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brighton March 21, 1977 N r PLn Ln Q Mr. Allen A. Otte - p Manager, Buildings and Grounds W U.O.P. Johnson Division z P.O. Box 3118 St. Paul, MN 55165 z ® Dear Mr. Otte: At its Marchi meeting, the Commissioners of the New Brighton M Housing and Redevelopment Authority asked that I write to you to w explain how the U.O.P. - Johnson Division came to be included in the z HRA's redevelopment area. z Based on information submitted by our consultant that many w aspects of the entrances to the downtown area of New Brighton were deficient in their visual aspect and their traffic flow, it was determined that it was necessary to include these areas in our planning and to control their design and development, so that they would provide easy and attractive entrances that would help draw people into the downtown area. One of the entrances to downtown is C from I -35W via Highway 96 to Old Highway 8. Control of that area, 00 especially the parcel immediately south of your company's property z was felt to be essential in creating the correct image at this O �- north entrance. C7 For this reason, it was determined at an early date that this m � entrance should be within the HRA's redevelopment area. The specific LU boundaries of the redevelopment district were set at a later date. LL ® The northern boundary was fixed as the north line of the U.O.P. - �_ Johnson Division property. This decision was made because it appeared that the inclusion of this property would be an asset to the financing of the redevelopment plan by providing,a potential additional tax: increment. The increased tax increment would enable project costs to be repaid and the tax increment district dissolved more quickly. It was also the HRA's feeling that inclusion in the redevelopment area would not in any way hurt U.O.P. - Johnson Division and there was certainly no intent to imply that your company's property was in any way blighted or substandard..