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Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. ®® Attachment A From: Kris Williams [mailto:kwilliams@erincos.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:00 PM To; rvcompplan@lists.metro-inet.us Cc: Jamie Radel Subject: Roseville Comprehensive Plan -Comments for tonight's meeting on utilities We have had intermittent power problems over the 3 years we have lived at 1106 Oakcrest Avenue (southwest corner of Oakcrest at Lexington). Although we knew we had an easement (actually 2 of them -transmission tines over khe property, pipeline under the property) we didn't expect it to be a major issue. The only major (being multiple hours) outage we have had was in mid August of 2006. My son was severely jaundiced and was on a biliblanket (special light blanket used to treat jaundice) 24 hours a day for the first 2 and a half weeks of his life. My power went out late in the evening and I called Xcel. They told me that my power was not out. I told them that I was standing on Lexington between County Road C and County Road B2 and could see no lights at least up to Woodhill on Lexington and that the entire neighborhood was without power. We went back and forth over the course of an hour and they told me it was going to be at least 4-6 hours before my power would go back on (although, luckily it didn't take that long). However, we have brownouts once a month or so (more often in the summer) where the power will flicker or dim (or even go out for a second or two). We have also had brief outages due to storms. It definitely seems excessive to us as we have not had this problem in former residences in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Regarding other utilities, the Qwest service in Roseville is subpar (I had multiple problems with their Internet crashing when we had it). I much prefer Comcast (even though the prices are higher). Regarding transmission lines (although I don't know if the Comp Plan is addressing this) -this is another story entirely. Short version - in April or May of 2006, we had a note placed on our door that Xcel was going to remove the tree that was about 30 yards from the transmission tower because it was interfering with transmission. We called the company that was supposed to remove the tree. We asked why they wanted to remove it (it was not touching the tower or the lines}. He could not give me a reason so I attempted to contact Xcel. I spoke with a Brad there who told me that the tree was going to interfere with the lines. We informed him that the tree was a Linden Ash that was genetically engineered to grow no higher than 20 feet (we measured it, it was only about 16 feet tall at the time). It was specifically planted there after the Roseville tornado because it would not interfere with the lines. He said that he would come out and take a look at it. He never did. We spoke with other people at Xcel that told us the tree did not need to be removed. The company that did the removal used an ATV to drag 5-6 foot sections of the pine trees in the neighbor's yard through our yard a few days before my baby shower. They destroyed my yard (I have pictures) and we had to fight with Xcel to get it fixed even though repairs are required by the easement (they did not do a very good job -they raked the area, and threw down some grass seed). They ended up taking the tree anyway -they would not discuss the issue or replace it with another tree. I heard that they wanted to clear cut around the lines through Central Park as well. There is some confusion at Xcel about what the requirements around the transmission lines even are -Brad told us 50 feet from the outside lines, Xcel management in Texas told us that it was a straight line down from the outside line. We have also had an issue with BP -they were working on the pipeline that runs parallel to our property. They had a vehicle on my property. I went out to inform them of it and they told me they