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From: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br />Date: <br />Alec Holmes <br />)on Sevald <br />Woodale Apartments <br />Friday, November 11, 2022 1:31:13 PM <br />Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. <br />Jon. <br />I would like to express my thoughts on the proposed contract to build a 140 unit apartment complex in the <br />southwest quadrant of Hwy 10. <br />In the effort to keep this respectful, I do not believe anyone in the proximity to this proposal would want to <br />see it built. The fact is that those of us who have moved to Mounds View, bought a single dwelling home <br />in suburbia, did so for a reason. I have watched my street on Greenfield be cut off, and the neighborhood <br />"feel" changed as now I see a three story mega apartment complex in front of Moe's every night when I <br />come home. It doesn't fit in. <br />I reject the wishes of those involved to amend the single family zoning. It is (was) there for a reason, <br />although it seems that it is waved on a consistent basis to appeal to either the developer or Ramsey <br />County in order to continue to make a tax base at the detriment of the neighborhood construct. <br />I chose to buy a house on a street that could have afforded four more single family dwellings, which <br />would have made sense because that's what the neighborhood is. But of course that wasn't what <br />happened. And now the City of Mounds View wants to encroach on any plot of land left available and <br />build more of the same, which will have to include low rent opportunities per the Ramsey County <br />guidelines (perhaps its State of MN or Federal at this point?), correct? <br />There is no way that this in the best interest of anyone living in the neighborhood and I am getting sick <br />and tired of having to deal with the business aspect coming before the citizenry that chooses to live here. <br />The City of Mounds View should be here to guard the quality of life for their people, the town. Instead it is <br />an avenue in which to foist upon everyone the wishes of a few. Having some undeveloped plots of land <br />is, contrary to the notion of today, not illegal and helps keep a more natural feel to the area, is that not <br />something that is considered anymore? <br />Alec Holmes <br />