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10/13/2008
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Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee <br />September 11, 2008 <br />Page 3 <br />support for a Community Center, the Council is certainly free to explore any options <br />available and in the past would have had a very strong supporter in Tom Kough. Should <br />the Council decide to pursue a Community Center option in the future, the Council could <br />simply approve it or chose to have a referendum on the acquisition-neither of which <br />would be in any way impacted by any previous plans regarding the City Center Master <br />Plan. <br />Finally, and most importantly, is the issue of implementation. Nowhere are there <br />concrete plans or a defined process for public input in the planning stages for any <br />development proposals within the city. In the past couple of years we have observed the <br />"Stakeholders' Panel," the "Lot Split Committee," and now the "Comprehensive Plan <br />Steering Committee." It is without any criticism of any residents serving on these <br />committees that I say the entire process is flawed and in no way provides genuine citizen <br />participation or input. In each of these cases, resident members were appointed by the <br />City Council, often by the same 3/2 split that has become the City Council's preferred <br />method of operation in the past several years. In each case, the "appointed" residents <br />were outnumbered by the aggregate of consultants (hired by the Council), staff (serving <br />at the pleasure of the City Manager hired by the Council), "appointed resident members <br />of other city Commissions and /or developers anxious be make a profit in Roseville. It is <br />not "leadership" to stack the deck. <br />It is "leadership" to be confident enough to allow residents a genuine opportunity to <br />engage in discussion, elect chairs of their groups and committees, and vote on important <br />issues. It is also entirely likely that resident groups are perfectly capable of studying <br />issues and drafting reports which could then by worked on jointly with staff until astaff- <br />resident consensus could be reached and presented to the Council. At such a point the <br />Council could hold public hearings and move forward with a document before them that <br />actually represented, at least in part, the wishes of residents and had been reviewed and <br />confirmed by staff as workable and appropriate. <br />"Open Houses" are not a substitute for resident input and work on a specific issue. <br />Lectures are not a substitute for writing a research paper. In the past few years, perhaps <br />since the Vista 2000, Roseville government has maintained only tacit acknowledgement <br />of the wishes or abilities of its residents. This is evidenced by the hundreds of residents <br />that actively participated in Vista 2000 versus the under 100 that actively participated in <br />Imagine Roseville 2025. In the case of the "Stakeholders Panel" and the "Lot Split <br />Committee" residents were asked for their input and opinions on various issues, yet when <br />the final reports were issued those opinions were completely ignored. In the case of this <br />Steering .Committee, the residents I spoke to at the first open house were generally <br />
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