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_� 5.0 SITE HISTORY .� 5.1 Industrial development of the Twin Lakes area began in the 1950s. It developed as a major concentration of over-the-road trucking companies and related businesses because sites were large and inexpensive and the area was accessible to the highway system and close to both downtown Minneapolis and St. PauL With the federal deregulation of the trucking industry in 1970s and 80s, the trucking industry nationwide was dramatically affected, which inevitably affected this portion of Roseville. It has resulted in trucking terminals reducing, moving or consolidating their operations, and in some cases, even going out of business. This in turn affected the businesses that support the trucking activities in the area. Faced with this change and potential deterioration of the area in 1988, the City designated the 280 acre area as the Twin Lakes RedevelopmentArea. In 1990 the City created a tax increment financing district to assist with its long-range redevelopment. (An aerial photo recount of the trailers parked or stored in Twin Lakes in 2003 found nearly 1,300 trailers still parked in the RedevelopmentArea.) 5.2 Planning for the redevelopment of the 280 acre Twin Lakes site began in the mid-1980s. In 1987-88 the City, with the assistance of the consulting fiim of b�hlgr�n, Shardlow and Uban, developed a land use plan, which called for the redevelopment of the trucking area to provide a variety of office, retail, business and light industrial uses. (The indu�trial uses and trucking uses had become a traffic congestion, noise, odor, and water quality imtant in the neighborhood.) The City submitted that plan for review by the Metropolitan Council, and the Metropolitan Council asked for additional information concerning retail traffic and its impact on I-35W, especially the (at that time) non-alignedramp, poor quality of County Road C and D, and indefinite plans for the business parkway. As a result, the City withdrew its proposed 1988 Twin Lakes Plan from further Metropolitan Council review and determined that there should be additional mixed-uses, office, and light industrial in the area. This could be accomplished under the existing Comprehensive Plan and zoning. The City adopted a revised redevelopment plan as a portion of the major Comprehensive Plan amendment approved in 1994. Since 1985 the zoning within the Twin Lakes area remained a combination of light and heavy industrial uses as well as one 10 acre "B-4" (Retail-Office-Service) zoned parcel and one B-1 (Office) parcel. 5.3 Redevelopment from trucking and heavy industry worked well from 1994 — 1997 when Ryan Companies developed four sites. From 1997 through 1999 the market changed and no redevelopmentoccurred. The City Council requested a Twin Lakes development review and a new "Renewal Strategy" which would be more consistent with the real estate market. In June 2001, (after several neighborhood, developer and property owner focus group meetings) the Twin Lakes Renewal Strategy and Master Plan Supplement to the Comprehensive Plan were completed. The City Council approved the environmental statement called an Alternate Urban Area Review (AUAR), changed the Comprehensive Plan map land use designation to "�F'' Mixed Use Business Park and received EPA grants to start the clean-up of the under used Brownfieldcontaminated sites. PF3S95 — RCA Concept Plan and PrelimPlat Approval - 102504 Page 5