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February 11, 1985 Honorable Mayor Demos and Council Members City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Dear Mayor and Members of The City Council: I wish to take this opportunity to thank you ,for allowing The Center Companies comment on the proposed Fashion Mall Development. The purpose of this letter is to acquaint you and staff with our concerns relative to the proposed plan for Fashion Mall, which was recently approved by the Planning Commission - with conditions. As previously indicated, we are pleased that The Center Companies, M< <ging Agents for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of The United States, owners of Rosedale Shopping Center (formerly Dayton Hudson Development) was the first to locate a major development in the area. Also, our centers are designed and anticipate related peripheral development which combination tends to be complementary to providing more complete retailing services. We support this approach and there- fore, have no objection to the development of a Fashion Center opposite the Regional Center, if it does not preclude free access to the Regional Center, which is the major draw to the Shopping complexes. Notwithstanding the above we have several concerns: 1. Access through the Mid -America entrance off B-2 without a signal could create a high hazard intersection. As you know, through the years we have, through signing, encouraged our customers to use the other entrances on B-2 to the center. 2. It appears from the Benshoof traffic analysis that warrants for a signal at the westerly entrance off B-2 to the Rosedale Center are probably not met at the moment. However, his report obviously only addressed Fashion Mall's traffic volume and did not look at the peak hours of B-2. If any are required it should be at the Regional Center's westerly entrance off B-2 rather than the proposed easterly entrance to Fashion Mall. 3. With the continued growth on the north side of B-2 has a recent traffic study been made to ascertain if the present road geometrics of CSAH B-2 can handle the future projected capacity?