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From:Holdenbj24 <br />To:Matthew Bachler <br />Subject:Fwd: Subdivision of 3685 New Brighton Road <br />Date:Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:02:45 AM <br />Sent from my iPhone <br />Begin forwarded message: <br />Resent-From: <bholden@cityofardenhills.org> <br />From: Julie <jroliverius@hotmail.com> <br />Date: February 13, 2018 at 6:41:01 PM CST <br />To: "dgrant@cityofardenhills.org" <dgrant@cityofardenhills.org>, <br />"davemcclung@comcast.net" <davemcclung@comcast.net>, <br />"sscott@cityofardenhills.org" <sscott@cityofardenhills.org>, <br />"bholden@cityofardenhills.org" <bholden@cityofardenhills.org>, <br />"fholmes@cityofardenhills.org" <fholmes@cityofardenhills.org> <br />Cc: Rich Oliverius <rloliverius@hotmail.com> <br />Subject: Subdivision of 3685 New Brighton Road <br />Dear City Council Members, <br />My husband and I would like to add our voices to those of other neighbors who <br />have concerns regarding the proposed sub-division of 3685 New Brighton Road <br />into 3 home lots. Our initial concern is that this proposal feels like an attempt to <br />take every possible short cut to "meet" minimum property requirements to allow <br />this one-home property to be sub-divided to allow 3 homes. The fact that the <br />current home must be modified by 1) moving their driveway 2) changing the <br />orientation and address of the home 3) removing the deck ; just to meet the <br />minimum side setbacks speaks to over-development of the property. <br />Additionally, there several variances that must be put into place with regards to <br />the existing lift station to allow for 2 additional driveways. In 2007 when this <br />same developer attempted to place 1 additional home on this same property the <br />city engineer raised concerns about how the shrunken easement "may not be <br />sufficient for reconstructing the lift station in the future" [1]. This statement by <br />the engineer proved to be true when the lift station was rebuilt in 2012 and the <br />size of the existing easement had to be increased. If there are driveways running <br />through this easement when work needs to be done on the lift station in the <br />future who would be responsible for covering the cost of having to remove and <br />replace portions of these driveways? If there was not enough space to consider <br />adding 1 driveway in the past how can it make sense to allow the addition of 2