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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 29, 2010 Page 2 Community Development Director Patrick Trudgeon provided a brief overview and time- line of the request of Bituminous Roadways for outdoor storage of aggregate materials as a CONDITIONAL USE in support of the operation of an asphalt plant at 2280 Walnut Street; and provided a background of the request to -date, as detailed in the Request for Council Action (RCA) dated November 29, 2010. Mr. Trudgeon clarified that the land use action before the City Council tonight was to review the original Conditional Use ap- plication by the applicant for outdoor storage of aggregate materials related to, but not specific to use as an asphalt plant; however, he noted that the proposed use of the site for an asphalt plant would be addressed by staff as part of the Conditional Use request. Mr. Trudgeon advised that portions of the asphalt plant, including any subordinate use for outdoor aggregate and fuel storage, were prohibited. A copy of Roseville City Code, Chapter 1007 Industrial Districts, Section 1007.01 Gen- eral Requirements, a part of Ordinance 1303, dated February 9, 2004, was provided as a bench handout, attached hereto and made a part hereof Mr. Trudgeon advised that, in conjunction with the City Attorney, and following their ex- tensive review of the public record related to this application, staff was recommending that the CONDITIONAL USE be denied, based on the facts and findings detailed in the RCA, and attachments to the report made part of the record. Related to the amendment to City Ordinance, Mr. Trudgeon reviewed the information available to staff and staff s original review of that information when the application was first received in March of 2009 for the manufacturing use as initially proposed; the ordin- ance amendment enacted in October of 2010; reasoning that rock crushing was not a manufacturing use; the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) process and sub- sequent public comment. Mr. Trudgeon advised that it was staff's determination to rec- ommend that the City Council deny the CONDITIONAL USE application for outdoor storage of material piles, based on the related asphalt plant not being a permitted use in a General Industrial District, and on the findings contained in Section 5 of the RCA dated November 29, 2010. Councilmember Ihlan questioned whether the EAW was mandatory or voluntary. Mr. Trudgeon advised that the mandatory portion of the EAW was related to fuel tanks proposed for the site, which use went beyond voluntary, but had not been part of the orig- inal request. Mr. Trudgeon advised that when the EAW process was initiated by a peti- tion of concerned citizens, and voluntarily agreed to by the applicant Bituminous Road- ways, noting that their future development of the site would include fuel storage tanks, the applicant decided to include the fuel tanks in the EAW process. Mr. Trudgeon noted one staff correction to the draft Resolution (Attachment M) included in the RCA packet dated November 29, 2010 (Attachment M), on page3 and 4, lines 171 173, the referenced source for findings listed under "Item G" should be page 8 of a let-