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From: Sent: 2004 10:25 AM To: thomas.paschke@ci.roseville,mn.us Subject: petition PF3556 To: Members of the Roseville City Council Re: Petition for Variance PF 3556 From: Herb and Betty Mischke 3100 Ridgewood Road Roseville, MN, 55112 In addition to our e-mail to the Planning Commission, which we understand you have, we want to add these concerns. 1. The Arden Hills NO.3 subdivision, which includes this neighborhood,was platted in February of 1950 according to our documents. To our knowledge all the building lots in this subdivision were platted with at least 100 feet of frontage, some considerably more. All of us who have bought property here because we wanted to live in Arden Hills 3 and enjoy its amenities, had to buy lots with at least 100 feet of frontage. The petition for a 16 foot variance from the regular Roseville minimum of 85 feet for a new owner is actually a petition for a 31 foot variance from the 100 foot minimum that applied to all of the rest of us. A 69 foot lot right next to a 131 foot lot and across from a 200 to 300 foot lot amidst 100 foot lots, is very much out of character in our opinion, 2, As desirable as it may be to make another building site available in Roseville, it probably would be the oddity of the neighborhood. All the homes in the immediate neighborhood are one floor ramblers. It appears to us that no matter what kind of home and garage are built on the proposed 69 foot lot, it would be difficult if not impossible to build one that is adequate and also compatible with the character of the neighborhood homes, particularly adjacent to a 92 foot home and garage. 3. We also have safety and congestion concerns. The intersection of Asbury and Ridgewood Road is not a typical intersection. For traffic on Asbury it is a through street, but for traffic on Ridgewood Road, approaching Asbury in a southwesterly direction, up a significant incline, it requires more caution. If there are no cars parked on the east side of Asbury, our view and sightlines are adequate. However when cars are parked on both sides of the street, it is a different story. Through the years we have lived there, this has happened when there have been family holiday gatherings, graduation open houses, etc. requiring considerably more caution. With another home at that intersection and another driveway, in addition to the two driveways at or very near the intersection, we would anticipate more congestion on those occasions. It would help if the new driveway is placed as far from the intersection as possible, and if this were a full 1 00 foot lot, the driveway could be placed 31 feet further away. Cars and children darting out of driveways between parked cars can produce a disaster, as it did down at the other end of the block, when a 7 year old girl, who lived at that intersection, was struck and killed some years ago. Our 7 year old child was playing with her at the time. Because of experiencing that terrible tragedy, we must express our safety concerns, aand the hope that we will not do anything here that will increase the risk that a similar disaster will occur again in our neighborhood, 05/06/2004