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City Council Regular Meeting — 07/12/04 <br />DRAFT Minutes - Page 29 <br />the developers had been extremely sensitive and responsive to <br />the community and panel suggestions. Ms. Larson chose <br />Proposal 2 from those proposals reviewed, with the smaller <br />retailers in the front and the big box less visible, noting <br />Costco's flexibility in designing to the City's aesthetic <br />preferences, opining that just because it was a"big box," didn't <br />mean it had to be ugly. <br />Ms. Larson concluded by again supporting the process and <br />thanking the City Council for the opportunity to serve and learn <br />through the process. <br />Gale Pederson, representing a service-based business owner <br />in the Twin Lakes area <br />Ms. Pederson noted that, as the business owner's representative, <br />she had been making periodic reports to them throughout on the <br />process itself, noting that the first five or six meetings had been <br />educational, and that in her thirty years as a Roseville resident, <br />and her lengthy service as a Parks and Recreation <br />Commissioner and Chair, she had learned more during this <br />process than ever before. Ms. Pederson noted that Roseville <br />demographics were changing, that it was an "aging" <br />community, and better housing was needed to bring young <br />singles into the community to support the City services and <br />schools. Ms. Pederson reviewed the numerous City amenities <br />and solidness of the community. <br />Ms. Pederson acknowledged that the developers had their ideas, <br />but they put everything on the table, and allowed the panel's <br />feedback, and they made concessions, specifically substantially <br />more residential and less retail, and provided valid explanations <br />for their proposed development. <br />Ms. Pederson encouraged the community, and the City Council, <br />to not compromise the project because of the retail component, <br />and to look at the positive of the additional housing and clean <br />up of a blighted area. Ms. Pederson opined that the only <br />consideration should be whether the project would work <br />financially, and if it took retail to get the housing and eliminate <br />the blighted land, the tax base would serve the best interests of <br />