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CONSULTING PLANNERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 300 FIRST AVENUE NORTH SUITE 210 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401 612.339.3300 8 May 1987 Craig Waldron Economic Dev. Director City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Dear Craig: Enclosed are two copies of a record listing approximately one dozen meetings held during Roseville Planning Office Hours. These meetings were in regard to the First Minnesota Federal Savings and Loan and the Kugler site to the west, which Minnesota Federal ultimately acquired. This document enclosed records our last meeting on March 17, 1987, to a meeting held December 12, 1984. Researching these records took longer than anticipated because most of the maps accompanying each memo this past year were printed too light to be readable. Thus, we went back to the originals filed with the City (where these copies were printed) to get new, readable copies. These maps give us the index to find the record of meetings relating to particular properties. On one of the enclosed copies of the meeting records, we have highlighted some of the significant information, particularly as it relates to our oft repeated recommendation that First Minnesota (previously Minnesota Federal) purchased the Kugler site. You will note that the subject o, zoning was discussed at our last meeting when a preliminary site plan was presented. At no time had we implied that the B-1 zone (which Kugler was zoned) was appropriate for the Bank expansion. The communication from First Minnesota seems to suggest that the City forced them into buying the Kugler property. This, of course, is not true. It is true that we were encouraging them to purchase the property since the time we learned the land would be available. The memo claims that David Drown misinformed them regarding the zoning. 1, personally, doubt that since the zoning map clearly indicates the land has been zoned B-1 since the days when the museum was originally constructed in the early 1960s. Mr. Drown nor anyone else would have had no basis for assuming the zones were the same on the Minnesota Federal property and the Kugler property.