Letter Request and CommunicationRECEIVED
DEC -1 2019
Planning Committee /Marie Darling November 30, 2019
Shorewood City Hall CITY OF SHORE 0D
Dear members,
Again, I am coming with the request of better management of excessive lighting from Shorewood
Landing Senior Living.
Last year I presented to the Planning Committee, suggestions to up- grade the Lighting rules in the City
of Shorewood. The reason I presented this was because my property and the surrounding properties
around the new build, Shorewood Landing on Chaska Road, have been violated with excess lighting at
night. And I witnessed other areas of the City having conflicting lighting problems.
To remind you, we made the request to have special down cast parking lot lighting to limit the over flow
of their light onto our property. Because this City is mixing residential and commercial we voiced our
concern on the end result for us.
The end product of Shorewood Landings lay out concerning lighting was to build a monument sign at
the end of our driveway with lights that blind us coming out of our driveway. At Christmas time they
decorated the entire top of the building with large white light bulbs. Dozens of lit up trees followed. This
year they have added more lights on the ground.
I enjoy decorative lights. My continuous request has been to turn all decorative lights off at 11 pm
nightly. Including the lights on top of the building. I performed a neighborhood questioning of the 12
surrounding properties affected by lighting. All preferred the lights go off at llpm.(1/12/2019).
I have been working on this problem for a year now. Last year my complaint to Marie Darling about the
lights resulted in everything (decorative) being turned off completely. This year the complaint turned
them off, then they came back on. I have contacted management at The Landings numerous times, with
them ignoring me.
I turned to talking with the Maintenance manager, explaining our problem with the monument sign. He
did put a hood on the spot light, but it still blinds our vision entering on to the road. I also talked with
him about the ability to control the outside decorative lights. It is possible, but he needs permission to
do it.
Did the Planning Committee change or make new rules concerning Commercial lighting? I am frustrated
that another year is here, the lights are on again, and there seems to be no one to deal with our
problem.
You have a problem in that this City continues to mix Zones that are not compatible with Residential
living. Light pollution effects people, driving visuals, animal wellbeing and neighborhood home pricing.
I am looking to you to resolve this problem. The City should have this worked out. Please inform me of
your actions and changes at The Shorewood Landings.( Soon to be The Pillars).
Sincerely,
Cindy Marr -6015 Chaska Rd
witsRal5@smail.com
From:
Marc Riedel < mriedel @umn.edu>
Sent:
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 4:06 PM
To:
Marie Darling
Cc:
Dustin Maddy; Janet Sylvester; Marie Darling; Robert Bean; Sue Davis
Subject:
correction to Chapter 701 "Animals"
Dear Marie,
Since you are proposing some semantic changes to the code this week, I would like suggest the following charge to
Chapter 701 "Animals ", part 701.02, "Definitions', NON- DOMESTICATED (NON- DOMESTIC) ANIMAL, part c:
"Any member or relative of the rodent family including any skunk (whether or not de- scented), raccoon, r squirrel,
but excluding those members otherwise defined or commonly accepted as domesticated pets;"
Skunks and raccoons are not rodents, nor in a biological sense are they closely related to rodents. They r both in the
family Musteloidea, so related to weasels. I suggest the following change:
"Any member of the rodent family, as well as skunks (whether or not de- scented) and raccoons, buvcluding those
members otherwise defined or commonly accepted as domesticated pets;"
Regards,
Marc
Marc Riedel, Ph.D. `
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Electrical & Computer Engineering;
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