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` OZ 91 Inr July 13, 2021 Department of Engineering Attn: Marc Culver 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Re: Proposed Amendment to Pathway Master Plan Dear Marc and City Staff, I appreciate your hard work with the City of Roseville and your creative process in seeking meaningful enhancements and pathways for residents throughout the City. l am, however, concerned about the recent, proposed pathway being considered for Eustis Street. A public pathway, I believe, is convenient for walking through a thick, wooded area in a park -like setting or is used to provide a much safer option for pedestrians near a busy street. However, St. Croix, St. Stephen and Fulham Streets, as well as Hwy 36 Service Drive, Laurie Road, Marion, Acorn and Fairways Lane are all consistently and heavily walked by neighbors in this neighborhood. Yet none of these streets need or have pathways. However, Eustis Street, the shortest, most quiet and least travelled street 'in the neighborhood, is now being considered for a pathway? In addition, your Proposed Amendment for the Pathway Master Plan suggests a future connection eventually passing from Eustis Street to St. Croix Street. That is property I believe owned by the State, not the City. During our lifetime at this home, since 1986, we have personally and voluntarily maintained that adjacent property by mowing, weeding, with burdock and buckthorn eradicating as much as physically possible, with no help from the City or State. In spite of the closeness of the freeways and taller and taller freeway lights, we have spent those years establishing a more pleasant oasis for ourselves and our neighbors by doing so. I would hate to think of that property soon becoming a public thoroughfare and, would see any future pathway crossing that area as inconsiderate of the work we have voluntarily done for the past 35 years as well as destroying our personal peace, privacy and safety.