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From:Barb Proulx <br />To:Becky Petryk <br />Cc:Emily Weber <br />Subject:Acres of Bald Eagle <br />Date:Wednesday, June 30, 2021 2:59:29 PM <br />Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. <br />Good afternoon Council Member Petryk, <br />It is my understanding that the City Council is scheduled to approve the new development <br />named the Acres of Bald Eagle at their meeting on July 19. <br />It is also my understanding that the Planning Commission will be taking public comment on <br />this at the July 8 public hearing. <br />If you haven't already, I would encourage you to walk the property, better yet - walk my <br />property so you can see the impact. <br />I would like to share, and sincerely hope that you pass this on to the full council, mayor and <br />commission, my thoughts pertaining to this proposed development. <br />I have had the pure enjoyment and satisfaction of living and raising our kids on my one acre <br />parcel in Lake Air Estates, Block 1, Lot 19 for the last 37 years. When we purchased the <br />property, one acre was the smallest lot you could purchase in Hugo. My how times have <br />changed! <br />Our large lot residential neighborhood is unique. We have neighbors, yet we have space that <br />provides for privacy. Our property is directly adjacent to the proposed development. I have a <br />few concerns that I would like to share. <br />Currently the property proposed for development is an urban forest. We enjoy the deer, <br />turkey, fox, pheasant, bald eagles, hawks and owls...just to name a few of habitants of this <br />property. I am hoping that the developer will take this to heart when the excavators show up <br />to scrape the land. <br />Will there be a wooded buffer zone around this development? I know a tree survey was done. <br />What does that mean? I would encourage the developer to keep most of the trees around this <br />property. New developments that have been going up all seem to have trees planted around <br />the property. This is a mutual benefit to both the current and new property owners. <br />I am concerned that the drainage and storm runoff proposed on the plat map is not the best use <br />of the way the property is naturally formed. The property currently has a low wetland. This <br />appears to be eliminated on the plat map and a moat like ditch system will replace it and put it <br />in a "pond" directly next to my property. I am wondering why they would do the extra work? <br />Is it because they will take the dirt to build up the home sites so they can put the tall towering <br />two story walkout homes as proposed? <br />When we purchased our lot, those many years ago we were given a list of covenants.