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Tim Gladhill, Deputy City Administrator <br />Ramsey City Hall,7550 Sunwood Dr. NW <br />Ramsey, MN. 55303 <br />Dear Mr. Gladhill, <br />In response to your notification that I have the opportunity to respond to your mailing regarding what I <br />want in my backyard ... Riverstone South. I do not support a second connection to Bowers Drive. <br />1. Believing that the people who bought lots and built homes without knowing that there was a <br />possibility the city would put a road between their homes to access Bowers Drive, seems unfair <br />to the residents in the two homes on either side of the "emergency entrance" proposed to <br />Bowers Drive. <br />2. Headlights aimed at the homes directly across Bowers Drive from that entrance invades the <br />privacy of those residences. <br />3. Opening up the entrance to 243 residences will create more traffic on our street which has <br />already been the case because of the Capstone addition making it less safe for residents of <br />Bowers to walk because of the speed of many of those vehicles. Monday is garbage pick up on <br />Bowers Drive and there are already many garbage trucks speeding back out of Bowers Drive <br />which I assume would increase even more if that access were open to Riverstone South. <br />4. None of the agencies who are promoting the emergency entrance live on Bowers Drive. I do, <br />and I've lived here for 56 years. We've had very few emergencies on Bowers Drive during that <br />time and I don't believe the length of the street has ever been hazardous for emergency <br />vehicles. <br />5. One of the advantages to those of us who reside on Bowers Drive is that we know the <br />neighborhood and our residents. Either those using Bowers Drive know where they are or are <br />lost. Please don't give in to the myth that an expensive road connecting the proposed addition <br />to Bowers Drive would benefit the residents of Bowers Drive. 1 don't believe it would. In the <br />event of an emergency, not having any in probably. over 60 years, if a tree blocked the road, <br />nearly every household owns a chain saw. That speaks for itself. I've always felt safe here, <br />basically because of the dead -end road. If anyone or anything looks suspicious, someone <br />notices and will report it. <br />6. Bowers Drive owners use the street to walk their dogs and exercise themselves. Opening it up <br />with free access to 240 more households will bring more dogs and people using the street for <br />exercise. Visit Bowers Drive in the winter when you see how yellow the snow is in our entrance <br />to our driveways and along the road let alone the leavings of the dogs by our plowed out mail <br />boxes. Not everyone carries a bag to pick up after their pets. And you want to give access to <br />240 more households to access our street for the purpose of relieving their animals. No <br />Thanks!!!! <br />7. If you would, please consider how opening up this entrance to benefit 240 more households, <br />and how it would affect those who are residents who bought or built here were influenced by <br />