Agenda - Planning Commission - 06/23/2022

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From: Danielle Holder To: Brian Hagen;Chris Anderson Subject: Planning Commission Meeting May 26th Public Hearing PACT charter school Date: Thursday,May 26,2022 3:44:52 PM To: Whom it may concern: Please add this to the comments for tonight's meeting; I am writing this letter as a request for the planning commission to not move forward with the Preliminary Plat or Final Plat for the proposal to build the PACT charter school on the Northeast corner of Variolite Street and 161 st Avenue. This plan is not complete and if the City of Ramsey is going to allow this area to be rezoned and an oversized school be built the very least they can do for its residents is to wait to move forward on the preliminary plat until there is no longer any conditions that need to be met and the planning is complete. As you know the neighborhood that will be impacted by this development believes that there has been insufficient study on the detrimental effects on the surrounding houses. The plans need significant revisions to comply with local standards and numerous Minnesota State standards have not even been addressed. In addition to this the potential for the school to create a legal nuisance to the surrounding community. Although the city staff have determined that the standards comply with the arbitrary decision to use B1 bulk standards on this property as that is what was used for the Elementary school built in the city. The two lots are very different in size and the type of school is very different. First of all the size of the schools are significantly the same but there is a large buffer. Although this has been brought up in prior meetings the size of the Hvac unit on the roof of the school and the accompanying constant noise will be an issue. Similar units require a very large buffer for it to not be considered noise pollution under the MPCA standards. This has not been addressed. The PA system in the stadium has not been studied to determine if it falls under the city noise ordinance. Even if the City chooses not to enforce its rule it can fall under the State standards for noise pollution. Currently staff has chosen to state that an attempt to mitigate the damage is voluntary. The applicant and the City need to address this. The light study as well claims there will be no light trespass to adjoining homes however even the light study states that additional strategies should be taken to mitigate the light trespass. The numbers for the lighting are only shown to the border of the applicant's property and those numbers are not zero. A city enforce ban on lighting on work nights and past a certain time frame should be enforced if lighting is allowed at all. Additional research should be made into State standards for light pollution prior to allowing the lighting in the stadium.