7A, Presbyterian Homes Redevelopment Proposal

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Meagan Beekman From: holdenbj24 @aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:01 PM To: Meagan Beekman Subject: Fwd: Presbyterian Homes Development Original Message From: Chuck Julie Watkin <watkin1 @q.com> To: sjharpstead@comcast.net; david .grant @ci.arden- hills.mn.us; holdenbj24 @aol.com; FranH116 @aol.com; davemcclung@comcast.net Sent: Mon, Nov 22, 2010 7:20 pm Subject: Presbyterian Homes Development Dear Arden Hills City Council Members: We are 15 -year residents of Roseville on Shorewood Lane who will be adversely impacted in our neighborhood quality of life and property value by the PH Development. We simply request that, at a minimum, the plans be changed to reflect the changes proposed below by those in our neighborhood. In our opinion this does not adversely impact the development but rather would demonstrate collaboration and cooperation by PH and the Arden Hills City Council. This has not existed in the planning process to date. We ask that decisionmakers put themselves in our shoes as impacted homeowners in making their decisions on this development. We don't understand why PH would want to charge ahead with a plan that has such negative implications for homeowners (including safety of children) when reasonable alternatives such as those outlined below are available. We want to work with PH and would like to see that organization and the AH City Council demonstrate the same desire. Thank you. Charles and Julie Watkin 3076 Shorewood Lane 612.709.8192 Proposed Changes to Existing Plan The Wheeler /Shorewood Lane, Shorewood Drive Neighborhood Preservation Coalition proposes the following changes to the Presbyterian Homes PUD. We respectfully request that the Arden Hills City Council approve the following changes to the Presbyterian Homes proposed development. 1. Eliminate the southeast driveway and its exit onto Wheeler /Cty D— This will assure that the additional new traffic from the development is not encouraged to use residential streets but instead follows the site's existing traffic flow pattern. In addition the proposal assures that the employee traffic (approximately 310 daytime workers) will not be using Wheeler /County D as their primary ingress /egress to the property. We hope that this also discourages their trips through the neighborhood. We believe these changes will help minimize the additional new traffic burden on Wheeler St. and Shorewood Lane and Shorewood Drive and help to preserve the residential nature of the neighborhood immediately adjacent to the proposed development. 2. Move the parking lot for the east brownstone building to the north side of the building to preserve greenspace on the south side adjacent to the neighborhood. Add a berm to the south side of the east brownstone with several large pine trees. The driveway for the building should also use the existing driveway onto County D opposite Cox Insurance. This change results in a triple benefit to the proposed project and the adjacent residential neighborhood. a. Residential neighborhood traffic effects are minimized 1