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REDA Meeting <br /> Minutes—Tuesday,June 5,2017 <br /> Page 11 <br /> Tom Brama, 2994 Old Highway 8 (home) and 3020 Old Highway 8 (11- <br /> unit apartment complex) <br /> Mr. Brama submitted written comments in opposition to the project, and <br /> expounded on his concerns verbally at the meeting. <br /> With everyone talking from a residential perspective, Mr. Brama stated his <br /> interest as a developer with 480 units in a complex on the other side of Old <br /> Highway 8, the Brighton Village apartments built between 1968 and 1971. <br /> Mr. Brama advised that those had been constructed without any public subsidy, <br /> and his rents still supported workforce housing, as most older housing stock <br /> did other than this proposed project. <br /> Using information from the developer's submittals, Mr. Brama addressed the <br /> proposed number of subsidized units based for those at 60% of the area median <br /> income, the proposed rent to be charged for an affordable housing unit. Mr. <br /> Brama also noted that the building's height would be four stories, no three, and <br /> would tower over Roseville Eight Estates immediately next door, currently at <br /> 2.5 stories, and would therefore be totally out of character in the neighborhood. <br /> Even with the extensive new building at Sand Castle Park, Mr. Brama noted <br /> the current graffiti removal required, and opined that with an influx of 500 to <br /> 600 more people, that could be expected to go up, creating additional city <br /> expenses. Mr. Brama asked if Sand Castle Park was big enough to handle an <br /> additional influx of young people using it. <br /> By the city giving away tax money for a number of years, Mr. Brama opined it <br /> would hamstring the city, and also as pointed out by other speakers, this area <br /> of Roseville was the forgotten corner where none of the council members <br /> lived. <br /> Mr. Brama asked that the REDA consider multi-family construction in <br /> adjacent communities to this northwest corner of Roseville, and on the other <br /> side of the intersection, with 1,000 units in the City of New Brighton within a <br /> half mile of this site required to share infrastructure and massive traffic issues. <br /> Mr. Brama asked if the developer would be asked to widen Old Highway 8 to <br /> handle increased traffic, or if eminent domain would be used to take over <br /> adjacent properties in order to do so. <br /> Mr. Brama opined that taking action tonight to continue supporting the <br /> developer seeking tax credits would be unfair when the question remained <br /> whether the parcel could or should handle HDR to the detrimental affect of the <br /> neighborhood. <br /> Mr. Brama noted that one of the members of the REDA in opposition to <br /> supporting the project was not present tonight; and while he wasn't saying this <br /> developer was not welcome in the community or that additional housing was <br /> needed, by simply lowering the parcel for MDR, an additional 30-40 <br />