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Dear Chloe, <br />Thanks for keeping Mark and I in the loop of this upcoming meeting on Thursday. We will be on <br />the call. I really appreciate all you've been doing on our behalf and letting us have input. I'm <br />writing because we want you and all decision makers serving on our behalf in Ramsey, to know <br />our stand on this proposed application for the Hunt and Trott Brooke properties. Everyone I've <br />spoken with in the Golden Eagle Estates area - via dropping off flyers letting people know what <br />is being applied for - via Ramsey's community Facebook page and anyone I pass while out <br />walking and others who live around here who would be affected by this development all share <br />the same concerns. No one wants this application approved or this type of housing <br />development out here. It certainly will not help our property values to go up nor our taxes to go <br />down. <br />The more I look at the map of what is being applied for and proposed just doesn't make sense <br />for this area. When you look you see a visual of all of the 2-10 acre Tots, (depending on where you <br />live along Variolite Street north of Alpine Blvd, those of us who live in Golden Eagle Estates and/or along 175th <br />heading to Nowthen Blvd. and looking north and south from the corner of 175th and Nowthen), all you see are <br />properties with homes that are 1 to 2 acres and larger — everywhere you turn. Then I look at <br />what this developer wants to put in and it reminds me of a fungus or a destructive ground cover <br />that is trying to takeover where it doesn't belong. That is what comes to mind when I look at the <br />map and see these beautiful existing large Tots where people out here are living. <br />We need to keep rural areas rural! Was that not the original 20 year plan for <br />Ramsey? Rezoning to smaller lots does not fit out here and it does NOT make sense to bring <br />the condensed style neighborhoods out this far. With all of the people that I know have been <br />calling and emailing in their opposition to this rezoning application, my question is this: What is <br />preventing the Ramsey Planning Commission from declining it? Just say no. Honestly, we feel <br />that 1+ acre lot sizes for the Hunt & Trott Brooke properties would be more fitting and have <br />much more appeal to those who are looking to get out of the urban setting and have some <br />space in which to build their home. That's what is to great about living out here. <br />If people want smaller, condensed more urban type homes and townhomes, they have lots of <br />options along Hwy.10 in and around Ramsey City Center & it appears to me that there are more <br />homes being built every day out in that area with the plan to build even more. There is no need <br />to bring all of that out here. We do not want it nor do we feel that it is in the best interest of <br />those of us who live out here (in and around the Hunt & Trott Brooke properties) to change our <br />whole environment for the City of Ramsey Planners or City Council to even consider rezoning <br />the lot sizes out here and allowing a development such as the one being proposed. <br />Thank you again, Chloe. Please forward this email to all concerned. Much appreciated. <br />Sincerely, <br />Mark and Jill Winger <br />7610 — 168t" Ave NW <br />Ramsey, MN <br />