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r.*vKr. *1^.AjVir.. .w.Au <br />• <br />‘--1 • <br />A ^'X.' vy j *•', V* V . *• • <br />,gx^. / <br />Note to the Orono City Council: <br />bad for our community. Following are some of my reasons for this conclusion. <br />. This is NOT just a shelter for the people of this area. <br />"diana, daspi.* tha fact that Mhtttatonka, lika us, was told that .t w-W <br />1o3l people. In fact, the Navarre Shelter could not guarantee a place for an abused <br />Navarre resident if there were one. <br />• The developer of this proposed shelter is Dan Hessberg. He has a ^tory in real <br />estate development, and is now an advocate for abused perwns. He and his <br />would be the Director and Co-Director of the shelter, controlhng its budg^ mclud g <br />their salaries. Some people in our community have expressed concc^ .uev <br />Hessberg's business ethics (based on past expenences they've a wi ' <br />fear that he wiU use this shelter as a means to make money. With h s shelter ^ pl^. it <br />is also feared that he will then buy several of the smaller houses in the neigl^hood <br />to convert into Section 8, or low-cost, housing, another money-mak^. Accorchng to <br />the former mayor of Long Lake, the low-cost housirig projert m <br />caused more problems than they ever imagined, and costs them a lot of money in <br />poUce calls alone. Just the number of inconsistencies in the infoTOaUon localpeople <br />have heard about this project makes me quesHon the truth m what Mr. Hessb^ is <br />saying. <br />. -n,e urban housing policy of 0»no explidUy .tale,: “MulUple <br />ments generally will not be considered approprUle for land, within 1,000 feet rf Ute <br />Minnetonka nor for areas such as Navarre that have limited transporttbon aceeM to <br />^tslde employment or shopping facilities." A shelw wWch „ <br />children is by definition a muld-family housing family. The poliiy <br />new development wiU be permitted to confiicl with or to advereely <br />lished neiglLhood character." Every single neighbor of the “7“ <br />that a neig i.t.«r.ood i. not a good place for a dieller. Severd slat^^l It ^ ^y <br />changed liie aiaracter of Hopkins (although m Minnetonka, the shelter is very <br />Hopkins border).