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If you look at it, it is easy to see that something odd happened when they added some patches of parking on the south side, when they have a large lot on the north side. This is the city's chance to move forward the development of the intersection, bringing the property into compliance and taking Autumn Street out of play. As you say in your review document, ideally this would be done in concert with the building to the North (1110 Roselawn), which tends to suggests that you would contemplate that all traffic in this business district should come from Lexington and Roselawn only (as with the large PUD across the street). I apologize if I went on a bit on the phone--you gave every appearance of being very good at listening to concerned neighbors, so thank you. I would much prefer that this get resolvd satisfactorily at an early stage. In the neighborhood many would be happy if there were a coffee shop or deli of a Class I Restaurant nature. But a B-lb zone includes so much more (including Class II Fast Food with Drive Through by a CUP) that would be inappropriate for this border property, we may have to oppose the rezoning to prevent the more damaging possibilities that may emerge if this business fails. As residents, we must play for the long-term result that can happen if the camel's nose allows a change to Bl-B. If the city takes Autumn Street and the south side lot, with its haphazard "parking lot", completely out of play for the future--screening the property and making all traffic to the business use Lexington as its address and primary, large parking lot anticipates, then I think our opposition will melt away. Thanks for your time working on this matter. yours, Patrick Dr. Patrick Schmidt Department of Political Science Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 USA tel: 651.696.6147, fax: 651.696.6758 schmidtp at macalester.edu 2 � �