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From: maavett To: Jon Sevald Subject: Woodale Apartment Date: Monday, December 5, 2022 4:11:03 PM Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. Dear Mounds View City Council Members and City Admin, As you know a lot of the neighborhood was at the 11/28/22 meeting and expressed a desire to not proceed with the Rezoning and Woodale apartment development project. I saw many of you were getting overwhelmed with the repeated disapproval of this plan. I applaud you for staying awake and holding out to the agony of the testimony as it did repeat and many shared the same issues. We as a community really do not want this project to proceed as it is way too big for the property and is a blight to the community. As many shared there are so many others building projects in progress that take the place of this one. So far you have made changes to this community that have changed it to be unsafe for travel and walking on streets around this neighborhood including woodale street. I have been in communication about the speed and traffic on woodale for several years now and have emails that it will get better but to date it has not and proposed signs for speed have been delayed and police patrols have not occurred as they are busy with the other projects that have been developed. (Per police chief) As staff admitted this development in all rights should have been a 50 unit development if it were zoned at reality uses. Do not make the mistake as the MV legal stated if it gets approved for PUD it will be very hard to change back and will require the city council to make an effort to change it at a cost and effort to the city. Once a PUD is approved it will be very hard to change back. This at best should be considered an R4 development since it is truly an apartment development and with all of the 7 plus variances requested to the PUD before it is even rezoned is absurd to consider. Variances to any resident would require a hardship and yet the developer has no hardships at all since they do not even own the property it is under a purchase agreement to date and does not have full funding as of this meeting. This is not a consideration since no hardship exists for this property rezoning should not be considered especially when not fully funded prior to rezoning. The facts are the developer wants this to go forward at the community's expense of all issues you heard at the last meeting. The consideration to remove all but 2 of the older trees and replace them with less than half the amount required by city zoning and then expect the community to wait 54 years for them to grow to size is wrong. Would you grant all these approvals if this were a private citizen and residential property requesting all of these variances to redevelop their property? The answer is NO you would notes So do not fall to this request and say NO to this development and rezoning request. With the city rezoning this it goes against the long term comprehensive plan and we ask how many times will the council continue to make all of these exceptions as you have already done this several time to our neighborhood. You have also made our area very dangerous according to the fire chief as it no longer has the 2 essential egress routes to the area now with Greenfield closed. We already see Allina ambulances using in neighborhood route to make egress routes faster than using MV Blvd as traffic is way too busy for them so into and through the residential is what they chose to use (Not desirable and many have spoke out to this and they continue to use the neighborhood route even through the school zone from Woodale around Edgewood to Co. Rd. H).