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i vYU. 11VVVLV VVV{rlll a t.ll~' --UL. 1 aUl 11V11GG1 rice Liu1w11Q1 rlluay, JU11C G/ rage i of ~~ From: esands2612@aol.com To: aty.council@ci.roseville.mn.us; bill.malinen@a.roseville.mn.us; sta@ratwiklaw.com; jts@ratwiklaw.com; preuvers@iversonlaw.com Bcc: ESANDS2612@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Howt o Govem a City -St. Paul Pioneer Press Editorial Friday, June 27 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 2:04 pm Commentary on the nature of the Twin Lakes Comprehensive Plan: -----Original Message---- From: esands2612@aol.com To: dan.roe@comcast.net Bcc: ESANDS2612@aol.com Sent: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 9:53 am Subject: Fwd: Howt o Govem a City -St. Paul Pioneer Press Editorial Friday, June 27 As I said last night, here are my final comments on this subject for your review. I shall be providing copies of our ongoing discussion regarding the true nature of the Twin Lakes Comprehensive Plan to the City Council, and to the attorneys involved. Thank you for this frank and informative discussion. AI Sands Hello Dan Roe: Your last set of comments to me via a mail regazding the Appelate Court decision are of such magnitude that I feel it necessary for me to share it with your fellow councilpersons and the public, along with my assessment of what such a construction of the Twin Lakes Appellate Court Ruling means. If I understand you correctly, it is your position that the appeals court ruling merely ruled on the attempt by the city to insert the Rottlund master plan into the City's Twin Lakes Master plan. That was ruled "ineffective". BUT that did not decide whether or not the Rottlund plan was inconsistent with the Twin Lakes Master Plan. The City's attempt to insert The Rottlund Plan into the Comprehensive Plan was an unnecessary procedure---a mistake, of no importance or consequence as to the ability of the Rottlund plan to proceed anyway, since the true nature of the Twin Lakes Master Plan allows for a variety of possible implementation plans without the obligation to insert any such plan into the Twin Lakes Master and Comprehensive Plan. The Twin Lakes Master Plan is today same Plan since 6/26/01, so what it is deemed to be today, also applies to any preceding plan. Under that legal position, the city and the developer should have proceeded to implement the Rottlund Master Plan, without inserting it into the Comprehensive Plan, on the basis that the Master Plan allows a vaziety of plans, and declazing the Rottlund plan consistent with what constitutes the Twin Lakes Master Plan. Inserting the Rottlund Plan into the Twin Lakes Master Plan and the Comp Plan is unnecessary, and therefore the Appellate Court ruling is meaningless. So, if as you say, your position is the legally correct one: --The City has made a terrible blunder by unnecessarily stopping the Rottlund Twin Lakes project. --The developers also blundered by stopping the project. --The attorney(s) representing the City in this matter gave seriously flawed advice to Council. I'll be very curious to see if your fellow council persons, and the city attorney, and Mr. Reuvers, the attorney representing the City in this matter, concur with your view of the meaning of the Appellate Court Decision, and that the Rottlund plan is still a legally viable plan consistent with the Twin Lakes Master Plan, as amended 6/26/01. Al Sands http://webmail.aol.com/29047/aol/en-us/Mail/PrintMessage.aspx 8/7/2007