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Roger Kolstad, Rosedale Bstates Case No. 2426 Page 4 The R-7 Apartment Park District allows dwelling structures of three or more units with no height limit, but with much lower allowable density than in the city's highest density district, the R-3 District. The B-2 Retail Business District allows a wide variety of retail, commercial, and office uses. ProDosed Project The concept of ~e proposed Rosedale Estates PUD is very simple: create a row of new single family lots in the R-1 buffer area. Each of ~e 24 proposed lots meet the minimum standards in the Code. It is clear that ~e neighbors in 1968 would have preferred a single family neighborhood across the street, instead of an apartment project, and so we might assume ~at the proposed PUD is in keeping wi~ ~e spirit of ~e previous approval. But ~e proposed project would create a se~ of conditions that we believe should be addressed. When new homes are built on these lots ~ere would be a barrier, consisting of new homes and possibly fences, between ~he apartments and the neighborhoods to the west and north across Woodbridge and C-2. This might be a benefit from a visual aes~etics standpoint, but it would also sever any direct physical connections between the two. We believe this should not happen for two reasons: 1) Children in ~e apartments (and adults for that matter) would find it difficult to walk or ride bikes to friends' homes west of Woodbridge, and vice versa. We believe this kind of interaction should be encouraged, not prevented. 2) Access to the convenience store would be much more difficult, causing frustration for patrons walking from ~e west and a potential loss of business for the store. The connect:-ion that exists now, is evidenced by a well-worn path across the berm from Woodbridge into the convenience store. We have asked the developer, ~erefore, to continue and encourage this connection by providing two 20-foot-wide trail access easements from Woodbridge street into the apartment area. These would be for pedestrians and bicycles only. One is lined up with Iona Lane at ~e sou~ end, ~e other is located near the north end of the block. The new home lots on either side of these easements are platted wider than the other lots, 90 feet vs. 85 feet, to allow for greater buffering to the easement.