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at the church site would create an additional burden to the roads. Some things to consider are add larger buffer area, smaller building, access only through Variolite and safety study as to the traffic effects on Variolite and 161" avenue as well as surrounding roads. The stadium in the backyards should not be allowed to have lighting that close to the residential dwelling and have limitation on the hours and number of times per year that they can host large events. Requiring some flagging whenever a large volume of traffic is anticipated such as arrival times and dismissal times for the school and the church with the cost borne by the party that causes it to be necessary. Also, it should be verified that the sound intrusion to the adjoining property owners will have sufficient buffers if a stadium is built so as not to form a nuisance from any PA or crowd or ancillary devices the crowd brings. The residents of this community have a right to enjoy their property free from excessive intrusion into their daily life even if the city rezones. As a resident across from the large events in the park, I can also speak to the disruption this puts on normal use of my property and ability to sleep when the floodlights are on until 10p.m. and throughout the night when they forget to turn them off. Not to mentions the shouting air horns and sirens. The traffic also poses a danger entering and exiting my driveway when a large number of vehicles are arriving for an event at Central Park. These events already pose a traffic issue on the road. Even if the road is upgraded it will not change the number of vehicles traveling on the road and therefor will not make it safer. This rezoning will just increase traffic. The residents of this neighborhood have to bear the disruption of expansion of central park and its accompanying traffic swarms during events held at the park and noise and light pollution from the park. The city is considering rezoning a parcel that is zoned residential for a school to be built. The residents of this neighborhood will then be subject to additional days per year of traffic swarms on the residential street and additional noise, light and environmental pollution. The school being proposed would be built on a parcel that is too small to provide any buffer to the residential properties and there is no mitigation that would be sufficient to handle the traffic if the school was built at this size when compared to other similar schools in the area while accounting for scale. The effects of this project and sufficient controls on the scope have not been studied sufficiently to safeguard the rights of the public and adjoining property owners and the safety of the existing residents. The adjoining owners are now going to suffer significantly more negative effects than other similarly situation residents where properties have been rezoned for this purpose. We as a community may want to have a school built but first we need to know if this location can sustain that development without a significant outlay of public resources to keep up with the safety challenges this location brings. This rezoning is not appropriate until it can be shown that the upgrades can keep up with the proposed use, that the city has funds to keep up with the upgrades. It should also be estimated how much the infrastructure upgrades for this use will cost the taxpayers and weather they can be completed by the time the building is opened. I am urging the Planning Commission to recommend denying this permit pending additional study. I am further urging those of you with a connection to PACT to separate your desire for an expansion to PACT focus on the appropriateness of this rezoning application and remove yourself from voting on this application. This isn't a case about weather a school is a good thing but weather this is the right thing for the City of Ramsey and its residents to rezone this parcel. Sincerely Jeffrey Lubarski 7826 161" Avenue NW Ramsey MN 55303