Agenda - Planning Commission - 09/05/2002

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..i want to develop it. We are the peopie living on our property. We don't want to develop our propertT/, t don't want a dead end road that will be there for people to see. I don't want people to get the wrong idea and think that this dead end road will e~entually go through, because I won't let that happen. That land would be so better used by purring in some trees with wood chips around it. So, please take that section of the road out of the plans. Taking it out Will affect riO one, but l.lS. Since I have starred writing this letter, I have talked to the developer. I understand now'that this is a city road. T also understand that it is the City of Ramsey that wants this entire triangle of property to be developed into town homes. We feel like the city is forcing us out. I also understand that these town homes are going to be part of an association with a communiw, area. Wqaat is a city. road doing in a project like th/s? If I were a homeowner in a town home development tike this, I wouldn't want a city road going into our development. I heard from the developer that the city. of Ramsey is refusing permission to have 16 town homes in one building, t a~ee. That is putting too many people in Our area and it is also putting buildings that are too different from what is around us. That sounds like an apartment building to me. In addition to all of these changes, are you aware that Sun.fish Lake Blvd. is going to be repaved this summer and it is getting made 4 feet narrower than it was (each shoulder is .going to be made 2 feet narrower)? I have mLxed feelings about it becoming narrower: I get so tired of people passing on the shoulders. With a narrower road, they won't be able to pass on the shoulder an,vmore. However, there are a lot of bikers, joggers and walkers that use that shoulder. The speed limit is 55 m.p.h. I am a.fi-aid that someone will be hurt or ldlled. There is a fitness facility (Health Quest) on SunXlsh Lake Blvd. A lot of members jog up and down our road. County Road 1 I6 is already too narrow for joggers or bikers. You are proposing a development that will place another 150 homes and you are g-tying them access to Sun_fish Lake Boulevard, a curvy., hilly road that has lira/ted visibility., a 55 m.p.h, speed limit and low lying areas. A heavy fog often settles in these low-lying areas making this a fairly dangerous road. New crossroads are being created to exacerbate the problems. I can't begin to tell you the dozens of close calls I 'have had driving on this road because of people mining out onto Sun.tlsh Lake Blvd. There are a lot ofbtind spots where these roads have gone in. A situation is being created where people will be killed. Now, the county, is making the road narrower and the city of Ramsey plans on accepting a proposal that will put possibly 300 more cars on this road during rush hour (assuming 2 drivers per expensive town home, that will probably require both people to work). Remember that these people are not seniors and they are not yet retired. So, there could still be adult children at home. So, 300 cars is probably a conservative number.., think about what you are doing here. Perhaps enforcing the seniors only policy would help to eliminate some p0t'enriaJ traffic problems. We were originally told that these town homes were being developed for seniors. According to the developer, this is not the case. These town homes are now being marketed for whomever can afford them. ~ would like you to put yourselves in our shoes and try.. to think how you would feel if a road went in, that ended at your fence tine. I am afraid that if the town home owners see this road that ends at our fence, that they will get the idea into their heads that they want a road going through i I I I I I I I I 54