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• • To whom it may concern: My name is Kathleen Schwartz. I live at 472 Greenwood Lane. This property is attached to Moline Concrete's property. I would like to address the planning and zoning board and the city council about the conditional use permit for Moline Concrete. I am against the continuation of the conditional use permit for many reasons and see no reason at all to permit changes to the existing permit. The first reason is the noise. Moline Concrete in accordance with the permit is not allowed to run the beepers from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 am. I can not tell you how many times the beepers are on all through the night. My family is not able to sleep with the windows open in the summer - If we do we are awaken between 3:OOam and 4:OOam. and unable to get back to sleep. We are still able to hear the beepers with the windows closed but it is not as loud. This has been reported to both the company and the Police by my neighbors. (the Cables, Miller's and myself). This is only reported about one hundredth of the time it occurs. I have also called Moline in 1997 and 1998 and never received a call back from Randy or Tom Moline. I have received a copy of the letter dated November 7, 2000 from Randall Moline to Mary Kay Wyland. In this letter Randall Moline stated that the company conducted tests on October 24th and 25th. I do believe these test to have been preformed. I question the accuracy of these tests however, 1 am never awakened by the traffic from the freeway. I do agree that I can hear the traffic when I am outside and no other activities are going on but the noise is very faint. Mr. Moline would like the city to believe (as stated) that the noise is really coming from other sources and they(Molin's)are getting the blame for all noises. This is not true — I do know if the noise is coming from the freeway, other business or the forklifts 400 ft. from my windows. I feel that when these tests were taken — the beepers were either not monitored to see what the noise level was or they were on next to the factory on the south end of the property. We have never complained about the beepers when used on the south side of the property. I would like to have a test run when the neighbors and a representative from the city can be present. The police department did a test and found the noise to exceed the noise limit. Moline states that this test was done incorrectly. Why? How should it have been preformed? The letter also states that OSHA rules have changed causing the conditions of their agreement with the neighbors and the city to need changing. He continues stating that the safety and welfare of his workers is the most important issue. I agree with this statement. I don't however see how this effects the conditional use permit. If the company is concerned with the workers safety and under federal law is required to follow OSHA law then they should not run the heavy equipment on the north end of his property until after the hours agreed upon. If as Mr. Molin states in this letter that "the company is locked into the way it does business and can not abide by the condition for approval" they should be required to provide something to reduce or eliminate the noise. The one suggestion that I have is a