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� � FAST - FOES OF A UTUMN STREET TRAI�I�IC 14 January 2008 City of Roseville City Council 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Re: Planning File 07-069 Dear City Council Members, I write to express the concern of many residents near to the property at 1901 Lexington Avenue, and we ask for your close consideration of the proposal by Michael Schueller (in cooperation with Riaz and Catherine Hussain) to rezone the property and grant a conditional use permit. The property is an uncommon one. For a variety of reasons, including its past conditional use as well as its location at the extremity of the Lexington-Roselawn business intersection, this property sits very exposed to the residential neighborhood abutting and directly across the street from it. If you do not know it, we are happy to tell you that 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 autiunn, 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. In this letter, I will review the consideration given to this proposal by the City's Planning Commission and will present the concerns of many residents in the near vicinity of the property. Summary As an overview, I offer three observations. ➢ I commend the work of City planning staff inember Bryan Lloyd, whose investigation identified a past Conditional Use Permit for the irregular parking spaces on the south side of the property, and we whole-heartedly endorse the suggestion at the Planning Commission meeting that the enforcement of the now-expired permit should include, not on�y the removal of those patches of pavement, but a more thorough-going landscaping plan that adequately separates this property from the neighboring residential zone.