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the project. The guidelines address the overall character/level of quality, building materials and fa�ade treatments, road network and character (including cross sections, paths, trails, etc.), landscaping, trash collection, utilities, and other infrastructure, parks and green spaces, parking lot layouts and landscaping, and coordinated signage. 10.4 In addition to these provisions the developer has outlined ways in which the project will achieve many of the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards for "Green" Building and site design. Refer to the attached memo from Rottlund Companies dated September 28,2004. 1 _ �I �► �► = : �1111 ►1_ �► �/i :i •i • ii � • �� - '•�• i� �: � . 1 l.1 In the mid 1980's, the City of Roseville adopted a long term policy (and retains it in the current Comprehensive Plan) to remove trucking and industrial uses from the east side of 35W, in order to create a more complementary neighbor to adjacent, northern and eastern residential areas. This concept proposal is consistent with the comprehensive plan and policy. I 1.� The City of Roseville (by policy) owns no land within the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area and must rely on the market and private sector development companies and land owners to reclaim and construct the new Twin Lakes neighborhood. The Community Development Department has been directed to market the redevelopment of Twin Lakes. Staff has discussed and promoted the Twin Lakes area to the maj ority of the top development companies in the Twin Cities over the past 6-8 years. This proposal from the private sector (with over half the land owned or controlled by the developers) is the most comprehensive and coordinated redevelopmentproposed during that time. 11.3 Without a comprehensive and coordinated approach, the existing industrial zoning and uses may remain or be slowly (and individually) redeveloped, making neighborhood wide redevelopment impossible. The consistent response from the development community is that it is very challenging (and a higher risk) to invest and redevelop higher quality uses (on a parcel by parcel basis) adjacent to a blighted truck terminal. 11.4 The cost of creating or acquiring new industrial and truck terminal sites that meet all current operational and regulatoryrequirements is more expensive than maintaining existing "grandfathered" industrial sites. Therefore, the existing sites are valuable for trucking. Converting them to office, retail, and housing uses requires significant more investment than (despite their blighted appearance and despite the pollution generated there) building on a third ring suburban vacant site. 11.5 Redevelopment of 80 blighted acres by removing partially vacant trucking and truck terminal warehousing will improve the environmental and visual quality of the County Road C and Cleveland entry to Roseville and will spur future redevelopment to the east and north. 11.6 Redevelopment will reduce trucking as an active land use within 80 acres and thereby will reduce trucking activities on local streets. PF3595_RCA_Twin_Lakes_General_Concept_122004 Page 25