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~c~ +Fanda~-E- <br />M <br />Driscoll <br />From: Pat Trudgeon <br />sSent: Friday, April 23, 2010 3:07 PM <br />To: *RVCouncil <br />Subject: FW: Solar permitting and Resolution <br />FYI for Monday night. <br />Patrick Trudgeon, AICP <br />City of Roseville <br />Community Development Director <br />2660 Civic Center Drive <br />Roseville, MN 55113 <br />(651) 792-7071 <br />(651) 792-7070 (fax) <br />pat.trudgeon(cDci.roseville.mn.us <br />www.ci.roseville.mn.us <br />From: Pat Trudgeon <br />Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 3:06 PM <br />To: 'susan.weum@smiths-medical.com' <br />Cc: Thomas Paschke; Don Munson <br />Subject: FW: Solar permitting and Resolution <br />Susan, <br />Thanks for your comments. I appreciate your input. As you know, we do not have any codes to regulate the placement of <br />solar energy systems and we have scrambled to get something in place to better allow for these systems. Solar energy <br />systems are something that we as a City certainly want to encourage as an option for our residents. <br />Given that doing a whole ordinance could take several months, staff is proposing that the City adopt a policy in the <br />interim to address the installation solar energy systems which as you know will be discussed by the City Council on <br />Monday night. We based the policy over a model ordinance that is used by several cities. We did make some <br />modifications in translating it from an ordinance to a policy. For instance (and the heart of the matter as it relates to your <br />concerns), the model ordinance allows systems with a pitch more than 5% as a Conditional Use (which is a specific land <br />use approval the City Council gives). As we are doing a policy, we cannot mandate that it will be conditional use. <br />]nstead, we would need to amend the code to state that pitches over 5% are conditional uses.....and then we are back to <br />square one with the timing issue. <br />So instead, we removed the reference to the Conditional Use and instead just said that they were not allowed, in full <br />anticipation that we would allow for greater pitches through some process once the ordinance was worked out in the fall. <br />However, it is apparent that we need to have it addressed as part of the policy now, so in looking at the matter we will <br />suggest to the City Council on Monday night that the policy should be changed to allow for systems with a pitch 5% <br />greater than the pitch of roof after additional review and approval by staff (Any installation of a solar energy system <br />requires a building permit). Specifically the language would be changed to read as follows: <br />Solar Systems with Mounting Devices -Solar systems using roof mounting devices or ground-mount <br />solar systems shall not be restricted if the system is not visible from the closest edge of any public right- <br />of-way other than an alley. Roof-mount systems that are visible from the nearest edge of the street <br />frontage right-of--way shall not have a highest finished pitch more than five (5) percent steeper than the <br />roof pitch on which the system is mounted, and shall be no higher than ten (10) inches above the roof <br />unless the system is reviewed and approved by Community Development staff to ensure the additional <br />pitch of the system meets the wind load standards for the roof and there are not major aesthetic impacts <br />
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