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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 22, 2010 Page 12 chase and improvement of an available and currently vacant site in Roseville after a seven year search by the congregation for a suitable location, as supported by the unanimous support of the Planning Commission. Mr. Peterson referenced the Federal Religious Land Use Act invalidating any loss of revenue argument and protecting the right of a church to become a permitted use if other similar uses area allowed; and requested City Council support of this application. Public Comment Eric Bluhm, Pastor with North Heights Lutheran Church (Home address: 4008 Benjamin Place; Columbia Heights, MN) Mr. Bluhm provided City Manager Malinen a written letter of support from the Roseville Ministerial Fellowship, endorsing T4C's request and recommending approval of their application. Louis Eng, Roseville Resident Mr. Eng, living several blocks from the Twin lakes Redevelopment Area, spoke in support of the proposed church location at the Denny Hecker site as opposed to near a more residential area, given the potential impacts to residential housing creating more traffic on weekends; while opining that the facility on Long Lake Road would be isolated from those residential areas. Mr. Eng spoke in support of the provisions of the Imagine Roseville 2025 vision for attracting diversity, and spoke in support of the application of T4C as a great chance for the City to pro- mote this diversity. Councilmember Roe spoke in support of Institutional and church uses in other districts established throughout the Comprehensive Plan, opining that the current zoning code, with approval of this type of use by Conditional Use application made sense and allowed consideration of impacts to surrounding neighborhoods. Councilmember Roe noted that his concern was that this was a proposed zoning text amendment making this a permitted use, not a conditional use; and was sup- portive of the Planning Commission rationale in supporting it since the zoning code was changing soon; and reiterated his support for Conditional Use. Councilmember Pust noted discussions at the Steering Committee level for Re- gional Business land use designation based on traffic generation; and suggested that the real issue was whether to take this property off the tax rolls for this non- profit use, opining that such consideration was not appropriate criteria for consid- eration. Councilmember Pust opined that this request was consistent with the Imagine Roseville 2025 vision for diversity support; and that it also provided another additional benefit provided by non-profits even when weighed against less tax dollars; and spoke in support of the application and proposed location. Councilmember Ihlan opined that the basis for this decision was with the Com- prehensive Plan, and based on that alone, amendment of the zoning text was not indicated and inconsistent. Councilmember Ihlan provided her interpretation of