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� DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />� <br />� <br />MEMORANDIIM <br />8 July 1991 <br />Steve Sarkozy <br />John Shardlow <br />SUBJECT: PLANNING OFFICE HOURS, June 26, 1991 <br />1. John Duffy <br />I met with John and the project architect for the property owned <br />by Gordy Howe in the southwest quadrant of Minnesota Avenue and <br />Rice Street. This is the site of the recently approved Dominion <br />Group project. Mr. Duffy is looking at the prospect of amending <br />the plans to change from 72 apartments to 52 townhouse units on <br />the property. <br />The purpose of the meeting was to review modifications to the <br />concept design that was reviewed at last week's office <br />hours session. Mr. Duffy indicated that he had a meeting <br />scheduled with the Minnesota Department of Transportation to <br />discuss whether or not MnDOT would allow them to grade out onto <br />the Highway right-of-way, or whether or not MnDOT would allow <br />them to locate their buildings closer to the highway right-of-way <br />than would be normally the practice. We emphasize the need to <br />move the buildings as far as possible away from the adjacen� <br />single-family homes to both provide additional buffer space <br />between the two developments and to maximize the preservation of <br />existing trees in the area. <br />We also discussed a series of exhibits that Mr. Duffy's architect <br />could prepare for a meeting with the surrounding neighbors, <br />including a number of site sections and some schematic drawings <br />illustrating the building materials on the proposed structures. <br />It is there intent to have a meeting with the adjacent property <br />owners prior to the sketch plan review before the Planning <br />Commission on the July lOth meeting. <br />2. Uldis Erdmanis <br />Mr. Erdmanis is with Buck Blacktop and he has been retained by <br />the Roseville School District to look at some design <br />modifications to the Centra� Park Elementary School parking lot. <br />The existing parking arrangement on the lot that is on the west <br />side of the building is very inefficient and causes a number of <br />problems in accommodating bus circulation and drop-off functions. <br />The majority of the session was spent discussing the development <br />of a design concept that would utilize one-way circulation and <br />angled parking and the separation of the designated bus lane <br />