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'. , I I I BRIGGS AND NORGA"S' Members of City Council New Brighton Administrative Offices Page 2 February 25, 1982 RE: Project No. 82-8 Saint Mary's Hospital is opposed to this improvement on the following grounds: 1. This improvement is solely for the benefit of the developer of Innsbrook, North, 4th Addition. It will simply allow him access to develop the 14 lots on the southerly part of the plat. 2. There is no corresponding benefit to Saint Mary's Hospital. No access is needed to its property in that it is unimproved and will remain unimproved for the foreseeable future. Even if improvements do occur, there is ample oppor- tunity for access to the property from the south or eastr rather than from the north. Thus there is simply no benefit to Saint Mary's Hospital as the owner of this undeveloped parcel of land. . 3. The developer and the City are assuming that Saint Mary's Hospital will develop the northerly part of its property as single family residential and in fact have assurried a certain lot platting with proposed future streets. These assumptions are t6tally unwarranted. Saint Mary's Hospital is still considering the possibility of developing this property as a medical care facility of SOfie type, either a hospital, a clinic, an emergency, a surgicenter, medical office buildings, or some combination of those uses. That decision has been delayed due to the present economic' times and the uncertainty of the future role of acute in~patient hospitals. It is certainly possible that if the property were developed in whole or in part as a health care facility, there would be no single family residential development and the present improvements would certainly not be needed. 4. In essence, the developer of Innsbrook, North is attempting to force the development of the Saint Mary's parcel along the lines of single family residential. This assumption is unwarranted.