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Northwestern College elected to purchase this land specifically because careful selection and evaluation of the rural aspects of the area were conducive to the image and attitude of the kind of study and kind of student Northwestern wanted to attract. The same is true of the residents who have elected to live in this area of Roseville. Now Northwestern wishes to increase the density of the development of buildings, housing, and parking facilities on the campus to the level of a metropolitan area. It is in direct opposition to the reasons for moving out of the city. Northwestern has compared itself to campuses such as Bethel A cursory review of a local map will show that the acreage designed as belonging to Bethel College is over twice the area encompassed by Northwestern College at the present time. Additionally, with the underlying R1 zoning in the area, as designed by the planner in the Comprehensive Plan for Roseville, there is no more land available for future development for Northwestern College in this community. Topographical and soil geology considerations have not been adequately addressed in the plan as submitted. No soil bore samplings have been taken to address the porosity of the land. There is no evidence to indicate whether the proposed ponding and drainage areas which will be on the campus under the proposed plan are adequate to serve the needs of controlling the rate of runoff and level of erosion from excessive runoff. We do not know at present whether the bottoms of the proposed ponds are clay, sand, mixtures of various elements in a combination which will work to the benefit of controlling runoff and holding back excessive amounts of water from heavy rainfall periods and heavy spring snowmelts or not. The amount of developed area, the percentage of land covered by parking areas, buildings and roads inside the campus area seems excessive to petitioners compared to the acreage of developable land available.