Correspondence 1985-1989 Dahlgren

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� u 3. '��. J 1 Planning Office Hours July 16, 1986 • Page 2 We expressed our concerns, as we did in the previous week� regarding the handling of the access to the site off the currently constructed service road. Mr, Honchell had sug- gested that the new road to be constructed on the east side of the shopping center be extended straight south to County Road C. This would allow for the vacation of the existing service road now angling past the front of Slawik's Ford Motor site. We had discussed this proposal with Mrs. Slawik and her advisors several weeks a o in contact with the Lincoln Progert suggesting that they get mutually beneficial idea. P Y People to consider this Mr. Geister noted that the Lincoln people had tried to get in touch with Mrs. Slawik, but a meeting had not taken place yet. We suggested it would be mutually beneficial to relocate this service road, and that it would be important to accomplish this objective as quickty as possible. I subsequently met with Chuck DuFresne and Ron Krank, neither of whom could meet with us on the 16th, to stress the importance of this roadwa a reement. that if the service road is vacated, thaDuthisnwouldccreerned greater development �otential for the Slawik ate a east of the shopping center and ma Property to the the shopping center from Snellin yAvenue,conIesuence, screen this is not likel g g5ested that Y, inasmuch as the frontage to the Slawik property would no� orient, for access purposes, to the west ia new service road). I noted further that the question of retail develapment �long the County Road C corridor w�s under study, and the result of that study could have impact on the ultimate deci- sion for retai.l in this area (particularly a� it relates to the market conditions). 2 feel, however, that the shopping center and the new service road concept will benefit the area, and provide a assured left turn access Road C� some six hundred feet westerly of SnelpingtAvenueunty Schroeder 631-0159 H3rry Schroeder, architect and developer of the office park westerly of Hamline, was in with Jack Ocenasek of William Steel and Hardware Company, who are They propo�e to make a minor changerinerthen planned�]Unit Development under which these buildings are b�ing constructed. The change would affect the southwesterly most building, where a pair of 1,000 square foot structures are indicated. The proposal is to substitute one level with basement to a s�lit leve�., resulting in the same squaze footage and parking needs, but a smaller footprint. They request this change, inasmurh as it satisfies a potential user. I suggested that this change was not sYgnificant enough to warzant reprocessing a P,U.D, through the Planning Commission and Council. The nearest development is Goldstein's Senior Citizen's project to the southcaest.