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From: Lori Anderson Sent: Fri 1/20/2006 10:47 PM To: Cathy Bennett Cc: Craig Klausing; Amy Ihlan; Tom Kough; Dean Maschka; Tammy Pust; Neal Beets Subject: Rental Licensing Ordinance Good Evening, My family and I have resided at 1449 Brenner Avenue for the past thirteen years. I attended the HRA meeting at Roseville City Hall on 1/17/06 to learn more about the proposed Rental Licensing Ordinance. To say I was shocked by the number of non- resident landlords in attendance at this meeting is an understatement. The audience didn't learn why the number of non-resident landlords outnumbered the resident homeowners until the last moments of the meeting. The landlords were sent personal notices of the meeting while homeowners of Roseville were expected to learn of the meeting via a short article in the Roseville Newsletter. Hardly fair. The perception at the meeting was that the landlords are more passionate or care more about their cause than the homeowners do. Believe me, homeowners care and are very passionate about their residences within the City of Roseville. In the future, if notices are sent to the landlords, please send notices to all of the homeowners too. My wife and I have been the co-captains of our Neighborhood Watch Program for 10 of the 13 years we have lived here. We can tell you the names and ages of the children that live in our neighborhood, the occupations of the parents, the churches they attend, etc. This didn't happen overnight. It took time and energy, but is well worth it. It's not nosy, it's neighborly -- a healthy bi-product of longer-term home ownership (vs. shorter-term rentals). To say no altogether to non-resident landlords is too late. We have two group homes and a Northwestern College "dormitory" single family home all within two blocks of our home. And so as I said at the meeting, 1 believe you need to take the ordiance further by using it to limit the number of non- resident landlords in Roseville. Enough is enough. These landloards are not Santa Claus. They are shrewd businesspeople who are in it for reason-financial reward, not community building. I applaud your efforts to bring this Rental Licensing Ordinance to fruition. All of our surrounding communities have rental ordinances. If Roseville doesn't enact an ordinance soon, we will have a inordinate amount of renters living here because there are no rules that the landlords have to follow. If this happens, the For Sale sign will go up on my home before the value drops significantly. We have fully remodeled both the main bathroom and the kitchen, and had the yard professionally landscaped. We are the kind of people you don't want to lose as it seems one of your missions is to maintain and improve the aging housing stock of Roseville. Warren Anderson and Family.