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s h' c' L,,) Design Cenlerfln' American Urban Landscape College o!Archirecllire & Landscape Architecture ,SlIite 222 13 1 3 Fifih Srreet S.E. i\ifinnea{}()lis. i'vtN 55414-1546 612..627-/850 Fax: 612.627.4/24 e 10, 2002 zabeth Plater-Zyberk, Dean 001 of Architecture arles C. Bohl, Director ight Program in Community Building iversity of Miami . Box 249178 Gables, FL 33146-5010 Plater-Zyberk and Mr. Bohl: ~Design Center for American Urban Landscape, College of Architecture and Landscape 'techlre, University of Minnesota is pleased to write a letter of support and enthusiastic uragement to select Roseville as the site for the 2002 Knight Ridder Community Building Design Charrette. There are regional, subregional, and local reasons, which make Roseville xcellent choice. Let me begin with the regional. Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council is in the midst of a regional Smart Growth y, Calthorpe and Associates are leading it. This study supports current policy debates t revisions to the Regional Blueprint, our regional planning document. A major concern of Smart Growth advocates is the lack of strong regional vision and effective policy and ementation tools for leveraging our inner suburban communities as ideal places for restment and transit-supportive developments. Showcasing Rosedale and the surrounding in a Knight Ridder Charrette could serve as a vehicle for the region to focus this broader ussion around a particular place, crystallize the underlying issues, and tap the resources of . ght fellows and faculty to move the discussion from debate to action. dale sits at the confluence of several regional and subregional highway facilities, a eck in the regional system. MnDOT is just beginning an internal planning process to te its Transportation System Plan, which will address this bottleneck. Through the efforts of orth Metro 1-35W Corridor Coalition (of which Roseville is a leader) and because of 'ng policies within the department, MnDOT has engaged Coalition communities in this 'ng process. The charrette would generate valuable information about transportation ations of a Smart Growth SAC, which MnDOT could integrate into their planning. It also insert new and creative thinking about designing freeways and SACs to be mutually I believe that MnDOT would be interested in participating in the charrette. e subregional scale, Roseville is a leader of the North Metro 1-35W Corridor Coalition. "1 suburban communities formed the Coalition in 1995. Through a joint powers agreement, ertakes collaborative planning and project implementation to ensure livable communities. oalition is recognized as a regional model for interjurisdictional approaches to planning mplementing Smart Growth strategies-and, as far as we are able to discern, unique hally. oalition is in the final year of a three-year subregional growth Shldy supported in part mding from the Metropolitan Council, MnDOT, and the McKnight Foundation. The Center is leading this study, which has included leading Smart Growth consultants, Tim Rood with Calthorpe Associates and Fred Dock with Meyer, Mohaddes Associates.