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--. � drink. If the pests aren't already present, adding 16 garden plots on NCPC property certainly isn't going to cause them to appear. Regarding rancid odors�xperienced gardeners know how to properly manage a compost pile so there are no rancid odors. There is a large compost pile just one block away at Greenhouse Village. Many of the residents in the area have compost piles. This just isn't going to be a problem. (We do not plan to have a compost pile in the first year of operation). Regarding vandalisrr�yes, the garden may be vandalized. NCPC has maintained flower gardens along Larpenteur Avenue for years. Kids have driven bicycles right through the flower beds just for the heck of it. So, should we turn our flower beds back to grass? We fully expect there will be some incidents of kids messing with the gardens. ThaYs a risk we are willing to take—iYs a problem that all community gardens have to deal with. Roseville already has a community garden—you can judge from your own experience how serious an issue this and all the other nuisance issues really are. We have a hard time believing that adding 15-18 garden plots is going to increase crime in our immediate neighborhood. We will be very disappointed if the City of Roseville concludes that a conditional use permit is required. This would cause at least a one-year delay in our implementation and a great disappointment to those of our Roseville (and surrounding communities) neighbors who are counting on this new community garden. We have enclosed the communiry garden resources that have been used, planning documents for the NCPC Community Garden, entitled Planting Seeds of Hope Community Garden, and list of interested gardeners for your convenience. Thank you for this opportunity to provide this additional information. RespectFully Yours, /��f �� Kimberley M. Spear Planning Group Coordinator Planting Seeds of Hope Community Garden North Como Presbyterian Church CC: Earl Hoekman, Corporation Committee Chair, NCPC