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February 21, 1996 City of Roseville Civic Drive Roseville, MN 55113 t__ ~. .._.. .j '_I -----1<..:../ i --~..------------ : ----- -.J Today, I received a notice from Kath Fuel & Oil that they are proposing to build a gas station/convenience store on the southeast corner of Lexington & Roselawn Avenues. I want to say that I am opposed to such a building on that corner. My reasons are: First, the entire metropolitan area is already over built commercially. We already have brand new empty commercial buildings in Roseville and empty spaces in the Roseville m<.d 1 5 c.~nd don't. need morg..~y spiOl,ce. / ~. Spcond, tt",et-'e rE'ce1':',t.1 y wC:'\S', c\ cCH"I\/eni erlCE? st.or-e or', t.I-H2 southwest corner of that intersection and it failed. We already have a large (30 pump) gas stat.ion/convenience store just a half mile north of there on County Road 8 and Lexingt.on. In addit.ion, we have a gas station and three strip malls just a half mile south of there on Larpenteur and Lexingt.on (all with empty spaces). Third, there recently was a gas station on the nqrthwest corner of the int.ersection and it failed. One of t.he gas stations on the corner of Hamline and County Road B recently failed. The gas station on the southeast corner of County Road 8 and Lexington has been struggling and has recently changed ownership. Ace's 66 gas station that is there now is struggling to survive with much higher gasoline prices than the other gas stations in the area. The service area is carrying the station. If the station was only sellino gasoline, it would have been gone a long time ago. Fourth, the city is already adding more traffic to the area by the changing of the property on the northside of Rosel awn Avenue, just crossed the street, to the planned multiple dwellings. Fifth, every time some developer decides to build a commercial building on speculation and finds ~e can't make a profit, he cries to city hall that his taxes are too high. Immediately some soft headed bureaucrat lowers the taxes on the commercial property and raises it on the residential property. The home owner pays more property taxes and has less to spend in the overly abundant. stores, so more stores lose money and we go around again. Everyone would be better off if we put up low to medium cost apartments instead and attracted more people to the area to spend money in the st.ores.;.