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Attachment 3 with limited hands-on learning. Directly adjacent is the much larger Public Programming room. This room provides a venue for events where the public can be more interactive such as “Fix-It Clinics” where people bring in household items and learn how to do general repair. The general administrative requirements for operation of the building and the public amenities such as toilets are located adjacent to the public spaces. These public/administrative spaces are placed on the south end of the building towards Larpenteur Avenue. This provides an appropriate buffer between the public way and the taller warehouse space, along with a generally more aesthetic appearance from Larpenteur Avenue. In-keeping with the site’s current function, outdoor storage of loose materials as needed by the County’s Public Works department will occur on the northern portion of the parcel, but will be blocked from public view by significant vegetative buffering and by the Environmental Service Center itself. Other proposed accessory uses throughout the Environmental Service Center site include outdoor gathering space to be used for educational programming; educational signage associated with sustainable building, site, and stormwater functions; recreational trails; and an accessible sidewalk connection to Larpenteur Avenue. As part of this project, improvements are planned for Kent Street, the private roadway that will be used to access the site from Larpenteur Avenue. Why is the intended use not currently permitted by existing use? According to the language within table 1007.2 of Title 10 of the Roseville City Code, a “Government office” is a permitted use within parcels zoned as institutional. This language is too specific to apply to Government uses in general, and as the proposed Government Environmental Service Center use provides more than just office space it does not conform to the existing code as written. How would the intended use be permitted under the proposed zoning text amendment? The addition of “Government Environmental Service Center” as a conditional use within table 1007.2, and an associated definition for this term within section 1001.10, would allow this use to be permitted per approval of a conditional use application. Will any additional land use applications (e.g. conditional use permit or variance) be necessary to accommodate the intended use in compliance with the requirements of the proposed zoning change? Yes, a Conditional Use Permit will be required per this zoning text amendment, and an application for which has been submitted in conjunction with the Zoning Text Amendment Application. CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NARRATIVE Describe how the proposed use is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan Roseville’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan identifies the existing land use of this site as institutional and has planned for the site to remain classified as institutional in the future. With the proposed facility’s civic use, medium scale and intensity, incorporation of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and connections to nearby transit stops, it is appropriately suited for this location as defined by the comprehensive plan.