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<br /> January 26, 2018 <br />Mayor Faust & Council Members <br />c/o Mark Casey <br />CITY OF SAINT ANTHONY VILLAGE <br />3301 Silver Lake Road <br />Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota 55418 <br /> <br />VIA HAND DELIVERY <br />RE: Written Statement in Support of PUD Application <br />Dear Mayor Faust and Council Members: <br />Having reached what THE VILLAGE, LLC (“The Village”) believes to be a <br />shared vision for redevelopment, it now submits a Planned Unit <br />Development (“PUD”) Preliminary Development Plan application (and, <br />together with its related applications and materials, the “Applications”) <br />for redevelopment (“Project”) of 2501 Lowry Avenue NE, Saint Anthony, <br />Minnesota (the “Property”). This letter is offered as written support for <br />the Applications. <br />In preparing the Applications, The Village scrapped its earlier plans and <br />presents this entirely new concept. Understanding that a planned unit <br />development must meet both The Village’s needs and the needs of the <br />City of Saint Anthony Village (the “SAV”), The Village Project was rebuilt <br />from square one to address the concerns raised in opposition to the <br />original applications. We began at “square one” with the baseline <br />understanding that density would be dramatically reduced. This required <br />a completely different way of looking at potential designs. <br />What evolved was a simpler design and greatly-reduced infrastructure. <br />The revised design began with a single boulevard-style roadway, akin to <br />Stinson Parkway. From there, architects refined the design to increase <br />total parking (including adding significantly greater surface parking), <br />reduce building heights, eliminate connections to the alley, reduce <br />retaining wall use, and create deeper setbacks. The Project now includes <br />two three-story, pitched-roof buildings to the north of the boulevard, used <br />for independent senior living, assisted senior living and memory care <br />units. A four-story, market rate apartment building rests south of the <br />boulevard. <br />We have detailed the current unit breakdown by building below. But <br />because minor changes can occur as the final drawings are fully refined, <br />The Village proposes a hard cap of 430 units on the Property, or 28 units <br />per acre.