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Good evening, I am writing to participate in your community engagement regarding the development of Lowry Grove - I am a resident of St Anthony Village. I seem to have missed the meetings with community engagement opportunities, so I am sending an email instead - I'm not sure how I didn't see notification that you were holding meetings or engagement opportunities, but I apologize if they were publicized and I am late. If you are going to proceed with the development of this land, I do not support it and actively oppose it without hard line guarantees (with penalties for failure to meet the standards) that you are going to meet the following: 1) You must let the court process and HUD investigation and all other systems actions be completed until the residents have completed all appeals. If you can't do that, how can we trust you in our community to abide by our local rules and policies? The company with which you are associated has a very negative track record and it is in my community's best interest to see your demonstrated ability to work within the systems in place to protect our city and residents' interests. 2) You must take action immediately to significantly improve upon your current demonstrated inability to provide a safe housing environment - so far, I have seen repeated health and safety violations that lead me to believe that you are not capable of conducting your business safely. Your word is no longer enough - you must go farther to prove to us you are capable of complying with or exceeding health and safety regulations and meet or exceed health risk minimum standards. 3) Your plans must exactly replace the affordability that Lowry Grove represented. An apartment is not automatically "affordable" simply because it is an apartment, obviously, so you are going to have to do better for us. You will need to create amenities like a community garden and gathering spaces, in addition to affordability that matches the current situation. If you need to spend a portion of the money to develop the area on infrastructure, you must provide transparent records to allow the City to clearly verify your investment in this area. And you must document your plans to replicate the same number of housing units with frozen, low rent. You also need to have units with the capacity to house larger families - tiny units for individuals will not match the loss of the resource that was the mobile home park. You need to demonstrate that you can produce affordable family housing as well. If you cannot produce detailed plans on how you will meet these needs, the City takes a loss with your project and has treated our neighbors badly for no greater good. Thank you for your time and attention. Mageen Caines 1