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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 23, 2010 Page 18 Councilmember Roe suggested including Institutional uses under the Community Business, Regional Business and Neighborhood Business Districts; and whether they should be included in this draft of brought forward later; with staff recom- mending that they be included on the Table of Uses as applicable in this draft, as they were text amendments not systematic changes to the Comprehensive Plan at the Metropolitan Council level. Councilmember Ihlan addressed the former Shopping Center District and her con- cerns related to preserving the buffer zone along the south side of the Har Mar Mall in the proposed code as addressed and ensured under the current code. Councilmember Ihlan opined that the recent letter from Mayor Klausing to a resi- dent, copied to Councilmembers, maybe misleading. Staff was asked to ensure that standards for buffer zones apply across the board unless specific to a particular Business use to ensure those standards remain as currently stated or enhanced as appropriate or within a certain footage area of a specific use as applicable. Mr. Paschke noted that some of the standards were universal and would apply to Employment Districts -Office/Business Park, and Industrial, and others would be specific to Shopping Center-type uses. Councilmember Ihlan expressed concern with the distinctions between Business categories as finally adopted and compared to discussion at the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee level regarding square footage guidelines for specific business districts. Councilmember Ihlan reiterated her advocacy for a code simi- lar to the City of Edina model and its fairly detailed description of permitted sues woven into square footage limitations or other descriptions for infrastructure re- quired to support them. As a bench handout, Councilmember Ihlan provided a sample of the Edina Code, and copies of the City of Roseville's current Zoning Code, Chapters 1001 and 1002, 1005, 1006 and 1007, attached hereto and made a part thereof, for comparison purposes. Public Comment John Sanoclu, 1378 West Ryan, Har Mar Mall neighborhood Mr. Sanocki expressed confusion on his part and that of many of his neighbors, regarding what the new designation meant to those residential properties on the south side of Har Mar Mall and protections provided in the current and proposed Zoning Codes. As discussed at the Planning Commission level, Mr. Trudgeon noted that the cur- rent and proposed Zoning Code were essentially unchanged as it related to the Har Mar neighborhood concerns. However, Mr. Trudgeon advised that the City needed to find a solution to ensure that the neighbors maintained what they now have into the future, and that keeping the buffer area zoned as R-1 as proposed by