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. '- -.- - -- -- EVEREST DEVELOPIY1ENt LTD. ;'\'~\'f:f:": II -~'F:.~;"'t...-~'::::..."'Ill'~-n January 16, 1998 Via Fax (490-2931) and Regular Mail Kim L. Lee, AfCP City Planner City of RoseviHe 2660 Civic Centre Drive Roseville, MN 55113-1899 Re: Comprehensive Plan Amendment Application 2218-2240 Hamline Avenue PF#2978 Dear Ms, lee: The purpose of this letter is to inform you that we are withdrawing our application to amend the Comprehensive Plan designation of the subject properties from medium density residential to limited business and, accordingly. the application should be removed from the January 26 City Council agenda. V'Je are withdrawing our application because it is obvious that it is impossible to obtain a fair hearing on the merits of our proposal in the face of substantial anti-Everest bias exhibited by City staff and the current Council. exemplified by Council member Goedeke at Wednesday night's Planning Commission meeting, A brief review of our contacts with the City concerning the Hamline Avenue property over the past several months demonstrates that staff and the City Council are intent on discrediting and disadvantaging Everest, rather than providing a neutral forum for judging a redevelopment opportunity on its merits. In the course of informal meetings and conversations with City Manager Steve Sarkozy in October of this past year, Mr. Sarkozy gave contradictory indications of how an office redevelopment proposal might be initiated with the City. First Mr. Sarkozy stated an office redevelopment concept could be considered within the conte,c of the City's annual Comprehensive Plan updating process which was to occur in the fall of 1997; later he stated there was no such Comprehensive Plan updating planned for the remainder of 1997 nor any identifiable time period going into the future. ~I,i,; L"n'~ I .l~t' R, ).,d ;-~;':'.' . ~~ h.' '.'~'-... -::"\'. .