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Margaret Driscoll From: support@civicplus.com Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:01 AM To: p~ `RVCouncil; Margaret Driscoll; Bill Malinen Subject: HarMar/Wendy Online Form Submittal: Contact City Council The following form was submitted via your website: Contact City Council Subject: October 13th council meeting Name:: Wendy Address:: ~e City:: Roseville State: MN Zip:: 55113 How would you prefer to be contacted? Remember to fill in the corresponding contact information.: No Reply Necessary Home Phone Number:: Daytime Phone Number:: ~~ Email Address:: Please Share Your Comment, Question or Concern: I am asking you, as a Roseville City council member to refuse to change the Roseville comprehensive plan to allow retail stores larger than 100,000 sq. ft. to be allowed in areas designated" Community Business." To take away this limitation opens the-door to large scale retail in areas that are not equipped to handle stores of this size. Just drive by Har Mar some weekend and see what the traffic is like and this is without a big box at the site! Take a look at the traffic on Highway 36 and Highway 35W and picture this increased by 15,000 additional cars per day (this figure is from previous estimates when a big box was being considered at Twin Lakes). I am also asking that you leave the current Twin Lakes Master plan in place and do not change .the Comprehensive plan to allow changes to occur with a 3/2 vote instead of the 4/1 vote. It is important to protect Langton Lakes and the surrounding residential areas from such large unnecessary developments and you - as our elected officials should be listening to residents and not developers. To go under the table and change the Twin Lake Master plan so now the council can do whatever they want with a 3/2 vote just shows where the majority of the council members priorities are. You were elected to represent the citizens of Roseville not developers. These large developments do not benefit Roseville residents/taxpayers. The big boxes being proposed will not create jobs that pay a livable wage. They will only increase the infrastructure costs for the taxpayers. More police, street improvements, fire protections, frustration from sitting even longer on the freeways and stree is in the area due. to increased traffic, will make this a great deal for the developer and a poor one for the residents who live in the area. Where is the affordable housing, businesses paying livable wages and increased park land/community centers that would benefit the public who bear the cost for these changes. Please consider the residents first when you vote tonight. The people in these areas will bear the true cost as they struggle to deal with increased traffic, increased noise/exhaust pollution and decreased property values. Thank you for your time. Wendy Thompson