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Page 1 of 2 , Hellegers, Peter e From: WIEMANN9@aol.com Sent: Sunday, May01, 200512:13 PM To: peter. hellegers@ci,arden,hills.mn.us Cc: Donna. wiemann@ci.minneapolis,mn.us Subject: PC#05-12 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed Dear Peter, t reside at 1406 Arden View Drive which is directly south of the vacant Arden Hills public works building, My husband and I are 30 year residents of Arden Hills....a great community. t have read the rr,aterials about the proposed PUD for 30 office condos and my husband allended the first meeting about this topic. I offer the following comments and request your response: 1. Currently there is considerable amount of vacant office and business space in the metro area. I realize that the proposed condo office will be ownership, however a) has there been a market study and, fi so, what does the market study say? b) will the City require Royal Oaks Realty to have presold a certain percentage of the space prior to sale of the property or will the development be completely speculative? c) what will be the size of each condo space? e d) whal will be the sale price per square foot of the condo space e) has the Ctiy received in the recent past inquires from business owners looking for space in Arden Hills ...getting back to the question of how likely will the spaces be sold? 2. I strongly encourage that the City hold the developer to its maximum height for parking light poles, I am assuming that the lighting will be on al night and would like to know how the lights will impact the residential area to the south to the extent it can be determined at this time. 3, Who Will be the property management company for the office condos? 4. Is there a possibility that the # of condo units could be reduced? If a reduced # of condos were developed, e.g 24 condo units, what are the repercussions e.g would the project still be a go, would the numbers work, and so forth. 5. Was the propcrty in quesiton RFP'd? What is the background leading up to the City considering a propoeral from Royal Oaks Realty? 6, Right now there are some dead and dying trees on the Ctiy property north of the property line between my home and the former public works maintenace garage, I know they will be removed and want to encourage City staff to really push for plenty of trees to be planted along the south side of the the developn:ent to insure the best buffer possible, 7. I suggest that the City require the developer to pul money in the development budget for insuring satisfaction of the projject development For example, if there turns out to be a huge problem with the trees or landscaping serving as a buffer, that the developer has money available to work out the problems, Or if there is a problwem wityh drainage and the developer needs to remedy I am certain there are other examples, but this is the only one I can think of at this time. Thank you, e Sincerely, 5/27/2005