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-� 0 �AST - FOES OFAUTUMN STREET TRAFFIC 5 December 2007 City of Roseville Planning Commission 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Re: Planning File 07-069 Dear Planning Commission members, We read with great interest the recent application by Michael Schueller (in cooperation with Riaz and Catherine Hussain) for a rezoning and conditional use permit for the property at 1901 Lexington Avenue. We are writing now to express our concerns with this proposal and hope that a suitable compromise can be reached in the early planning stages. Autumn Street is one of the most wonderful streets in the city. It features a mix of original residents, professional individuals and couples, and families. Indeed, there are no fewer than twenty-five children living on Autumn Street. From spring to autumn, the extremely low traffic allows the street to host nightly bike rallies, ball games, street hockey, and more. The unanimous view of the residents is that we are very fortunate to have what we have in Autumn Street and want no diminution of what we enjoy. We are not insensitive to the needs of the property owner at 1901 Lexington. We enjoy the multi-use district at Lexington and Roselawn and the various "destination" businesses that the City has found fit to allow to locate there. These include a hardware store, a realtor, professional offices, and most recently a bookstore. The residents of Autumn Street are among the most frequent and loyal patrons of these businesses. We are not unappreciative of their role in our community and we are not viscerally opposed to the harmonious development of this intersection's vitality. However, across the entire neighbarhood, from Democrats to Republicans, there is one unanimous concern• the use of the south side of the building at 1901 Lexin�ton and any attempt intended or unintended to intensifv the use of the Autumn Street, an R-1 residential street as a route for automobile traffic to the business located there. We are focused especially on the two patches of asphalt on the south side that form a small parking area, which, if ever in compliance with city code, is not a necessary part of the business in any way and represents the potential for a serious invasion of the quiet