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. � Pay�e 1 of 2 Dan Boerigter From: rick.jolley@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2D07 1:09 PM To: planning.commission@ci.roseville.mn.us Cc: sangwon@umn.edu Subject: Proposed United Properties Development, Cleveland Avenue Property Dear Planning Commission Staff: One of us, Rick Jolley, is a current owner, along with his wife, of the property at 1990 Brenner Avenue in Roseville, although recently they moved from this location to Shoreview and are currently working to sell our Brenner home. As Rick will not be able to attend the June 6�' Planning Commission meeting, he is writing to provide comments and concerns regarding United Properties plans for constructing a senior high rise development and park access road to Langton Lake Park on the Cleveland Avenue property south of Brenner Avenue. The other signer of this letter, Sangwon Suh is the current owner and resident of the property at 1960 Brenner Avenue in Roseville. United Properties have met once with residents from Brenner Avenue and a second time with a much smaller group of residents to discuss proposed plans. The plans submitted to the Planning Commission for public comment are very similar to one of the plans discussed with the residents during a February 15�' meeting held at the city offices in that it includes, along the north edge of the redevelopment, an access road from Cleveland Avenue to the current Langton Lake Park parking lot. We recognize that this property's designation on the Roseville Comprehensive Plan is broad enough to include the development of a senior housing complex. The current plan; however; does not provide a sufficiently appropriate transition and buffer between the residential homes along Brenner Avenue and the a) proposed park access road, and b) the 4-story high rise senior housing development. We are concerned that if the road is constructed as planned will result in increased noise and loss of privacy to the residents to the north. The proposed road will transport visitors to the Langton Lake Park athletic fields primarily, which from early spring well into the fall hosts numerous games each evening. Based on wheri these games are over this road will likely have considerable traffic durin g the evening hours. The access road to the park, We understand was requested by the Park Board because such a road was on a 1986 Langton Lake Park plan. Although one of us lived at Brenner Avenue almost 17 years, we had not heard of nor seen this plan prior to this year. I understand that this park access road is also not included on Roseville's Comprehensive Plan. The traffic evaluation provided by the city also seemed to only address the concern that the city would have for the increased traffic along the already busy Cleveland Avenue but does not address the traffic flow and increase in noise that could result from this street to the adjacent neighborhood. We urge the Planning Commission to reconsider the appropriateness of a park access road but if it is constructed to consider moving it farther to the south, away from the residential homes. If a park access road is constructed along the northern part of this development, the city should require United Properties to work with the residents and property owners in the neighborhood to ensure that appropriate vegetative buffers and topographic buffers (i.e. berming of sufficient height) is constructed to minimize impacts to the residents. 6/6/2007