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City Council Regular Meeting —11/08/04 <br />DRAFT Minutes - Page 23 <br />8.a Process for Addressing the Environmental Assessment <br />Worksheet (EAW) Petition <br />City Attorney Scott Anderson provided background <br />information regarding the Twin Lakes <br />Development/Citizen Environmental Review Petition filed <br />with the Environmental Quality Board (EQB), received on <br />Friday, October 22, 2004, prior to the City Council's <br />anticipated consideration of Rottlund Homes' Twin Lakes <br />Redevelopment at their October 25, 2004, regular Council <br />meeting. <br />Mr. Anderson noted that, by letter from the EQB to the <br />City of Roseville dated October 25, 2004, the EQB had <br />designated the City of Roseville as the Responsible <br />Government Unit (RGU) on the Petition, obligating the <br />City Council to determine whether action requested by the <br />petition — seeking Environmental Review prior to <br />consideration of the Twin Lakes Development Plan — was <br />necessary. <br />Mr. Anderson noted that the City had prepared an <br />Alternative Urban Area-wide Review (AUAR) study of <br />the Twin Lakes area in 2001, adopted and approved per <br />EQB rules. Mr. Anderson advised that, by EQB rule, any <br />future project in the study area was exempt from further <br />environmental review as long as the AUAR remained <br />valid, with EQB rules specifying circumstances under <br />which an AUAR became invalid, such as "substantial <br />changes" occurring since the AUAR study was conducted <br />that would demonstrate the study is substantially in error, <br />or that environmental effects have been substantially <br />underestimated. <br />Mr. Anderson noted that the principal question for Council <br />determination related to the petition, was whether the <br />AUAR remained valid. Mr. Anderson advised that the <br />EQB did not find the process for determining continuing <br />validity of an AUAR as an alternative form or method of <br />environmental review, but the EQB rules did require that a <br />determination be made by December 6, 2004. Based on <br />that requirement, and taking into consideration the interest <br />Process for <br />Addressing the <br />Environmental <br />Assessment <br />Worksheet (EAW) <br />Petition <br />