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Dear Ramsey City Council members, <br />Our names are Jeff and Laura Uecker and we have lived at 17121 Variolite St NW in Ramsey <br />since November of 1995. We moved out to Ramsey for the wide-open spaces, and currently live <br />on about 10 acres of land. We have enjoyed the rustic feel and privacy that the Ramsey living <br />community has provided. However, the area we live in has transitioned from a rural preserve to <br />rural residential which, from our perspective, is unfortunate. <br />Given the direct proximity of our home to the proposed development we suspect it is the <br />property most negatively impacted by this project, though it seems many of our city's other <br />citizens feel they will be also be impacted and have expressed their opposition based on the <br />number of signs and petitions that are circulating. The sketch plan we have seen deliberately <br />maximizes the number of 55-foot lots along our property line and does not match the spirit of <br />Ramsey's rural area. Allowing 55 and 65 lots only benefits the developer's profit margin while <br />destroying the character of the neighborhood which we, along with so many of our neighbors, <br />originally moved here for. The wildlife in the area such as deer, foxes, wild turkeys and <br />endangered Blanding' s turtles will be only be more negatively impacted by increasing the lot <br />density as they will be pushed out of the area during the massive amount of construction and <br />continually disrupted with the significant increase in traffic. <br />We strongly encourage you to keep the existing zoning laws in place and to not allow any 55 or <br />65-foot lots. We also strongly encourage you to require the full density buffer zone. <br />Sincerely, <br />Jeff and Laura Uecker <br />17121 Variolite St NW <br />