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Page 1 of3 Mehelich, Catherine From: Jamie Kalvestran uamiek@visLcom] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:48 PM To: Nick Zerwas Subject: concerns Dear Council Member Nick Zerwas, My husband and I recently moved from 18775 Albany Street in Elk River to 231 Nile Place NW in Elk River. This means we are within the proposed redevelopment area. Imagine our surprise to find that in the middle of June we closed on a house and paid for "Waterfront", only to fmd out it could be taken away shortly through eminent domain to create a trail for the public. And speaking of finding out - we have yet to be notified of any meetings. Yes, we just moved here. . . BUT the house we moved to has been here since 1948 and the address is the same! A notice could have been sent to "resident" at our address. When making our decision to move, we considered many other locations in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. We decided to stay in Elk River because people are friendly here. People who don't know each other actually greet each other on the street. (This isn't true in neighboring towns, I have had offices there, I know.) I am a small business owner with an office in the Cinema building. I saw Elk River as a town of 'nice' people, and friendly to small businesses. Now I am wondering if! was wrong, did we make a mistake? Here are a few my concerns, comments and questions: 1) PARKING: As a business owner with an office in the Cinema building I had a parking permit for tile employee lot. This means I was registered to receive that permit. When the new parking pennits were implemented I was unaware and un-notified! How can this happen? It's not like they didn't know I exist. Why was I overlooked? Once again I didn't receive any notice? 2) PA..RKS & TRAILS: I am not in favor of the proposed park and trail system that includes the Babcock flood plain and the trails along the Elk River. Though we have just l!1oved to 231 Nile Place NW. I have already heard of boats and canoes being stolen from a number of families along the Elk River. Also, firewood being taken from private property owners and campfires being held along the rivers edge on privately owned land. I have also personally witnessed how easy it is for someone to walk across the river. This means having the trail on the far side (south side) of the river would not increase the security of our property by much. How do you plan to police this? Who pays for it? I am in favor of parks and trails however. One of the reasons for moving out of our former neighborhood was because we could not bike safely from our house. To get to any of the bike trails we would need to ride on Upland/Meadowvale Rd. There is no shoulder or room for bikes or walkers. Even thought the road was recently repaved no shoulder was added. We had to load 7/24/2007