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Stakeholder group provides feedback on new Civic Campus design

New city buildings and Veterans Park designs in process

Naomi Krueger

10 Apr 2026 — 6 min read

The Civic Campus Stakeholder group meeting in a lower-level meeting room at City Hall on January 15, 2026 | credit: Naomi Krueger/The Roseville Reader

Progress continues on the design and planning for the Roseville Civic Campus expansion with a new layout. A stakeholder group has formed to provide feedback on the details.

An architect from LHB has been working on developing a final layout design for the License/Passport Center and Design Studio (LPCDS) and Maintenance Operations Center (MOC). This design is an evolution of the Concept C option approved by the Roseville city council on July 7, 2025.

The Maintenance Operations Center project will be paid for with the Roseville sales tax that went into effect on July 1, 2025. The LPCDS will be paid for with other funding sources after the ballot measure to use the same sales tax failed in November 2024.

A community stakeholder group has met twice so far this year to give input on the designs, once in January and once in February.

This group is made up of one representative from each of the five city advisory commissions, plus a representative each from the VFW, Showtime Studio & Coffee, and the neighborhood. Roseville City Councilmember Julie Strahan was appointed by the city council to this group as well. City staff involved in these meetings include City Manager Pat Trudgeon, Parks and Recreation Director Matt Johnson, Public Works Director Jesse Freihammer, and License Center Manager Pam Ryan Senden.

The resident from the Griggs Street neighborhood missed the first two meetings due to an email mix-up on the city's end, but was able to meet with city staff and consultants in early April to get his feedback, according to Trudgeon. A representative from the Lexington Apartments and Townhomes was invited, but has not participated so far.

In February, the group provided input on window and building facade options as well as outdoor privacy buffer options. They also gave input on potential park amenities and the parking lot layout.

Civic Campus Design Plan

The current Civic Campus layout is shown at left. The proposed new layout for the new buildings is shown at right. | *Design renderings courtesy of the City of Roseville*

The plan is to split the MOC between the current location south of Woodhill Drive and the new location north of Woodhill, where the current License Center and Lexington Shoppes strip mall sits. A new one-story building will be built on the western edge of Veteran's Park. This building will house the License and Passport offices as well as the city's dance studio for Parks and Recreation programs.

The parking lot will be redesigned and is projected to have 150 stalls, according to the Feb. 12 stakeholder meeting presentation.

Veteran's Park will be partly preserved and reimagined in the remaining space and the VFW will stay put in its current location.

Here's the current rendering of the planned layout for the project:

MOC = Maintenance Operation Center. LCPDS = License Center Passport and Dance Studio | *Design rendering courtesy of the City of Roseville*

The stakeholder group was assembled to provide feedback on the overall site configuration, landscape and buffering structures on the edges of the project, design elements of the buildings, and mitigation efforts to minimize the impact to surrounding properties.

This site is bordered by a neighborhood of single-family homes to the west and an apartment complex to the north. On the east side of Lexington is another residential neighborhood, including single-family, multi-unit housing, and senior living. To the south is the current Civic Campus and Skating Center.

Design renderings for the new building which will house the License/Passport Center offices and the Parks and Recreation Dance Studio. | *Design renderings courtesy of the City of Roseville*

Next Steps

The city is now working with the architect on the internal layout of the facilities, according to City Manager Pat Trudgeon.

The next stakeholder meeting will be sometime in May and a presentation will come before the city council in June, but no exact dates have been set.

Stakeholder group meetings are open to the public to observe the conversation, but not to participate. Residents who wish to provide feedback can contact the city council or provide input at a city council meeting or commission meeting.

Site preparation, grading, and construction of the License/Passport Center & Dance Studio is expected to begin in fall and winter 2026. The Lexington Shoppes will be demolished and a new maintenance yard will be constructed in 2027. The existing Maintenance Facility south of Woodhill will be remodeled and expanded in 2028-2029.