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RCA Attachment D Bryan Lloyd From: Sent:Friday, July 15, 2022 9:41 PM To:Bryan Lloyd Subject:Resident Comment re. Planning Commission Vote on Tom Brama replat Attachments: NW roseville zoning.GIF Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. To the Roseville City Council, Tom Brama's Brama Vistas project proposes to put 7 dwelling units on two lots on Old Highway 8 with two buildings at the back end of the properties. In the open house Tom said that the city of Roseville is interested in "missing middle" housing. This corner of Roseville already has housing density that may be the highest in the county. Please refer to my annotated zoning map of the northwest corner of the city that I've attached. The Edison apartments have 59 units in service, 60 units under construction, and plans for 120 additional units along and just above Highway 88. Just to the South of the powerline ROW are the Rose 8 Estates with 85 apartments. Tom Brama has an 8plex next door south. There are 21 other apartment units in the Southwest corner adjacent to HIghcrest. There are 33 'missing middle' townhomes on County Rd. D: the Meadows (7 blocks of 4 and one of 5). Just north of Sandcastle Park are 8 twinhomes. There are other twinhomes between Highcrest and Old HIghway 8 north of C2. Roseville Townhomes has 40 units directly across from the Edison development. After Edison III there will be 3x as many multiple family dwelling units in the neighborhood as single family detached homes. The sliver of Roseville on the SEast corner of County C2 and Old Highway 8 has not been developed. The property on County Rd D to the West of the Meadows is undeveloped. Both of these areas have the acreage to make beautiful "missing middle" residential dwellings. Because a property owner could meet current zoning regulations to create an infill project doesn't mean he should be allowed to. This corner of the city, maybe all of the city AFAIK, has not had the Edina teardown McMansion affliction, but if this one block of the old Troseth farm gets disturbed again I fear the gate will open for a huge, unwanted character change for this uniquely quiet. pastoral corner of the city. As it is, all of the mature deciduous trees toward the back of the lots, a few over 40' tall will be removed. That, to me, is a big change in the character of the north end of the block. You cannot deny that Dutch elm changed the character of a neighborhood when the cathedral effect on the street and shade disappeared. If I lived East of the proposed development I would certainly think the character of my neighborhood is changed when a pair of townhomes are built a few feet from my backyard. What other Roseville neighborhoods have more than three times as many 'dense' housing units as single family detached homes? Maybe East of Snelling to Owasso between C and C2 and SE of McCarron in the Rice Street corridor. Our home, at 3002 Troseth, is at risk of more flooding with the removal of so many mature trees and 22,000 sq. ft of impervious structure and driveway where there used to be 8,000. I saw nothing in the plans that holding ponds or sufficient rain garden capacity will offset the loss of current water carrying capacity just across the street behind our neighbor's houses on Troseth. We have not been part of the long running drainage problem alluded to in the planning commission meeting, but already have flooding issues because the storm sewers on Troseth cannot absorb heavy downpours. I believe our neighborhood needs a more definitive assessment of both current and proposed drainage issues before any projects like this are accepted. 1 Page 17 of 50