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.: � • Zip:: 55431 • How would you prefer to be contacted? Remember to fill in the corresponding contact information.: Phone Home Phone Number:: Daytime Phone Number:: 952 820-8725 Email Address:: ahall@uproperties.com Please Share Your Comment, Question or Concern: Dear Council Members, I would like to thank everyone for the time and consideration of our final plat and PUD during last Monday's council meeting. I believe everyone was surprised by the plat timing/expiration issue as I was told that this has never corne up in the past, but am confident that we will be able to get this resolved and build a much needed community that will be a real success for the city. A number of months had gone by since we received approval of the general concept plan last year, and I thought it important to touch on a few points that we had addressed at that time. We had not come prepared on Monday to talk about shadows and visual impacts since we had had those discussions last year and had produced modeling to counter several of the key elements raised in the neighbors presentation. Rather that revisit the issue in detail, I would like to point out the following: The height of the building from ground to the upper edge before the roofline begins to slope toward the peak was misrepresented by almost 20'. This significantly changes the shadow calculations as we demonstrated last year. The solar access is considered "blocked" according to last Monday's presentation when a shadow crosses the property line--not when the shadow actually hits the home. This creates an an exaggerated "blocked" percentage that is not a fair representation of the actual impact. We demonstrated that for the majority of the year, there was no impact. Only in portions of the winter months when the sun is very low on the horizon--early in the morning, are there impacts and this assumes that the trees to the south are not there which by themselves block or at least significantly filter the light. This is not the time of year when people are outside for hours and the winter sun does not produce enough radiation to stimulate the vitamin D production referenced in the presentation. This info is readily available on the internet. The presentation ignored the shadow impacts of their homes on their neighbors. No z