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ROSEVILLE PLANNING COMMISSION Feb. 12, 1992 We would like to respond to the Planning Report. not available to us until yesterday. The ¡"'eport. was We have questions and concerns about. the Development Analysis on "~ page '':;'. The goal of encouraging opport.unities for a balanced popula- tion with respect. t.o age and economic composition is a good one. However we feel there is a mixed age composition in the area already. We don't know whether t.he writ.er of the report looked at demographic data or assumed that people who live in t.he 360 units in t.he apartments are all young and the people living along Woodbridge and C-2 are empty nesters (a stereotypic description sometimes used for Roseville horneowner"s) . In actuality apartment dwellers can be any age and the people along C-2 and Woodbridge are composed of couples with no children, families with school age children and empty nesters. We feel the age goal is being maintained. The first policy stat.ement about. innovative planning and design is a curious one for t.his proposal. What is innovative about a row of single family homes? The second policy statement about. innovat.ive development and more efficient. densities raises the need for a definition of the term "efficient densities". IÞJe feel t.hat the 360 unit.s on the apart- ment. site is dense enough already. The first paragraph on page 4 under Proposed Projects appears again t.o have been written by drawing conclusions, this time from old information---information from 21 years ago. Of course t.he people living on Woodbridge and C-2 in 1968 would rather have had 24 houses across the st.reet than 4 three-floor apart.ment.s wit.h 360 units. But we got the apartments. To con- clude that the neighborhood then or the neighbors now would like t.o also add houses borders on ludicrous. Building single family homes will not hide the apartment.s from view. What it will do is destroy the open space between the neighborhood and the apartments---our visual green space. The concerns raised in the second paragraph are good in general. However, when applied specifically to this rezoning request, appear mfJot. There are few children in the apartments that need access for bicycles from the apartments to the neighborhood to the west. Central Park School reports 5 students coming from the apartments. When t.hey wish to go to friend's homes, they can use the same paths currently used by people going east. :I.