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Bruce and Sandra Weber 1440 W. Eldridge Avenue Roseville, MN 55113 12cJ ?>/ ~ Iii tt ~ '.... March 3, 1999 Mr. Thomas Paschke, City Planner City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 RE: Planning File 3104 - Cub Foods Dear Mr. Paschke: We believe that the neighborhood meeting Monday evening among Har-Mar (Bradley Partnership), Jerry's Foods and the neighbors left many unresolved issues that must be addressed seriously by the Planning Department, Planning Commission and the City Council. My specific concerns, and those raised by my neighbors, are: 1. Parking lot drainage and storm sewers. The current drainage ponds don't work effectively, and we felt little reassurance that the proposed changes would help. The entire question of drainage at the northern end of the property along the east side was not addressed. Will the revisions proposed help or hinder the drainage throughout the entire site? During heavy rains, the Har-Mar parking lot along Burke, Eldridge and Belmont floods, overflowing into those streets and the yards of the closest neighbors. If you would like to see photographic proof of the 1997 flood on Eldridge, please let me know. Also, no one offered a definitive plan for snow placement, which effects drainage during spring melting. At the very least, we feel the storm drainage issue for the entire Har-Mar property should be addressed before allowing any changes to the sections relating only to the proposed Cub addition. 2. We strongly believe the entire question of traffic congestion has not been taken seriously, nor been properly addressed. The proposed routing dumps all the truck traffic along the perimeter roads closest to the neighbors. The truck docks encroach directly into the neighborhood. Because of this layout, trucks will probably enter on Country Road B, follow a widened, higher (more visible and noisy) access road to the truck docks, back in to unload, then circle around to the south and west to exit on Snelling Avenue. The noise, pollution and general disruption will directly impact the vast majority of Har-Mar's neighbors. It is true that the truck docks for Home Place were in the same general location as the Cub proposal, but Home Place was not a 24 hour, 16 trucks a day operation. In addition, Cub expects up to 3,000 transactions a day, which we project to mean at least 2,500 more cars a day (how many buyers car pool to a grocery store?). With the theatres very active in the late afternoon and evenings, the congestion, not to mention the noise and pollution, will be intolerable. Yet, no one from Jerry's or Bradley could offer any traffic statistics -- not a single number -- about the impact on the center and the neighborhood. This issue has not, in my view, been given the very serious attention it requires. We suggest all concerned be condemned to drive around The Crossroads Center (Best Buy and Rainbow) for two hours each Saturday afternoon until they understand what traffic congestion, noise and pollution mean. 1".t\~