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Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Arden Hills 1245 W. Highway 96 Arden Hills, MN 55112 -5743 Rip" Dear Mayor Harpstead and City Councilmembers: At its November 8, 2010, City Council meeting, the Roseville City Council received feedback from many residents that live in the neighborhood south of the Presbyterian Homes site. The residents had come to the meeting to express their concerns about the proposed new Presbyterian Homes project that we understand will be before the Arden Hills City Council for project consideration. The City Council discussed the feedback received, and would like your help to address the concerns that were brought up. The most significant concern of the residents in the area was the change in traffic patterns. Currently, the area along County Road D is not internally connected to the majority of the Presbyterian Homes site. The vast majority of traffic from the site has its main access to Lake Johanna Blvd. The proposed new access to County Road D at the south end of the project site is aligned with Wheeler Avenue in a four way stop configuration. Residents strongly believe that this configuration will create an attractive alternative to using Fairview Avenue for residents and employees on the site. This will cause a significant increase in the volume of traffic through their quiet residential neighborhood from drivers headed to Lydia Avenue, and a resulting decrease in the safety of that street for the residents. The residents and City Council discussed several alternatives to this configuration, and ask that you consider these as a means of reducing the potential traffic impacts to that neighborhood: 1. Disconnecting the internal road that leads from County Road D to the northeastern portion of the site. 2. Moving the proposed County Road D access to the west (preferably to the west end of the proposed parking lot) so it does not directly line up with Wheeler Avenue. 3. If the access remains at its current proposed location, consider design alternatives for the proposed County Road D access that would discourage traffic exiting the Presbyterian Homes site from using Wheeler to access Lydia Avenue. Prior to approving this new access as a part of the project, the Roseville City Council respectfully requests that a traffic study of this proposed new ingress /egress to the Presbyterian Homes property be conducted. We would like to know more about how this connection will impact the Roseville neighborhood to the south. This can be accomplished through the development of a traffic model to provide more information about the routes vehicles will take to leave and enter the site. We are interested in finding out how many vehicles will be using Wheeler Ave., Shorewood Lane or Shorewood 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, Minnesota 55113 651- 792 -ROSE TDD 651- 792 -7399 wwvv.ci.roseville.mn.us Recycled paper 30 °i° post- consumer content