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Also, I feel the residents have been given short shrift in the investigation process -ie, 1. city staff not looking at the proposal and siting from the residence side as well as the business side (I note that he did not talk with residents near the St. Paul facility he visited, either); 2. not considering the seriousness of the economic impact on our properties. Mr. Lloyd's response to a Commissioner's question on why staff didn't build in a "trigger" number of complaints from residents that would shut the kennel down shows unbelievable disrespect for the residents. He said the reason was that staff (plural) felt that the residents might abuse it and complain about nothing just to shut the kennel down! This represents an appalling lack of good faith in the residents, and, frankly, a de facto negation of the whole intent of citizen input. Although this stated staff belief certainly explains a lot of the problems this neighborhood has suffered over the years, I find it a shocking statement! ECONOMIC HARM: I was too rattled to mention it, but there has been demonstrable economic harm to our property values due to non- enforcement of codes. One year, three Rose Place residence owners appealed our assessments to Ramsey County. The basis for the appeal was the mess behind us due to non enforcement of codes in the factory /warehouse property. Two were granted lower taxes; the third, who had made notable improvements on his home since the previous assessment, did not have his taxes lowered (or raised -the improvements cancelled out the probable devaluation). Therefore, an outside entity has validated our concerns re value decline when codes supposedly protecting residential properties on a light industry interface are not enforced. In addition, resident Eric Sorenson has had his house on the market since June. It would be easy to attribute this to the sluggish market. However, the comment cards from prospective buyers consistently list the unscreened view of the warehouse as the reason they don't make an offer. Per my comments in the Planning Commission meeting, despite complaints from the neighborhood for over 20 years about the evergreen screening on the south border of industry property declining, the first young replacement trees were planted behind my house in autumn 2009. More have been planted since, but were at least 5 -10 years away from real screening. I hope Eric can sell his house before then. That tree example is only one of the reasons this neighborhood is concerned about how quickly the City will handle any problems that may arise from the kennel. The fact that Brian said that any possible complaints that arose would be handled by the Roseville Police, and there was no plan for mitigating them through one of the City departments, is another reason for concern. Sincerely, Molly Redmond and Steve Ring 1455 Rose Place 651- 633 -2743 Additional Information: 3