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qualities worthy of preservation. They are more vulnerable to external influences than other residential areas that were redeveloped to accommodate the Crossroads, Loehmann's Plaza, and Pavilion Place projects near Rosedale Center. Other instances where already established residential areas were redeveloped for non- residential uses include the Centre Pointe and Gateway projects. In some of these residential areas there was a semblance of neighborhood. The four subject homes east of Hamline Avenue interface with a 6-story office building, a concrete industrial plant, and a high traffic library. all commercial uses. In addition to its history of redeveloping several residential areas for office, commercial, or industrial redevelopment uses, there are numerous examples of other properties in the City of Roseville where office and even commercial retail uses co-exist adjacent to single-family residential neighborhoods. Among these examples are the Water's Edge office building, Har Mar Mall, Roseville Crossroads Shopping Center, Rosedale Commons Shopping Center, Jubilee Foods Grocery Store, Super America station at Lexington/County Road B, and NCR headquarters office facility on County Road C and Pascal. In 1986, the City commissioned a study by Public Financial Systems to evaluate seven areas within the City where redevelopment might reasonably be expected to occur. The purpose of the study was to establish appropriate land uses for each of the seven areas and to identify the financial means to have the City assist with redevelopment efforts, The Consultant concluded that some amount of redevelopment should occur on the east side of Hamline Avenue, with particular emphasis on the Chandler-Wilbert Burial Vault facility. The PFS study concluded that medical or professional office buildings would be appropriate redevelopment uses on the east side of Hamline Avenue. The City's Planning Consultant, Howard Dahlgren, was asked to critique the PFS study and he did so in a memo dated January 8, 1987, termed Comments On "Target Study Areas" City of Roseville, prepared by Public Financial Systems, Inc. Planning Consultant Dahlgren's comments show recognition that the houses that then remained (10 years ago) on Hamline Avenue represented a negative neighborhood influence because their future disposition was, as yet, undecided, He also acknowledged the inevitability that this residential area will be redeveloped for other uses. The following are quotes from Mr. Dahlgren's memo dated January 8, 1987: ~The most important objective in considering the appropriate land use for the redevelopment of this site is the preservation of the neighborhood interest. This means two things: one, the absolute prevention of the penetration of any traffic into the neighborhood residential street system, and two, the control of the structure mass (or structure masses) so as to prevent a deleterious impact on the existing well-established single family neighborhood to the east." Lf-