Minutes - Planning Commission - 04/01/1997 - Public Hearing @ 8:36

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one additional trips can be anticipated on 157th Lane; an additional 66 trips per day can be expected on 160th Lane, Sodium Street north of 158th Lane, and on 158th Lane, west of Radium Street. The report also notes that 24 trips per day from the Hall's Dover Acres subdivision will be diverted through the Apple Ridge subdivision. The minimum lot size requirement is 10,800 square feet - the average lot size proposed in Apple Ridge is 15,932 square feet. The average lot size on those lots abutting the rural development to the west and north is 19,665 square feet. The lot widths or depths on the six lots along the west plat boundary are the same as the adjacent rural lots. The Park Commission has recommended that park dedication consist of a cash payment which would be utilized to acquire property for a district park. Rick Hasbrook, 6040 Radium Circle NW, Ramsey, stated that he heard mention of Good Value Homes paying for a park somewhere else and inquired as to where the kids will play. He said he does not want traffic going by his house. His wife runs a daycare center and they do not want the additional traffic. Mr. Hasbrook stated that the City cannot give Good Value Homes approval with what they don't know right now. This case should be tabled. Teri Svare, 6015 - 158th Lane NW, Ramsey, stated that she does not believe that the proposed preliminary plat is based on the sketch plan that Council most recently was provided. She stated that John Peterson was asked to make the neighborhood less dense on the west, and he did that, but she questioned whether they were 10 feet deep, or what? Traffic impact is an issue she stated. She noted that he has not made the lots larger that border on her property. She was also of the understanding that the T.H. #47 access was supposed to be permanent. She disagreed with the traffic analysis report in that she didn't feel any of the Hall's Dover Acres residents would travel through Apple Ridge to get out to T.H. #47 because of the traffic congestion in that area. She was also of the understanding that there was supposed to be a breakaway entrance from Hall's Dover Acres into Apple Ridge. Green space is a huge issue. There is no place for kids to play. There are some things we feel should be changed and we don't feel this design is acceptable yet. She pointed out that Mr. John Peterson of Good Value Homes spoke out earlier this evening on the grading and mining permit public hearing for Thomas Kurak. She wanted Mr. Peterson to know that just as he had concerns for the effect of that project on property owned by Good Value Homes, the residents of Hall's Dover Acres have the same feelings and concerns about the effect of Apple Ridge on their neighborhood. She stated that this proposed development is a problem for them and the people are saying the same thing that he said to Mr. Kurak during that grading and mining permit public hearing. Ms. Svare said she is a school teacher and she currently has 32 children in her classroom and she wants to know where all the children from Apple Ridge are going to go to school as classrooms are to capacity now. Commissioner Deemer stated that to say access to T.H. #47 is temporary might be a matter of semantics. The Highway Department may decide for a service road for that whole stretch along T.H. #47 so direct access to the pavement of what is now laid out as T.H. #47 is always temporary. Robert Miller, 15916 St. Francis Boulevard NW., Ramsey, noted that the stub road on the north plat boundary of the proposed Apple Ridge, which is designed to be a future through street to the north, will only go through if the City condemns his property and he doesn't feel that will happen. It is unrealistic to think that the road will go north. Planning Commission/Public Hearing/Apple Ridge/April 1, 1997 Page 2 of 9