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Mounds View Planning Commission May 4, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 7 ________________________________________________________________________ Fern Arvidson of 2833 Sherwood Road said she is opposed to this as it is too much for the area. Chair Stevenson closed the public hearing at 7:41 p.m. Commissioner Zwirn indicated that the developer has done some work to purchase more property to obtain the necessary three acres for the PUD but, after hearing the testimony of the neighbors, they have all talked about the access situation and that is the primary concern is for traffic flow and to make this viable he thinks the developer needs to address an additional access or eliminate some of the housing to appease the community and address the concerns about privacy with the way the townhomes are laid out so they are not looking into peoples’ backyards. He added that he thinks this would be a good development in this area but it needs to have another access. Commissioner Zwirn asked if the developer is amenable to addressing those issues. Mr. Bourassa indicated they are willing to work on the privacy issues and can meet with City Staff and/or neighbors individually. He said that with respect to the access issues what he heard is for a potential access onto Groveland through that lot on 8060 but they are not proposing that. Commissioner Zwirn asked if there is a way to work this so there is an additional access. The developer indicated the only access that he could see would be on Groveland. Commissioner Scotch commented that this is difficult because if you put commercial on Highway 10 a lot of people do not want commercial backed up to residential. She believes there is too much for this site and maybe there could be some other options. Mr. Bourassa indicated the original plan considered commercial on that piece in the SE corner of the parcel but with the required setbacks the potential for commercial development is the size of a twin home and after working with Staff on this they thought a residential PUD would be more amenable. Commissioner Scotch suggested removing some townhomes to make more space on the inside of the development and suggested looking at some type of access on the other side of the pond. Chair Stevenson said he does not see how this is in conjunction with plans for the Comprehensive Plan that the City has had all along. Commissioner Miller agreed that this would really shut off any other possible commercial developments along Highway 10 and some of the residents have indicated that going back to the original plan having commercial along Highway 10 would not happen if this plan were to go through.