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NORTH rvtETRO I-35W CORRIDOR COALITION 803-5th. Avenue NW '"' - New Brighton, MN 55112-2792 June 10, 2002 Elizabeth Plater-Zybeck, Dean School of Architecture Charles C. Bohl, Director Knight Program in Community Building University of Miami P.O. Box 249178 Coral Gables, FL 33146-5010 Dear Dean Plater-Zybeck and Director Bohl: It is with pleasure and pride that I write to you in support of the selection of Roseville, Minnesota as the site for your 2002 fall planning and design event. On behalf of the seven member cities and our partners in the North Metro I-35W Corridor Coalition, we would be honored and excited to help facilitate your event and to make you welcome while you are here. We speak for the Coalition with pride in our accomplishments in establishing the joint planning organization, developing an exquisite parcel based plmming database and completion of our Coalition 20 Year Build Out Study. Each of these successes would give you a setting and capacity to conduct an outstanding community building and design charette. I believe that we can provide a planning platform that is truly unique and beyond the capacity of any other site you might consider. In turn, the expertise that your fellows, staff and students would bring would assist us in numerous ways toward implementation of our study recommendations in Roseville and throughout the Coalition. The collaborative work of the Coalition has set the stage for each of our member Cities to integrate key principles of smart grovvth, mixed use design and infrastructure investments to enable us to emerge from our build out projects with a more livable community of communities. The Roseville efforts to integrate our study results around the Rosedale Suburban Activity Center are key to the success of the Coalition. We hope that you \vill select the Roseville site. We will do whatever we can as a Coalition to support your efforts. Sincerely, //,<,-r / . ( JJse~{rauss \--Nice-I resident/Administrator