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Page 1 o f 1 <br />Cathy Bennett _ <br />From: jrgray <br />Sent: Monday, November28,2005 3.34 PM <br />To: Cathy Bennett <br />Cc: Darroll Sk€fling <br />Subject: Rental Housing - <br />Dear Cathy Bennett <br />Roseville Housing and RedevelopmentAuthority <br />651-792-7C�'� 5 <br />cathv.bennett a ci.roseville.rr�n.us <br />Suburban Blight Is Creeping Into Roseville <br />How do you recognize it? It is a single family dwelling in a residential neighborhood surrounded by parked automobiles. The <br />cars are on the driveway, in the street and often on the lawn. Garages are not used for cars, because it is too much trouble to <br />move cars in the driveway that block cars in the garage. Four to seven cars are parked there day and night all year round. They <br />interfere with snow plows, street sweepers, mail trucks, garbage trucks, etc. <br />What is the root cause of the problem? Single family homes were not designed for rental property use. They do not have <br />adequate provisions for multiple automobiles. They do not meet the requirements of the State of Minnesota Uniform Fire Code. <br />Sleeping rooms do not have the means for rapid egress in case of fire, especially when bedrooms are on the second floor or in <br />the basement. <br />Noise is sometimes a problem, depending on the renters involved. All in all, these rental single family homes are an eyesore <br />that reduce the property values of the surrour�ding homes. <br />Recommendations: <br />�} Write city codes which prohibit the parked-careyesores described above. Apply the Uniform Fire Code rigorously to rental <br />single family dwellings. <br />2) Define a new zoning ordinance R-!-HO, for Residential Single Family Dwellings, Homestead Only that would prohibit <br />rentals entirely. The R-9-HO Zoning would be invoked if say 80% of the residents in a neighborhood request it. <br />Sincerely yours, <br />�1�rn�s R Gra� <br />F��rs�rr ��c, '�ra � ti,,1 � <br />11}� B��Q�S <br />