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e e e E~h;t,;f A 17 BETHEL COLLEGE & SEMINARY Office of Physical Plant and Campus Planning Bethel College & Seminary 3900 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112~6999 651-638-6200 fa" 651-638-6009 www.herhel.edu March 26, 1999 Nancy 1. Randall Associate Planner City of Arden Hills 4363 W Round Lake Road Arden Hills, MN 55112 Re: Planning Case 99-05, Site Plan Application Per your letter of3/15/99 we are supplying the following information you requested: I) Written statement in response to issue No. I; * More parking is needed to support the parking requirements for our new dormitory scheduled for occupancy in August, 1999. We initially thought we could supply parking for this dormitory from our current West parking lot. With the increase in our student population, especially the commuter students, our experience this year shows the need for additional parking close to this facility. We do not see a significant increase in our trips per day. The Seminary Village building 4061 currently being used for College housing will return to married housing this Fall. Those students will be placed in the new dorm as well as students currently commuting. The reduction in commuting students as well as the moving of the students at the Village will off-set increases in trips per day. Additionally parking restrictions and management plans (see attached Community Announcement from the President dated 12/10/98) should help control the trips per day. We are committed by our previous agreement to conduct a traffic study in 2002 to monitor our traffic. * Additional parking for the future will be "incidental" in nature apart from the lot shown on our approved Master Plan just North of the Seminary. * We are hoping to relocate the tennis courts in the area West of our campus and Old Snelling currently being considered for joint park development with the City. A location just to the West of our current west parking lot is being considered as a possibility if the development West of Old Snelling does notmateriali~- * The construction parking in the location West of our current west parking lot will be used only until approximately June I, 1999. At that time construction parking can take place in the West lot. This area will be reseeded in the summer and returned for use as an intramural field in the fall.