Terraces of Roseville residents ask council to waive appeal fee and call for traffic study

At the Jan. 15 Roseville City Council meeting, residents of the Terraces of Roseville urged the council to consider a fee waiver or refund to allow them to file an appeal of a Planning Commission decision. Jennifer Chapman, a resident, asked that the council put a fee-waiver or refund request on the next meeting agenda after they file the appeal, saying the $1,735 fee would otherwise bar tenants from participating in the appeal process.

Chapman said the 30-day public-review period ran from Dec. 5 to Jan. 6 over the holidays and that tenants, who are not property owners, did not receive notice. She said she had contacted the Planning Commission in November but that the facility’s executive director was on vacation and the notice pathway was unclear.

Chapman also said the project lacks a site-specific traffic study and stressed the presence of "200 senior citizens" living at the Terrace, "plus all the fire engines and ambulances and the 90 employees that work there and the families that visit." Jerry Fuller, another Terrace resident, described difficulty exiting the site onto Sunrise Avenue and said there had been "numerous accidents" at that access. Fuller urged council to visit the site during rush hour to observe conditions.

No council action or vote on the waiver was recorded at the meeting; Chapman requested the item be placed on the next agenda following the filing of the appeal. The council did not rule on the request during the Jan. 15 meeting. Staff and council did not offer a substantive response in the record to the claims about notice or the traffic-study status during the meeting.