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June 14, 2007 Michael Grochala Community Development Director 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes MN 55014 Dear Mr. Grochala Subject: Call for Hearing on Improvements for Shenandoah Area As a long time resident of the Shenandoah area I attended the June 11, 2007 City Council meeting to learn the status of the proposal for improvements to our area. I was pleased to learn that the City has not forgotten our area entirely and chose to move forward with the resolution. However, I suspect it will be met with the same lack of enthusiasm, as had the previous proposal when it comes time for people to vote on the proposed improvements. Should this not pass I would hope that your Department would come up with a contingency for improving the streets in this area. In particular the streets from Tomahawk and west toward Ware Road are in particularly bad condition. We had some slight improvements to the east a few years ago so our road is a bit more serviceable. But in general the appearance and condition of our roads is poor and getting worse each year. This lack of maintenance affects the overall appearance of the area and gives the feeling that we are somehow second class as compared to adjacent areas that had high gnaiity roads put. in the first place and are maintained routinely as well. It will be interesting to see how the hearings go on this, but I suspect in the end the proposal as written will not gain sufficient backing to allow improvements to go forward as the resulting assessments will be rather high and there appears to be little support city- wide for road or other improvements (unless you live in that area). I look forward to hearing what plans the City may have for trying to improve our roads, should the proposal not be supported. Feel free to share this letter with the Council. Steven Heiskary 572 Arrowhead Court Lino Lakes