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SERVING: <br />Anoka <br />Anoka County <br />Apple Valley <br />Arden Hills <br />Austin <br />Blaine <br />Bloomington <br />Brooklyn Center <br />Brooklyn Park <br />Buffalo <br />Burnsville <br />Carver County May 9, 2002 <br />Champlin <br />Chanhassen <br />Chaska <br />Circle Pines <br />Cokato <br />Columbia Heights Planning Commission <br />Cotta Rapids <br />Cottage Grove City of Little Canada <br />Crystal 515 Little Canada Road East <br />Dakota Cou <br />Deephaven my Little Canada, MN 55117 <br />Delano <br />Eagan <br />Eden Prairie Dear Planning Commission Members, <br />Edina <br />Excelsior <br />Falcon Heights U.S. Bench Corporation is a family -owned business serving the metro area since 1946 with <br />Fridley courtesy benches for transit rider use. This service is wholly supported by local businesses <br />Farmington <br />Golden Valley who underwrite the cost with their advertising messages and there is no cost to the city <br />Hennepin County <br />Hilltop taxpayer. <br />Hopkins <br />Inver Grove Heights <br />Jordan Last week we bought out the Ameribench Company that installed benches in the City of <br />Lakeville Lake Elmo Little Canada last fall. This week our company has removed twelve of these benches. <br />Landfall This situation provides an entirely new dynamic with regard to the bus bench program in <br />Lexington the City of Little Canada. It is our desire to serve the city with eight to ten benches in <br />Lauderdale <br />Little ino Lakes Canada <br />Lino Lak locations acceptable to the city and city staff. <br />Long Lake <br />Mankato Recently a new ordinance was written which we discussed at the March meeting. This is a <br />Mahtomedi <br />Maplewood good ordinance and we ask that it be reaffirmed or deferred for further study. If reaffirmed <br />Mendota neap lisights g suggest a ten bench limit in the City. This, along with the benches the City <br />Minneapolis we would like to su t7' g <br />State of f Min inneesoneoso ta Board has or will install, would adequately serve the transit needs of the City of Little Canada. <br />Ma M <br />Minnetonka <br />Moundsview We respectfully submit that the maintenance and cost of providing benches is higher than <br />Mound <br />New Brighton that assumed in the city staff report. This maintenance cost has resulted in few if any cities <br />New Hope <br />Newport undertaking this expense other than in a "beautification project ". <br />North Mankato <br />North St. Paul <br />Oak Park Heights <br />Oakdale <br />Orono <br />Osseo <br />Plymouth <br />Prior Lake <br />Ramsey County <br />Richfield <br />Robbinsdale <br />Rockford <br />Rosemount <br />Roseville <br />St. Anthony <br />St. Louis Park <br />St. Michael <br />St. Paul <br />St. Paul Park <br />St. Peter <br />Savage <br />Scott County <br />Shakopee <br />Shoreview <br />Shorewood <br />South St. Paul <br />Spring Lake Park <br />Spring Park <br />Stillwater <br />Tonka Bay <br />United Slates Government <br />Vadnais Heights <br />Washington County <br />Waverly <br />Wayzata <br />West St. Paul <br />White Bear Lake SERVING T7-"i 'TRANSIT RIDER FOR OVER A F*4L F CENTURY 'T OUT COST TO THE TAXPAYER <br />Wright County <br />United States -= fwd Bench Corporation <br />3300 SNELLING <br />MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55406 <br />TELEPHONE 612/721 -2525 <br />FAX: 612/721 -2222 <br />We sincerely feel that this proposal would provide a good partnership with the city and its <br />endeavor to provide an aesthetic transit amenity for its transit community. <br />Sincerely, <br />Roland C. Danielson <br />RD /mk <br />enc. <br />