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11/1/11 Attachment D To: Bryan Lloyd, Associate City Planner for Roseville, MN RE: Comments for consideration regarding MN State Fair renewal for temporary park and ride facility at St Rose of Lima as an Interim Use From: Sarah Shroyer, 1283 Eldridge Ave W As we spoke about on the phone today, I have some concerns about how the St Rose of Lima site functions as a MN State Fair park and ride location. I still support the use of the site as a park& ride, but do hope some changes could be made to improve the quality of life for residents during the fair in the immediately surrounding area of the church and parking lot area, especially when considering the volume of fair goers that use this site and the adjacent streets each year. Also see the map on the last page as a visual of what I am describing. Three years of watching how St Rose of Lima MN state fair park& ride functions: • We have lived at 1283 Eldridge Ave at the corner of Eldridge and Dellwood since October 2008 and have been there for three park& ride fair periods at St Rose of Lima. The 2011 fair park& ride period was more challenging than the two years prior, as it seemed to encompass a larger number of small problems that seemed to add up. Signage on Hamline routes car traffic down our block of Eldridge: • A concern is the routing of the car traffic off Hamline down Eldridge Ave to turn right to enter parking on Dellwood, the park& ride entrance. There is a sort of"turn here" sign at the corner of Hamline and Eldridge that says "enter on Dellwood" which directs people to turn down Eldridge to get to Dellwood.Then there is another"turn here" sign at the corner of Eldridge and Dellwood with an arrow to direct them to turn right at Dellwood to then turn right to enter parking there. This leads to several hundred or more cars per day going up and down Eldridge between Hamline and Dellwood to turn onto Dellwood to enter and leave the parking lot. • The way fair goers get to the park& ride entrance from Hamline seems to be setup to direct them to go down our block of Eldridge to get to Dellwood to turn right and then enter the parking-and this has sort of bottlenecked the car traffic on to our block of Eldridge, as well as the pedestrian traffic when the parking lot is full, as the immediate street parking easiest to access that is still allowed during this time starts at Dellwood and Eldridge. Suggestions: What about "turn here" signs more fairly placed to distribute cars on Hamline down Skillman in addition to Eldridge? Or perhaps into the church parking off Hamline and through their lot to park behind the church and school? Or perhaps park& ride directional signs encouraging entrance from County Rd B or Lexington or Roselawn? What about an entrance to the park& ride off Hamline? Or at least letting them leave from that direction at night? Keeping the two entrances blocked to the church lot off our block of Eldridge is appreciated, so please do keep those closed since it is houses across from those two lot entrances and cars leaving there shine head lights into houses at night. Signage mishaps during the 2011 state fair: • During the 2011 fair the "turn here" sign on the corner of Dellwood and Eldridge was sometimes not propped up, as it is a heavy big wood "V" style sign, so it would tip over or blow over it seems. When it was down this would lead to people doing U turns in the intersection, or using driveways to turn around, as they were not sure where to enter to park. • Also the "no state fair parking" sign on the north side of Eldridge directly across from our house seemed to keep falling down or was sometimes moved away and laying on the grass way over by the church entrance, I kept trying to hit it with a hammer back in its hole, but it kept falling down. Suggestions: What about considering having church volunteers to check signs are still in place for where to turn or not to park? The heavy"V" style sign needs to be propped up every morning right away(not just leaned on the tree there which makes it unreadable when driving down Eldridge from Hamline) and checked throughout the day to be sure it is still propped up, or they need to get multiple directional arrow signs to point to turn right on to Dellwood that stake in the ground that cannot fall over and can be seen easily from all streets feeding that intersection, but especially so Page 1 of 8