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Home My WebLink About2002-05-05 PC Meeting Packet Enclosure, k K pois Danielson 5 To; f ] Dan Linan• f Ken Hoo e; Tim Nolde' David Dye ENCLOSURE , Cc: Scott Richards; Kim Kamper; Mark Vierling ')ject: Request to Extend the Review Period; McKean Vilest and Oakgreen Villas, Townhomes, and Apartments The city has received your request for a special meeting of the Planning commission for May 23, 2002. The Planning Commission. will take action on this request at their meeting of May 9 2302. As a result of the cancellation of the May 6, 2002 special meeting of the Planning commission, each of these applications will appear on the Planning Commissson agenda of May 9, 2002. If the Planning commission does not vote to set a special meeting on May 23, 2002, a recommendation will need to be made by the Planning Commission at their meeting of May 9, 2002. City staff met this morning to discuss the projects and the remaining period of review allowable for the projects, As I mentioned to Ken Hooge on the telephone yesterday, the last opportunity the City will have to take action on these projects will be the City Council meeting of June 11, 2002, With that date rapidly approaching, it may be that June 11th will be the first and only opportunity the City council will have to consider these requests without an extension beyond the 120 day review period. Therefore I am writing to encourage you to .submit any revised plans to my office for review as soon as possible in any case and also to recommend that a letter of request be sent to the city which waives the 120 day review period allowed for each of these applications. Please contact me at (651) 439 -4439 with any questions you may have. Sincerely, Kris Danielson rnmmunity Development Director S i Kris Danielson From: Kenneth Hooge [khooge @seniorpartners.com Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2;06 PM, To: kdanielson@cityofoakparkheights.com Cc: Allen Black; diindh a3preshomes.org; Subject: OPH Planning Commission L L� Kris Danielson Community Development Director 14168 Oak Park Boulevard No. Oak Park Heights, MN 55082 Kris, As we discussed earlier today, we hereby request a postponement of consideration of the applications for the oakgreen villas, Oakgreen Apartments, oakgreen Townhouses and McKean Square West, our efforts to insure that the proposed development will comply with the expectations of the city and with our own needs, will be better served with additional time for further planning. The oakgreen Townhouse site plan generated a considerable amount of discussion at the last Planning Commission meeting and we are working to develop a viable plan, consistent with city planning direction, zoning and applicable ordinances. Further discussion of McKean Square West will be more productive after the city Council deals with the Joint Powers Agreement on May 14, 2002. We request that the special Planning Commission meeting scheduled for May 6th, be rescheduled, possibly to May 23, for consideration of all of the applications listed above. Your assistance with these project is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Ken Hooge Senior Housing Partners Project Manager 4/29/02 APR 2 6 2061. , Ilu V Apri1,17,02 Dear Mayor B eaudet, My name is Harold Splittstoesser. I own the property on the Northwest corner of oakgreen and 58& street. I recently met with Mr. Tim Nolde from Anchobaypro,Inc. From what Z understand, Mr. Nolde's company is developing the area west of our house. First of all F d like to say that I'm aware of the fact that the counsel works l ong and hard at studying the impact and proper placement of these developments in this community. I have seen many of the meetings on television. I do believe you care and I know many of your decisions and consideration's are based on people and their particular situation's. Knowing this, I wish to present my situation and concern's to you. Let me start out by telling you a little history of my family. we have lived in this house for 3 years and have worked long and hard to pay off our mortgage and have always considered it as part of our ret�rement.y wide and I have raised two children in this home and our 20 year old daughter still lives with us. we have obviously enjoyed living here but have seen the winds of ch ange corning. I am 5 8 and my wife is 5 5. At this age we are looping more closely at our retirement years and wish to plan where we will spend those years. I know this development behind us will be good for many n ew people moving into this community. I have no problem with progress and change. I do think that when a change this large is about to take place all around you, there should be consideration's made for those who have lived in this community for so long and will be greatly affected by this change. We knew this development was coning and have considered moving in the past. The problem we've had is, with all the talk and plans that have been presented in this area for so long, we have not been sure how we could even sell our house. one person in the neighborhood tried to sell their house and were inundated by investor's who wanfed to pay little for their house to make big profits later on. They soon had to take the house off the market. we have not b een able to make plans and work to see those plans come to pass. My wife and I have felt that we have had little or nothing to say about our -own destiny for a number of years now. We were told on several occasions that our house and property were worth some fair money and that Presbyterian Homes would be contacting us to buy us out. From ghat we were seeing, that seemed so. Two houses in our small neighborhood were purchased and it looked like we would be approached soon. we waited and gaited but no one called or came to talk to us about the purchasing of our house. A couple of years have past and still no contact. we have had to put our lives on hold now for years. This has been very fristrating and stressful on our lives. At the end of January we received a letter frond. a Mr. Tim Nolde. My wife and I had never heard of W. Nolde or Anchobaypro, Inc. before. Tim informed us about a meeting corm. g up which was going to address our neighborhood. Z called Tim and said Y could not get to the meeting on that date. Tim said he would come tQ our house and talk to us personally. ,der taping to Mr. Nolde, my wife and Z were even more frustrated than ever. We understood what he was telling us and it left us sick at heart. He told us his company going to develop the p directly behind us and that he could not p y was g g p p ro p afford to purchase our house because of lack of finances. He said the only way he could p property r purchase our e was i f his company received tax assistance through the City fxorn a p rogram called T.Z.F. and that we could maybe get close to fair market value. fir. Nolde kept eluding to the fact that we could also just stag in our house. He told us to be sure and come to the meetings and help push for T.I.F. assistance from the City otherwise he wouldn't be able to purchase our house. My wife and f felt like pawns b etween the City and this development company. All of a sudden our house and property value has dropped substantially. o told us that on that sarn6 day he was Mr. Nolde also y p urchasing the Murray house p alon and behind us. Presbyterian Homes owns the old Nerhing house next to us. we now have become a lone house cut off from the rest of our neighborhood. To have a lone, single dwelling unit sitting here, surrounded by streets and multi- dwelling units, appears odd and out of place. It seems to us that this kind of structuring for development would not even be allowed by the City Planning Board. with the development behind and alongside and the p ossibility of oakgreen Ave. being widened in the future, it looks a .i O whole lot like a slow squeeze to us. we have been through a lot of emotional stress in the p ast few years over this situation and now it seems to have taken a turn foT the worse. My wife and Z are hoping that our representatives on the Planning Board will NOT vote . to approve these site plans presented by Mr. Nolde until consideration iPs given to the residents who already live in the Oakgreen neighborhood. Thank ou Mayor B eaudet for taking your valuable time to read my lengthy letter. If you y y wash to contact us, our phone number �s, 43 9- 8441.. 1 Respectfully yours, Harold & Lynn Splittstoesser