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Febr uiilry 21, 1996 ..-- /!I -___, -----,----1Iw./' j ~-&.._----~ ; ----I City of Roseville Civic Drive Roseville, MN 55113 TodC:IY, I recei \led a not. ice from Vat.h Fuel ~( Oi I t.hclt the,' arE' proposing to build a gas station/convenience store on the sout.heast 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 mall s c.~nd don. t. need mor.~.:.~y sp,;c.ce. Secor,d, thet-.E' r-E,C:E"t,tly Wi.'I5:,.:1 con\lenienc:e st.C:1r-e or., t.he southwest corner of that inter-section and it tailed. We alr-eady have a lar-ge (30 pump) gas station/convenience store just a half mile north of there on County Road Band Lexington. In addition, we have a gas station and three strip malls just a half mile south of there on Larpenteur and Lexington (all with empty spaces). Third, ttlere recently was a gas station on the nqrthwest cor-ner of the intersection 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 B 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 sellinq 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 pr-operty on the northside of Roselawn 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 he 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 pr-oper-ty and raises it on the residenti~l property. The home owner pays more pr-operty taxes and has less to spend in the overly abundant st.ores, so more stores lose money and we go around again. Everyone would be better e::,ff if wE' put. LIP low tCI medi urn CC)S;t apclr.tmE'nts i nstE'c.{d cll.ld attracted more people to the area to spend money in the ste:,rE's.