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I will be attending the Planning Commission meeting this evening, but I wanted to get a few quick thoughts down in writing. I live at 203 Wewers Road, just down the street from the property that may be rezoned. I oppose the rezoning to General Business District. The street that my wife and I chose to live on is a quite street with minimal vehicular traffic. With the park across the street, my wife and I thought it was a perfect place to raise a family. Now that our son is 4, we find out that this property is being rezoned for business. We have looked at the list of possible business types that could occupy this property in the future, and it seems it could be just about anything. Some of our concerns are as follows: • Increased traffic on our street, and the associated dangers; • Increased parking on our street. Driving down the street is already a tight squeeze if there are vehicles parked on both sides; • Increased noise, especially if the business has a drive-thru; • Access to Wewers Road from Rice Street, which is already difficult. The business will cause the volume of traffic using the turn lane to increase; • Access to the future business from Wewers Road, which could be a dangerous situation; • Increased storm water runoff volume from the developed property, which will enter the storm sewer and flow to the west down Wewers Road. Storm water already ponds in the street around the storm sewer inlets. (Although, I believe this is from a streeUgutter grading issue, not a surcharge from the sewer); • The property will be developed, then possibly sit vacant. As you drive on Rice Street, there are empty office buildings and strip malls everywhere. If another office type building is constructed, what makes you think it will be occupied? From what we understand, this property is being re-zoned to comply with the Roseville Comprehensive Land Use Plan. We have several questions concerning the plan: Is this plan a City plan, or has it been approved by the State? Is the State requiring the City to comply with the plan by a certain date? Is there any chance that the property could stay zoned residential and remain as-is? Is there any business that has seriously shown interest in developing the property? Those are our quick initial thoughts. I look forward to the meeting this evening. Sincerely, Gary & Lisa Wolf 203 Wewers Road 651-765-6460 —� —.