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From:Rachel Brown To:Dan Roe Subject:Aldine Street Vacation - Date:Monday, April 21, 2025 10:50:37 AM You don't often get email from brown-rachel@comcast.net. Learn why this is important Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. Hi Mayor Roe, I am one of the 8 underlying property owners of the Aline Street Vacation (Area V) that you will be voting on tonight. I ask you to please vote Yes on the full vacation of the Area V tonight. All 8 property owners are eager to have full access to our land (subject to the utility easement). We also all agree that we do not want a formal, city-code compliant paved path that would completely alter our landscapes, change our use of our properties, disrupt our lives during planning and construction, remove or distress, existing oak trees, and cost the city a lot of time and money. And for me, personally, the full vacation lets me finally address signifiant issues on my property where I have lived for 25 years. 1)The ROW line is just a few feet from my garage entry. (First photos below shows the approximate line from two perspectives). The house, built in 1934, well before the 1950’s ROW was enacted, had a small tuck-under garage. A 1960s addition (white siding part) extended the garage a bit, but either way, the ROW was very close to the garage. This means that in order to have car access to the garage, my driveway must be on the ROW land. 2)Because of this, I have a gravel driveway that is not code-compliant and is expensive to maintain. (Third photo shows one of the gravel piles, left on the lawn after a season of snow removal.) Full re-graveling costs about $2,000 and needs to be done every 2-3 years. 3)The raising of the roof line in the 1960s remodel also created an issue with the back bedroom windows - they were originally windows to the outside; now they open into the garage (fourth photo). This is a problem that I intend to correct with a garage/house remodel. But without the ROW portion returned to me, there is little space for me to build a normal garage. All this to say, I was very thankful to learn of the city’s plan to vacate the ROW for me and the other underlying property owners of this land. My fiancé and I have begun work with an architect on the home and garage design, but we cannot move forward with this until the ROW issue is resolved. So we really hope you will vote yes for the full vacation tonight. Thank you for your consideration. Qbhf!65!pg!216