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Mounds View Planning Commission April 15, 1998 Special Meeting Page 9 continue without the Highway 10 access. Mr. Cunningham concurred. He added there are currently two adjacent property owners that have not reached some type of settlement with the developer on behalf of Walgreens. Carol Arel, 7750 Greenwood Drive, made the following statement: "I've prepared some remarks. So I would appreciate not being interrupted and just allowed to say what I have to say. As you all know I have stood up at many of these meeting before, along with other residents of Mounds View. And, although,I maybe only one of the few residents you hear from tonight,I'm asking you to consider many other Mounds View residents that are not here tonight. The residents that I'm asking you to consider are the residents that are unaware of the plans being made to change the Comprehensive Plan prior to completion of public hearings on the plan. There are residents who have not had their awareness raised to this issue as of yet, due to the continuing nature of the talks on the Comprehensive Plan. I'm asking the Planning Commission to follow the path that you began to lay out at the • meeting two weeks ago, which is to pass a recommendation denying the changes to the Comprehensive Plan. I ask that you don't let an unfortunate situation of the two week delay due to an inadequately prepared denial proposal stop you from, what I believe you saw, as the right course of action two weeks ago. The City of Mounds View, and the Planning Commission in particular, have heard what the residents of the City are asking you to do as officials of the City in connection with the Comprehensive plan, and these were at prior meetings of the Comprehensive--the Comprehensive Plan meetings. And that is not to zone commercial property next to R-1 residential property. This is a community issue setting a dangerous precedent, in my opinion. And it is not just a personal issue to the adjacent property owners. I'm standing before you as a concerned member of the community, who has refused thus far,to be pressured into a last-minute agreement with the developer. Because I still believe that community and the good of the people in the community should come first. I, for one, want to teach my children that they can still grow up in a society where people think of each other, not in a society where the "me first attitude", expressed in prior meetings, is the norm. I want my kids to know that if they elect responsible officials, and work within the processes with those officials, it's likely that a reasonable resolution will be reached. • And since Mr. Cunningham has brought up the agreements,I'd like to specifically refer to a couple of things connected to the agreements: