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Attachment 7 As you work to make your recommendation to the Council about the Aldine ROW, I ask you to center the perspective of the Roseville community who will be the most impacted by your decision: the 24 Roseville residents (21 current and 3 arriving by birth or marriage this fall) who live along it. Just as there is no day without night, there is no public without private. A decision to change this roadway ROW to a park with a trail, will impact all these private property owners. I did not purchase my home 25 year ago because of the ROW. Having people walk all along my property at any time of day or night was not an amenity I sought but a condition I had to accept. My 1706 Ryan neighbors, my fiancé, and I are thankful to have learned the 20 feet that was considered ROW is our private land and are eager to continue to tend it and now, with full control of it, to use it more effectively. Similarly, I ask you to not take away that same opportunity for the 6 other properties along the ROW. They did not choose to purchase homes along a park. When the one property was purchased in 1975, the recently closed shortcut trail did not even extend all the way to Roselawn. Children cut through backyards along Mid Oaks. The other 5 properties were all purchased with existing and non-intrusive use of the ROW, including all but one fence placed along what was then believed to be the homeowners’ property lines. If the ROW is not vacated and instead turned into a park with a trail, all 8 properties along the ROW will bear financial costs. For example: * Many, if not all of us, are looking to build 6 foot 6-inch privacy fences along our portions of it. We have been told this will be a private owner cost, which is, of course, significant. (If the vacation happens, I will quickly replace my encroaching fence with a low metal one, similar to the old existing fence, needed only for my dog space. I believe others will also maintain their fences with low visual impact.) * If the City requires removal of the one existing tall privacy fence, installed by previous owners, the family will not only lose existing backyard space for their young children but will also have to pay to remove and then install a new fence a few feet to the east. * Replacing the woodland feel of the yards with long lines of privacy fences will also re-shape the character of the properties and potentially their value. Qbhf!75!pg!29: