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Honorable Mayor, City Council Members, Todd and Gail Hagen Planning Commission Chair and Members 52 East Little Canada Road Little Canada City Hall Little Canada, MN 55117 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, MN 55117 November 22, 1991 Re: Property along north -side of Round Lake in the City of Little Canada, Minnesota Dear Members of the City Council and Planning Commission: This letter is in rebuttal to the Thursday, October 10, 1991 Little Canada Planning Commission meeting which we attended in connection with the above referenced matter. It was our understanding this meeting was held to discuss, among other things, the future of the land lying between Round Lake and Little Canada Road, west of the Soo Line Railroad. We attended said meeting because we are one of ten (10) affected property owners. We feel the Planning Commission's recommendation of rezoning our property to Park /Open Space or Planned Unit Development in "100 years" was sarcastically premature to say the least. According to Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.357, Subdivision 3, a public hearing must be held which, among other things, requires published and mailed notice to all affected property owners so they may be heard. We found out about the meeting by calling City Hall, hence we were the only property owners in attendance. We would like to make ourselves clear that we are against any rezoning that will threaten the salability and market valuation of our property. We feel the City, in its attempt to rezone the area, is trying to undermine the "Undue hardship" intent of Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.357, Subdivision 6 (2), by making it almost impossible for those who need to perform extensive renovations to or rebuild their property outside the literal provisions of the ordinance, to do so. We feel it is very unfair to make us suffer for a problem the City itself created. To blame any of this on the property owners and the constant questioning of us as to why we bought this property is cruel beyond belief. The Commission's "Red flag" attempt at protecting other prospective buyers from purchasing our property seems to be unfair targeting. If the City is serious about Park /Open Space zoning, we feel it is their responsibility to buy everyone out at once. We cannot stress enough that the City should cherish the property along the north -side of Round Lake and encourage its further single- family development as was the south -side a few years ago. We perceive our property as part of the block around the Lake and have nothing to do with the commercial land across the road. We would like to note that our homes were in the area before the Road and the commercial development. Page 1