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August 15, 1991 Rick Jopke Planning and Zoning Administrator City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 RE: Bob and Peggy Slater's request for rezoning at the Lake Owasso Marina As the City staff and Council Members consider the request for rezoning of the Lake Owasso Marina, I would like to provide some comments and considerations. Eleanor Gillespie is the owner of the lot directly north of the marina. Eleanor lives at 2800 Lakeview Avenue and has been a resident of Roseville since 1957. I am her son-in-law and have been helping her on this project. As most of you are aware, we were involved in a legal process regarding the City's denial of variances for our Owasso lot. The Court determined that since Eleanor had owned the lot since 1966, it was grandfathered in as a buildable lot both under State law and the Roseville City Ordinance. We regret that the proceedings had to conclude in a legal action, however, we had worked with the City staff and Council for over 2 1/2 years without any resolution. Since receiving variances in October 1990, the lot has been listed for sale with Burnet Realty. Of the inquiries we have had, several have expressed concern that the marina operations were located adjacent to our lot. Since I was aware that the marina had just recently purchased their northern lot, and that it was zoned residential, I called the City staff and asked that they enforce the zoning ordinances. This eventually resulted in the Slater's request for rezoning. In your consideration of the rezoning request, I would like to mention the following items: The marina is a long-time business of Roseville, however, their north lot was not purchased until 1985. When I talked to Mr. Robbins (the owner of the. marina prior to the Slaters) in 19S5"about purchasing Eleanor's lot, he said thát he was aware that his north lot was zoned residential, but that he wanted it as a bùffer to the residential area to the north. A mistake was made in the Slater's purchase of the marina in that they were told that the north lot was approved for marina operations. I have suggested to the Slaters that they talk to Mr. Robbins about how the actual zoning differed from what was represented in the purchase agreement between the Slaters and Robbins, but the Slaters responded that they did not want to pursue that. The realtor from Burnet has estimated that our lot value would be reduced by somewhere around $20,000 if the zoning is changed. Although the exact amount is impossible to determine, the amount would be significant.