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Mr. Michael Constant September 16, 1997 Page Two R -BR district, which is coterminous with the Business Reserve area designated on the City's Comprehensive Plan, a business area. 3. City Strategy The City has adopted a careful phasing strategy to both ensure the R -BR district is developed for business use, and to ensure the business development, when it occurs, is done in an efficient and prescribed sequence. This two level strategy to ensure a diverse and balanced community at some time in the future places great and continuing restrictions on the present permitted use and marketability, and therefore value, of the properties in the R -BR district. Recognizing the effect of the present restrictions, and the importance the City has assigned to eventual business development of the area in the R -BR district, we believe the City as it recently (July 1997) adopted a comprehensive amendment to its sign regulations identified the R -BR district as the only zoning district in the City where advertising signs would be allowed. The visibility of the advertising signs now will mark this district as a business district, and the income from the signs will provide a slight offset for the restrictions on development imposed by the City's strategy for use of this area. Again, we request the Department respect the municipality's designation of the R -BR district as a business area appropriate for the location of advertising signs. Mike, as always we appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to better understand MNDOT's concerns in this area, and to allow us to expand on our understanding of the situation. I will be calling to arrange a time we can meet to discuss this. Thanks Michael Cronin cc: Mr. Chris McCarver Universal Outdoor, Inc.