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Pagel of 2 Mike Ericson From: Carolyn Krall [ckrall@landformmsp.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 5:02 PM To: Bryan Bear Cc: Mike Ericson; Kendra Lindahl Subject: FW:Attached Image Bryan; attached is the revised lower quadrant(southwest corner of CR 8 and Hwy 61)of the downtown plan (not rendered yet). Before I finish it I'd like to confirm that this is roughly what you were looking for. I added more office commercial space, as requested --but some comments I heard wanted only commercial space, others wanted a mix with office and multi-family. So I studied it further and developed this plan, working with the following parameters and assumptions: 1. access is limited to a single point at the northwest end of the site, where we can get to the new intersection on CR 8; there is no access to Hwy 61; 2. we only have 5-600 ft of stacking room at the CR 8 intersection, so the amount of traffic created by commercial space is a concern -- large amounts of retail space aren't workable; 3. multi-story buildings are desirable downtown, but the additional height and area creates the need for larger parking lots; so this plan mixes 2 story and 1 story buildings to achieve a balance,- 4. alance;4. the plan provides 50,000 sf of commercial area, which seems in the reasonable range, if more commercial area was provided (maybe along CR 8 ?)you would begin to need the entire interior of the site for parking and a pond, which seems at odds with the desire to avoid large parking lots; 5. so keeping some housing here seemed to make sense, but it needs to be enough to be worth a builder pursuing, and enough to function as a small neighborhood --so generally not less than 40-50 units,- 6. nits;6. town homes seem to be more marketable in this area than condos, and on-street parking works for their guest parking (with resident parking fully enclosed), reducing run-off, increasing green space and allowing for localized pending; 7. If rental apartments were an option (senior or otherwise)you could build one larger building with about 100 units on the same or less land, but with more parking surface needed, although some of that parking might be able to be shared with the commercial uses Let me know what you think-- I tried several options, and on past plans we had sketched several others. This plan seemed to be a good balance--and of course interested developers will come back with their own ideas, which will be different too. If it looks reasonable we will get the rendering done and get it pasted into the original plan. Thanks for you help, Carolyn Krall,A.I.A. Principal 510 First Avenue North, Suite 650 Minneapolis, MN 55403 Office: 612.252.9070 Direct: 612.638.0253 Fax: 612.252.9077 5/4/06