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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />as <br />houses from dwarfing older homes. Those restrictions have reduced <br />the number of subdivision requests, said Bob Hawbaker, Bloomington's planning <br />manager. <br /> <br />Roseville has at least 100 large lots in the city that potentially could be divided <br />into multiple home sites, said Jamie Radel, a city economic development official. <br /> <br />Roseville City Council Member Amy Ihlan said she wants to slow the pace of <br />subdivision before the city loses all its larger lots, along with its green space and <br />diversity of housing options. <br /> <br />IIPeople will just move to the outer-ring suburbs to get the larger lots," thlan said. <br /> <br />A neighborhood divide <br /> <br />Mueller, who submitted his project before the Roseville moratorium, got <br />preliminary approval and will probably receive final approval soon. <br /> <br />That's bad news for James Kilau, who bought the 2-acre lot next to Mueller's 16 <br />years ago and said the proposed cul-de-sac would "ruin the whole atmosphere" <br />of the neighborhood. <br /> <br />"I came here for the privacy of the whole neighborhood, not just my lot. And I <br />paid a lot of money for that," Kilau said. "It's just a shame. I'll have to move <br />farther out to find something like I have." <br /> <br />But Mueller said that if he didn't divide his lot, the next owner would. "Why not <br />me? Why shouldn't I get the benefit?" he asked. <br /> <br />Mueller, whose father became Roseville's first mayor in 1948 after he and a <br />group of farmers created the village, is proud of the neighborhood with its <br />towering pines and turkeys, ducks, deer and pheasants. <br /> <br />"You would swear you were up north," said Mueller, vvho raised four children <br />there. That probably won't change, he said. <br /> <br />Darrel LeBarron, a neighbor who supports Mueller's project and belongs to the <br />Roseville advisory group that is studying lot subdivisions, said he may <br />eventually want to subdivide his own 2-acre lot. He argues that the <br />neighborhood's ponds and wetlands will naturally protect Acorn Road's <br />ambiance. <br /> <br />"Yau don't build houses on muck," he said. <br /> <br /> <br />a vested interest the outcome of the advisory group's <br />or 11 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />