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Page 1 of 1 \ \ 11. \, \ i j i\pcA\/ln 'DOiGno 0 { . 17 \-, clj Deb Bloom From: WROY JOHN@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11 :07 AM To: Deb Bloom Subject: Neighborhood 10: Street Reconstruction I am the owner of the property at 31 04 Ridgewoocb Road and will not be attending the meeting on January 29 because of health reasons. I am against your spending this kind of money on this little non through traffic neighborhood, when all that is needed is to merely resurface the existing streets. To do half the block that I live on, while the half of the block, which is in Arden Hills, remains as is, does not make any sense at all. Some of the homeowners would end up having a curb on half of the front of their property and the other half of the front of their property (that which lies in Arden Hills) would have none. To do this kind of work on the street would not only make their property look ridiculous but would lower the value of their property and the whole neighborhood. Based on how this proposed project was done in other areas of Roseville, it will last all summer long and create extreme amounts of dirt, noise, traffic, and other problems for everyone in the neighborhood. Then, if and when, Arden Hills decides to do something like this, we will have to go through it all again for another entire summer. If the City of Roseville is determined to waste the taxpayers money on this needless project, the Roseville City Council should at least respect the wishes of the neighborhood residents, who they are supposed to represent, and at least wait until Arden Hills decides what it wants to do with their half of our block, and the other blocks in the neighborhood, so we won't. have to suffer again through this dirt, noise, inconvenience and other problems that this project will bring to us all summer long. As to the curb you want to install, I would like to point out to you the following. In addition to the fact the we already have black top curbs, there is another problem with the idea of installing the cement curbs you want. Ten years ago when they first started talking about this project, the city of Roseville surveyed the center line of the streets. The surveyed centerline of the street in the block of Ridgewood Road fronting my house was well to the east of the center of the existing street as the street is now laid out. When measuring the 16 feet to the east of their surveyed centerline for installing the curb, there was not enough room to put in the curb on the East side of Ridgewood Road in our block without removing all of the very old trees that line the East side of Ridgewood Road. That is based on the City of Roseville's owr survey as then marked on the street by the City of Roseville. I don't know about the other blocks in the neighborhood, b~ I would expect that the same problem would exist there too. To narrow the street to allow for this does not make any sense, when two houses away where Arden Hills starts, the street would be the same width with as it now is. That would mean the some people (where their property is both in Roseville and Arden Hills) would not only have a curb on half of the front of their property, but would have two different widths of street in front of their house. There was also other reasons mentioned to me by the Roseville government people at the meeting at that time why it would not work to change the width of a street in the middle of a block, such as the snowplows hitting the curb where the change occurs as well as other numerous problems that mid block road width changes cause. When Councilmen Schroeder first ran for election, he came to my house campaigning, and I showed him the street and what the City of Roseville wanted to do with our quiet neighborhood street. He said that he did not think that we needed cement curbs as we already had blacktop curbs, and that all that was needed was to merely resurface the street with blacktop. He was right. W. Roy Johnson 1/29/2007