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r- -� �` 1 � 4 � �; June 8, 2007 Roseville City Council City of Roseviile 26�0 Civic Cenfer Dri�e RoseviE[e, MN 55113 RE: 30Q8 and 30'f 0 Clevelar�d Aven�e Narth, Raseville, Nlinnesota Dear Mayor Klausing and Council Members: Ru#h Partridge and her f�mify own the property at 3�08 and 30'f Q Gie�e[ar�d A�enue North in Roseville. In fact, their ownersi�ip of the property goes back to the early part of the last century. They would like to keep the property, but financial circumstances and Ruth's personal situation dictate that the property be sold. Ruth simply cannot maintain the property any longer. With these needs in mind, the famiiy saught to sell ihe property -- not to anyone, but to a responsibfe deveioper with the experience and financiai resources to provide the City an outstanding addition to its housing stoc[c. We were fortunate to find United Properties as a ready, willing and experienced developer to buy the property. United Properties also initialfy offered a developrnent pian that included townhouses that would buffer the property to the north from the cooperative housing building {�roposed for the southerly po�tion of Ruth's pfoperty. As importantly, the townhouse component would allow Ruth to purchase one of the residences, so she couEd live out the rest of her iife on the property where she was born and raised and where she raised her children. At first, townhouse componen# of the project was chalfenged, because #he Park Commissior� �roposed a stree# through the project. Now, ever� the coaperative housing portion of the project is being chailenged on the basis of some weak tes#imony as to the shadow the cooperative building may cast at certain times of the year, when the sun is at its low point irc the sky. We understand a neighbor's concern with a�ew develapment next door_ The #erm "N1MBY" rrvas nat dreamed up yesterday. T�e truth of the matter, however, is that this is a tnoughtful and responsible proposal made by an experienced developer with a goad #rack record before the City. This is a deveEapment that wili pTOVide a gentle buffer to the �ommerciaJ properEies furtF�er to the south. The prop�ry is guidec! for higher c�ensity, and will provide that density next to a wetEand area and ciiy park. What better place to allow this developmenf than a piace where existing amenities can be enjoyed by the older residents of the proposed development. These residen#s may still include the homeowner Ruth Partridge herself, for while the townhouse component no longer 3912 IDS Center, So Soath Eighth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 5�402 "Ielephone: 6�z.34i.9800 Facsimile: bi2.332.i2i� Email: winlaw@popp.net