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Single-Family Residential Lot Split Study ■ Built four nice houses sold for 500,000 or more. ■ More Moms/Dads/children. ■ Young families have moved into the neighborhood. ■ My new neighbors are in my backyard and they always interact with us. 4. Have you noticed any negative neighborhood impacts since the subdivision of this lot? 45% Yes 53% No If ,�res, what? ■ As mentioned above in #2. To add - the developers should be required to replace even a portion of the trees removed for building. Noise, dust, dirt, etc. in construction. Yes, I know we have to put up w/ home improvements - but a demolition, tree-razing, and two new houses is a lot. ■ We have lost a wooded area. The house next door to the new lot is overwhelmed by one new house going up there. ■ The area now looks crowded. ■ Second home is sitting no [t] finished and no sign of work being done. They are allowing oversize homes to be built for area. Acorn Road has terrible large home built on small lot? ■ Continuing construction in once-sleepy neighborhood. More housing changes traffic, etc. - however, more negative was traffic from group home in neighborhood. ■ Loss of privacy - trees taken down - I guess that's called progress? ■ My view in back isn't as nice. ■ All the ducks and wild life no longer hang out; my once private backyard now vistas a humongous house and barking dogs. The house built was not the one proposed. Neighbors believe it is an eye-sore. ■ It ruined our view, less privacy, wetland was filled in and habitat for animals damaged. I think it is a fire risk. I think approving this kind of building is i�responsible! There were a lot of trees destroyed. ■ As much as I think it was okay for them to do it, the house is kind of a monstrosity and wrecked our view. ■ More traffic. ■ Noise, trees being cut down, less deer. ■ Even scrubby understory has value in terms of birds, bugs, critters, etc. Too bad one lot could not have been maintained as "wild". I also expect run-off issues with rain snow to worsen with more homes...more impervious surfaces are BAD. Also, I feel bad for the people right next door. I'd feel screwed if I were them. More speeders too! ■ Didn't realize new homes would be so tall. Lot of dust and di�t, but I realize this is part of construction. (They did try to water and clean up Parker whenever they could.) ■ Again, really too soon for full evaluation. Impacts on runoff/flooding to neighboring properties will not be known till construction/landscaping is complete and spring runoff/siimmer rains occur. Impacts to wildlife, however, were evident as soon as land clearing began. Wildlife (deer, etc.) are now barred from accessing wetlands/open spaces from the west. Width passages/corridors blocked, deer are now being seen on streets and in yards more. Roseville should explore wildlife corridors and corridor set-aside width splits to insure a 15' to 20' corridor along the south edge of the split would have helped. ■ Short-term=noisy. Long-term=Loss of natural habitat to wildlife; quality of extended neighborhood suffered with loss of mature trees & buffer zone; low home-per-acre density. ■ All the trees, bushes were pulled out, grass plowed under on the 3 3/4 acres of land. Not environmentally good - animals, birds were displaced. Shame on Mayor Clausing and all the council members who voted for this development. ■ Reduction of trees, bi�d life, some drainage issues are apparent - but too early to tell. ■ Loss of privacy. Increased noise (traffic & construction). • Ugly� ■ The scale of the houses is too large. They don't fit the neighborhood. And we have another driveway di�ectly onto Hamline. ■ People on Hamliiie have already had two hu�ge parties with 100+ people, loud music, alcohol, etc. Also they all built fences and that kills flow of backyards. ■ Lights from the house facing Hamline shine into my bedroom, as do heacllights from cars exiting the driveway. Almost constantly, 3 cars are parked outside and a garbage container sits outside 24/7. This is the view from my �lL�lLUU l 1)r� 3 of 5