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Mendota Homes, Inc. P.O. Box 416 Forest Lake, MN 55025 November 11, 1997 City of RoseviIle Planning and Community Development Atm: Kim Lee 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Dear Ms. Lee, We are proposing a 30 unit condominium building to be built on a wee-plus acre site a.t the southwest comer of County Road C2 and State Highway 88. It will be it three story brick and stucco building with underground parking. The site itself is relatively flat with a large wetland area located approxiI:nately in the comer of the parcel. Our proposal would leave this wetland area intact and place the building and accompanying parking lot east of the wetlands. There are two single family homes located west of this property and, if our propo~al is approved as designed, the wetlands wiU be between our buildings and t"'e single family homes. ' The proposed building and parking lot will be located closer to the wetl"nd than your ordinance allows and we will require a setback variance from the wetlands. I think you can see we have sufficient land area (three-plus acres), however, the location of the wettand area in the center of the property renders the we$t side of lhe parcel inaccessible. Both the building and the parking lot need 10 be:on the east side of the propcrty. We have 30 parking spaces in the parking lot and an additional 30 spaces located under the buildinR , Our landscape plan calls for Ic\ndscapc edging and landscape rock as well as shrub plantings afound the building. Our tree plantings will be on the east and north sides of the building emd the ea"I, north, and south ~ides of the pal!king lot. As there are very few trees between the building and State Highway 88, we felt trees would provide an excellent screen from the hiKhway. Additionally, some trees will screen parking from the street (County Road 2). There are wetlands as a natural backdrop on the west side of the building. ?':0"d t6?:~889 .! 'Z: l./ to . ;:: ~ q ~ q ~ "" ~/ H '" <;: t t r:r 3 M L f" -,7" t -,', " N