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Page 2 of 4 <br />The council is also being asked to consider: <br />The proposed redevelopment plan (which includes a Costco as part of 330,000 <br />square feet of retail development at the corner of Cleveland and County Road C) <br />The proposed public financing plan (the developers are requesting $47 million in <br />tax increment financing and other subsidies) <br />Use of eminent domain <br />The proposed moratorium, which allows only the current development team to go <br />forward with their proposal, while blocking all other property owners from taking <br />any action to improve their properties. <br />Please contact your city council members (e-mail addresses and phone numbers also <br />available at www.cityofrosev__i.llecom) and/or attend the meeting to express your <br />opinions and concerns. <br />Also for your information -- attached below is an editorial from today's StarTribune, on <br />the need for vigilance and grass-roots action to protect our neighborhoods. <br />Amy <br />John Fox: Be well, lovely neighborhood <br />John Fox <br />Published August 7, 2004 <br />Next month my family and I will say farewell to the village we've happily called home for <br />the past four years. <br />When we pack up our purple Saturn wagon and strike off for a much smaller village <br />1,200 miles away in Vermont, we'll pass homes filled with friends and playmates, baby <br />sitters and house sitters, dogs and cats we call by name. We'll pass the park where our <br />kids mastered the monkey bars and the community school where my daughter learned <br />to read. We'll pass the lively coffeehouse that served as my second office and cheerful <br />refuge for the three tough months I was stuck between jobs. <br />We'll pass neighborhood block parties, lemonade stands in the shade of grand oak <br />trees, kids on scooters and bikes strewn across sidewalks -- all telltale signs of a safe, <br />healthy community. And the very things, both tangible and intangible, that have made <br />this Fulton neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis feel more like a friendly village than <br />a bustling metropolis. <br />You might reasonably wonder, as many friends have, why we'd ever think to leave such <br />an idyllic setting. Our main reason is basic: to be closer to our families and our East <br />Coast roots. Over the years, life in our close-knit neighborhood has underscored for us <br />the importance of family and has fueled a desire to be closer to ours. <br />Our other reason for moving is work-related. I've taken a job with aVermont-based <br />nonprofit foundation that's committed to protecting and promoting socially and <br />environmentally sustainable communities -- communities, ironically, much like the one <br />I'm leaving behind. The Orton Family Foundation works to empower communities to <br />8/9/2004 <br />