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CENTRE POINTE BUSINESS PARK 3520 Multifoods Tower 33 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (612) 339-1900 ~""lJUf ~WI I:>. Wel' +z, 1(o;,ecJ; /J~ pC. ~8,114{' r.e,.. RwfAI1" J14tJ~sr vtllVIMUGt May 8, 1996 Mr. Keith Wietecki Chainnan-Planning Commission City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 RE: Planning Commission Meeting, May 8, 1996 Planning File # 2824 Ryan Construction Company of Minnesota, Inc. Dear Chainnan Wietecki and Members of the Planning Commission: We are writing on behalf of Centre Pointe Business Park in response to the Notice of Public Hearing regarding the Midwest Motor Express site. Having only received the staff report for this project on Monday, we have not had an opportunity for our consultants to study the materials. However, in reviewing the materials submitted and other items received from the City, it appears that there are a significant number of material, unanswered questions with respect to the Midwest site and the overall Twin Lakes project development plan which need substantially more research before a decision can or should be made for any development at Midwest Motor Express or other remaining sites to be redeveloped in Twin Lakes. As you may know, Centre Pointe was a previously blighted redevelopment area which is the first multi-phased and initially the largest (60 acres) redevelopment project in Roseville. It originally consisted of 24 home sites, the Garrett Motor Freight trucking tenninal, a gas station, and other parcels. Some the parcels were polluted, many were blighted, and were the source of a variety of nuisances to the City. When we undertook the process, the City requested that all of the properties be acquired at once. Due to the acreage involved with our proposed development, extensive environmental feasibility studies were undertaken related to the impact of the overall development on other area property owners. These included the completion of environmental assessment worksheets, including extensive air quality, noise, traffic studies and analysis and Rice Creek Watershed District, MnDot, Ramsey County, and Environmental Quality Board (Indirect Source Pennit) approvals were sought and obtained for the entire project. As the City proceeded to explore the development of Twin Lakes in 1988, a study was undertaken on behalf of various Twin Lakes property owners by Northwest Associated Consultants, Inc. (Northwest). On June 22, 1988, Northwest issued a report (copy attached) outlining a variety of material issues with respect to the then conceived concept for the Twin Lakes development including, but not limited to, the exact nature and timing of the development plan and the multitude of issues conceming its financial feasibility and the impact on the area property owners. While some of the market conditions referred to in the report have changed since the date of the report, as the ninth largest property taxpayer in the City and a major adjacent property owner, we are unaware of, nor have we been notified of any public hearings and conclusive studies which have been undertaken resolving these important issues, nor the existence of any detailed site development plans have been submitted by a developer or the City committing to a definitive development site plan for the 200+ acres. In addition to such plans, we believe the under1ying assumptions associated therewith need to be clear1y spelled ~