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4 <br />Via Facsimile (4:9iO-2931:) <br />and Regu;lar Mail <br />Steve Sarkozy <br />anager <br />CITY OF ROSEVILLE <br />i r! Drive <br />2660 Clivic Cente <br />R03eVi I le r IVIN 55 11; 3 <br />"' MEMBER OF'7HIr EVEREST CROLP LTD <br />W1 <br />S5 51? P021 OCT 20 97 1 <br />As: we indicated In our; recent meetings W*th you and Dennis WeIsch., The EvereN <br />pursuing a significant office redevelopment project, on the <br />Group, Ltd.:, is; intereisted i <br />east side of Harnline Avenue between H:ig:hway 36 and the RoSeville Library. Th�e <br />subject properties are currently occupied by fli�ve detached resgidentloal rental <br />tes,: ge <br />propert"I ne;r;ally buiilt in the late 194O"s, and the Brown-Wilbert, Inc. *ndustrial vault <br />lant, built in; 1943. An office redevelopment project on this property would Present the <br />p <br />-famfly! <br />:vy ind <br />opportunifty to r;e:placle a spiot-zoned" heai ustrial use ard obsolete single I <br />pr ate transitional u�roe <br />residefitiall uses *th an off ice use which would serve as an appro I <br />between the: heavily commercial area west of Hamline Avenue and the residentiall. <br />01e: Ighbi orhood to thie east.; <br />We agree VA'thi: the suggestion you made at our meeting on October 7 that "it VMuld be <br />redevelopment of' the <br />appropriate for the Ciity to review the potent"al for reu�se and <br />subject: propert:ies within the; broader context of the annual Comprehensive Plan u�pdat,e <br />XJ <br />process. The Comprehensive P'l�an currently guides, the e 'sting residential parcels, for <br />We believe a <br />"Medium Densly residential u�ses, and the Vault plant as "Industrial". <br />P W <br />*1' to, support, redevelopment fof <br />Businet <br />Comprehensive lan; amendment to "Limi <br />on:ice uses,, is appropriate. <br />ty <br />A review of the Cityps: planning files dating back to muld reveal th�at th�en C�i <br />:iowa <br />consuil:tanti, H' rid Dah1gren concluded that office was an apipropri�a�te, use for <br />planni <br />West <br />this prOperty and an appropriate transition between the commercial area to the <br />and thi:e residential area to the east. Mr. Dah1gren repeatedly noted that the rear <br />e <br />ive <br />(east) boundaries of th subject properties could serve as an apipropriate and effect' <br />line of transition between an: affice, use and the resid�en�tial neighb�orh�o�old to the east, <br />Intial proplefti Which <br />wing to the unusually deep re re de es <br />ar, yards of' the adjoining <br />o, <br />ifr;ont on Dellwood. The Dellwood parcells have depths of up to 3100 feelt. <br />-W ...... ..... ....... ......... ---------- NNNNIMMIN~ <br />ong: Lake Road <br />Suite 330 Ruselville, NIN 55 113 <br />.'612) 636-5500 Fax: -%612) 636-0183 <br />