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City of Roseville Variance Board Community Development Department 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 It was my fortune to move to Roseville in July of 1989. My wife, Nancy, and I have enjoyed the years since, living here, raising our 3 sons as well as having my private business in Roseville. My 2 youngest sons attend Roseville High School and Roseville Middle School. We enjoy our house very much, we enjoy the winters for their sports, but spring, summer and fall find us often on our deck, working in the backyard, or in Nancy's gardens, which are her pride. Unfortunately, as the years have passed other families have discovered the wonders of the City of Roseville and thus our population has grown. This coupled with an increase in the populations of the suburbs to our North and East, and a desire to avoid excess traffic on our major arteries, has resulted in a drastic increase in vehicular traffic on Roselawn. Likewise, especially in nice weather, we find excessive numbers of walkers, runners, and bicyclist. Weekday rush hour traffic has grown to such an extent in numbers and in noise, that it is now impossible to simply sit and talk, or attempt to entertain on our backyard deck from 4-7 p.m. Sometimes in the morning, especially in the summer, we would like to sit on the deck for breakfast, but the noise from buses, trucks, motorcycles, and human traffic most often cancels this idea. On summer evenings, we like to have evening bonfires, but this is becoming increasingly more unbearable, as the noise continues from vehicular traffic and vulgarities from young children as they walk (run away) on Roselawn. We continue to lose privacy as well as the use of our yard, deck, and house property. Presently, I have a 5-foot wooden fence along Roselawn Avenue as shown in Pictures A, B, C. Recent inspection of this fence has shown decay and rot starting to occur in the structural post (4"x 4") of the fence. It will need to be replaced soon. This area of Roselawn now has an elevation that varies 2.0-2.4 feet above my property, as shown in pictures A, B, C and diagrammed in R/ustration #1. This cross diagram was taken from the deck through the opening in the fence and across Roselawn Avenue South to North. Therefore, I actually have only have a 3.6- 4.0 foot fence existing along the walking path on Roselawn Avenue giving almost no privacy from pedestrian traffic. Likewise, the