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. e CASE NUH~ER: APPLICANr: 1511-84 Patnck Goff Pase 2 stubs into the property at the aouthwelt corner. From that point a 30 foot wide private street !System. will make a circle through the prop~rty providlng access to the units, 16 of which ",ill be oriented toward the pond on the west and the south of the property. Ro.e Pbce 1rlhich you know is platted but not bui1~ from Fern"'ood to Lexington Avenue, is proposed to be vac.ted as it relates to thi. portion of the slte. At the appropriate time, if this development i. approved. the Council Illay wish to vacate Rose Place in its entirety from. Fernwood Street to the cul-de-sac proposed 1n the Jones development to the e.st. The vacation of Rose Place as you know has been support,d by neighbor. in the area who prefer to remain oriented to the cul-de....cs aI they now exilt. With respect to the vAcation of Rose Place, the engineering Departt\Ulnt recommends th.t the City maintain an ea.ement over the vacated Ro.e Place for utility purposes which partially exist today. Also, a drainage ea.ement should be provided for that portion of the property covered by ponding. The Engineering Department alto suggesU that the cul-de-uc .hould be constructed as a part of the proposed develupment either by petition for a public improvement project to be done by the City, or being done by the applicant" then turned over to tbe Clty. 4. The development proposal adhere. to all the zon1ng requirement.~ and the utilitiel concept as proposed in the gradlng and utility plan. i. workable. 5. We have suggested to the applicants that they ducuu the proposal with neighbors in the area so they may be better informed of the proposal prior to the Planning CommlSsion hearing. We underatand that soue of the neighbors ate in favor and some of them are not in fav~~ due principally to the additional traffic that might be generated by tb~ JevelopQtnt. The duplex development approved some 12-14 "ears ago would have had nine lots with 18 units, while the Goff propoul .'tows 23 townhouse unitt, th'\, the current proposal has five additional UI\"ts. Obviously, five more unit. will generate additional traffic. There are ~i8ht additional lot. fronting on the Fernwood Street cul-de~8a( Vir.u~lly all of thi. traffic will access from Oakcrest WhlCh, of cour' ~ proceeds easterly to Lexington and westerly to Hamline. However, Oakcrest does not extend beyond these Itreets, and thus. is limited to one-half mile 1n length, thus the traffic on this street though it will increas~, is Slgnificantly leu than many residentlal streets in the City. 6. Whether located on this site or not, we suggest that townhouse units Illanaged by an association as proposed here a~e 1n ahort .upply in Rosevll1e. Roseville res1dentlal development consists primarily of single family homes and apartments (rental and condominium~). There i. a strong market throughout the Metropolitan Area for townhouses oriented to the empty nesters whereln the children have left home, and the large single f&mily house becomes a maintenance problem. We see thu phenomena occurring in many metropolitan communities, and of course, nation-wide.