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<br />I <br />:. 2:.~i:? '?,'2:!':'. <br /> l6"70 GleDT.Tle\-l C::::..::.rt. <br /> 'Zl.Y',-L:>n u-i 11 c.: MN 5511:2-23Q7 <br /> ~*-~~.. .._~---~, <br /> 612/636-4359 <br /> ;~'!:J ~: ;1 () ~1':;Jh <br /> ',', , <br /> Marc~ 3, 1995 <br />I '.L.' <br /> Mr. Pr;;:),...., ];'''''';+--'::;1''1'''':::::'''''''' <br /> ......~..;.......~. ~..;........~..;........*.':l~..;.. <br />I City of Arden Bills <br /> 1450 West Hight.\ray 96 <br /> Arden Hills, Minnesota 55112-5794 <br />I , <br /> He: IT:::. 1 .::::.n+; n;:::. wi 1 1 c nC.~TO 1 r'lnm.on1- <br /> ~ ~-4__"'-""'."'-' _.................~ -'-'~ v '-.....~.t,-"."......*~ <br /> Dear Mr. Fritsinger: <br />I <br /> First I would like to thank you for your time on the phone this <br /> morning and for assuring me that this letter will be copied and <br />I distributed to all city council and planning commission members. I do <br /> appreciate your willingness to listen and to answer questions. I had <br /> called you Thursday morning because I wanted to clarify, from my <br /> perspective, what happened at the public hearing Wednesday night. <br />I Further, I wanted to ask what could be done so these processes might go <br /> more smoothly in the future. Thank you for returning my call. <br />II From the wording of the hearing notices we received on or about <br /> February 16, many of us believed that the issues to be discussed concerned <br /> Ifan application for a site plan review" and "an application to amend the <br /> land use plan of the city." Had the notices stated more clearly that the <br />I land ltlas already "apparently owned (purchased) by the develoDer" instead <br /> of 3ethel College, we might have inferred that the issue was single and <br /> narrow in scope (concerning only details of the PUD) and that the larger <br /> question of the land use plan was moot because of the zoning and signed <br />I purchase agreement. (One commissioner attempted, perhaps, to allude to the <br /> truth of the si~uation by noting, in the middle of the hearing, that the <br /> city could not completely dictate what owners might to do with their <br />I land. ) <br /> By the end of the hearing, the citizens in attendance were clearly <br /> experiencing frustration on many counts. They had arrived with a concern <br />I about possibly losing a piece of land that most thought was part of the <br /> county open space. To many peoples' understanding, this issue was the <br /> purpose of the hearing. Frustration mounted as we realized that the <br /> development plan had already gone beyond its preliminary phase and that <br />I only a few details were at issue. Thus we came to understand that the <br /> purpose of the meeting 1,.;a3 not to discuss the Dossible loss of the land to <br /> development but rather to revie'w some limited options for its apparently <br />I inevitable de~Ielopment . The developer's belated statements that he held a <br /> signed purchase agreement and would "hold Bethel College to it" simply put <br /> most people over the edge, so to speak. <br />I These "misunderstandings"--that seemed to some people to be more <br /> accurately !'misrepresentations"--caused several to say they had come to a <br />, hearing held under false pretenses. The crucial and underlying issue of <br /> open versus developed space in the city's plan was not even available for <br /> discussion, and the determining fact of the signed purchase agreement had <br /> been 1,.;i thheld from us until the end. Essentially, it seemed that this was <br />I <br />
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