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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, January 06, 2010 Page 11 encourage public participation and coordination, with the first public meeting scheduled on 514 February 4, 2010; the role of the Planning Commission during the process from the 515 consultant’s perspective; and homework assignments for Commissioners between 516 meetings, in addition to their facilitation at Public Hearings and making recommendations 517 to the City Council. 518 Mr. Lamb compared Roseville’s process to other metropolitan communities, with most of 519 those codes also dating back to the 1950’s and being Euclidian (i.e., focused on 520 separating uses), with rethinking integrative approaches, transit and movement issues, 521 tends, and form-based approaches to zoning. 522 Chair Doherty asked that continual communication and coordination among staff, 523 consultants, the Planning Commission, and the City Council be a priority to keep the City 524 Council abreast of the process and proposed revisions from the earliest stages. 525 Mr. Paschke advised that staff would provide periodic updates to the City Council 526 throughout the process; including those recommendations going before them from the 527 Planning Commission, in addition to the Public Hearings and community open houses 528 which they’ll be encouraged to attend, in addition to keeping informed through the City’s 529 website and other forms of engagement. 530 Suzanne Rhees, Cuningham Group 531 Ms. Rhees noted that this process was a very collaborative effort, with staff doing the 532 majority of the code writing and communication with the City Council, to ensure a more 533 cost-effective approach, with the consultant facilitating a limited number of meetings. 534 Ms. Rhees noted that a simplified summary of the process was to upgrade the zoning 535 code for use on its own without reliance on Planned Unit Developments (PUD), and 536 providing for more pedestrian-oriented commercial and retail properties as they redevelop. 537 Mr. Rhees provided, as part of her presentation, code review highlights and various issues 538 previously addressed by staff and Commissioners; proposed simplification of tables of 539 uses; synchronizing zoning districts with Comprehensive Plan categories; noted that there 540 would likely be few proposed changes to the City’s residential districts other than 541 streamlining those existing districts; allowing for more flexibility in the code; transit and 542 pedestrian considerations and an increase of green space; potential consideration of 543 incentives for sustainable development practices (e.g., storm water infiltration sites, green 544 roofs, daylighting, rain gardens, and pervious surface treatments). 545 Discussion among Commissioners and Cuningham Group consultants included 546 achievement of pedestrian-oriented approaches in suburban settings, specifically in an 547 established suburb such as Roseville, based on a long-term investment and commitment 548 (i.e., Excelsior and Grand; Richfield; Bloomington; St. Louis Park; Golden Valley); past 549 standards versus evolution in city building process through zoning codes and potential 550 commercial areas (i.e., Hamline, Lexington, Rice) that naturally cycle over time; and 551 commercial areas surrounded by single-family homes. 552 Chair Doherty strongly encouraged the need to continually and persistently explain form- 553 based zoning, its advantages and disadvantages, and how to help the public understand 554 the approach and why this is proposed after reviewing other alternatives. 555 Community Development Director Patrick Trudgeon advised that the entire process 556 needed to be vetted by the City’s policy boards and the City Council from its initial stages, 557 and clarify the role of the professional consultant in putting together the thoughts of the 558 public and policy-makers; with the overall goal to be in compliance with the City’s updated 559 Comprehensive Plan, and the need to continually remind the community of how we got to 560 this stage. 561 Ms. Rhees reviewed some of the proposed discussion points, such as the single-family lot 562 split study with the number of single-family lots nonconforming in terms of minimum lot 563 size introduced in 1959 and creation of the overlay district to compensate for that, with a 564