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INCORPORATED CONSULTING PLANNERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 300 FIRST AVENUE NORTH SUITE 210 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401 612 ,339.3300 MEMORANDUM DATE: 14 September 1989 TO: Roseville City Staff FROM: Howard Dahlgren RE: Har Mar Mall Landscape Renovation The Proposed Landscape Renovation and Planting Plan for the Har Mar Mall, dated August 1989, has been reviewed by our firm. As part of the review Howard Dahlgren and Wally Case, one of our Landscape Architects, inspected the site on Friday, September 8. We concluded that the plant material proposed to be added to the landscape buffer strip along the south and west sides of the property is acceptable as long as the existing large spruce trees are preserved. A telephone discussion with Ed Reid, Har Mar's Landscape Architect, was required to clarify their plan and to verify that the existing large spruce trees will remain in all parts of the buffer zone. The plantings proposed for the landscape buffer along the east side of the Mall will not provide adequate buffering where Belmont, Skillman, and Shryer end at the buffer strip. The landscaping in this area is not approved until additional plantings are included to improve the screening of the views at the end of these streets. Subsequent to our determination that the landscaping proposed for the eastern buffer strip was not acceptable and with the approval of City Staff, Mr. Case met with Mr. Reid on site to consider our suggestions for improving the plan by adding plants at the ends of the affected streets. Their meeting resulted in Mr. Reid agreeing to prepare a revised plan which will place a total of seven additional trees at the end of these streets. These additional plants increase the approved total number of trees from 64 to 71. Based on comments from City Staff and the Har Mar Center Manager, we understand that the proposed plan was developed through a process that involved meeting with the neighbors four times over the summer and that at the last meeting the neighbors were asked to inspect the plan and to sign an approval sheet. We understand that twelve of the eighteen neighbors present signed and that the remaining six have refused to sign.