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Members of the city council, I believe that more study is needed before you allow 01' Mexico to expand their dining facilities. My reasons for this are as follows: 1. Patrons of 01' Mexico already use the dentist office parking. 01' Mexico may have entered into some sort of formal agreement with the property owners, but since the parking spaces are already being used no real additional parking spaces are being realized there. Also, there is no paperwork in the application regarding an "agreement" between the business owners. There is currently a sign that prohibits all 01 Mexico patrons from parking in this lot. 2. Some employees park behind the building in the alley. There are signs posted in the alley listing this as a fire lane. Though 01' Mexico did not state this on their application, I will assume these employees will now be parking in some of these newly created parking spaces, thus complying with the posted no parking signs in the alley which will leave less of the "newly created parking spaces" for their patrons. 3.01' Mexico states in their application that they have secured an additional parking in the strip mall on the west side of Lexington Avenue. Again, there is no paperwork in the application regarding any "agreements." If they are going to have this additional parking, then there should be a pedestrian walkway as well as a traffic control signal at Lexington and Roma ave to keep the pedestrians safe. This would get into an entirely new issue on who would pay for the installation of these necessities, 01 Mexico or the residents of Roseville. There are two other issues regarding 01 Mexico that need to be addressed. 4. There are lights that have been recently installed on the East side/alley side wall that are no longer the soft yellow florescent lighting, they are the high pressure bright lights that may be good for lighting up the alley, but the light is TOO bright for the neighbors that have to be exposed to it from sunset to dawn. A solution to this would be to return to the soft yellow lighting or install "wall pack" lights that would just light up the alley area and not any adjoining yards. 5 .01 Mexico has consistently been dumping their glass bottles for recycling in the early hours of the morning. We have spoken to Greg Pavlick on two occasions about delaying the time of dumping these bottles to 7:00 am or later. He has made efforts to delay it, but in time they begin "dumping" them before 6:30 am. In closing, I want the city council to carefully weigh the options it has on this issue. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Matt Richards