exactly what staff was thinking of when ranking low, medium, and high. When this was initially done points were assigned to them but was pulled back on it because staff wanted this conversation to remain more conceptual but that is the exact reason why some of those environmental issues are ranked as lower points because they are easier and sometimes less expensive to incorporate into a project. Member Pribyl indicated she was wondering on the pervious pavements if that is something the City Engineer weighed in on at all. When the Commission looked at that before it has been a real challenge for maintenance in Minnesota and usually used in very limited areas. If this is something that a high incentive is being created for but is something that is not going to maintained over the long term, that is something the City really wants to not promote. Ms. Gundlach indicated they did include Public Works staff on this list. There is recognition that pervious pavements require maintenance in order to keep them pervious and that is going to be a challenge, just like maintaining LEED certification is going to be a challenge. That goes back to the sort of covenant conversation where if the development unlocked an incentive doing pervious pavements the covenant is going to obligate them to do the maintenance on those pervious pavements to make sure they remain pervious over time. Mr. Paschke explained how the City currently address it is typically with stormwater management and there are requirements and things recorded against the property that specify that they have to keep it pervious in perpetuity because they are getting credit for stormwater through both the Watershed Districts and through the City of Roseville. It is a convenient or some type of document that is recorded that they have to do that or if they remove it they will have to go in and do new stormwater management which may be an even higher standard because it is x years down the road.