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4f,6 � A.4r • March 2 , 1992 Dear Mounsdveiw City Officials: I was asked to make some comments regarding the impact of Roberts on our apartment building at 5284 Greenfield, and the people living there. I feel our tenants and caretakers are better qualified to address this since they live with these problems, whereas I generally only hear about them after the fact. However, let me try to summarize the problems that I'm aware of related to Roberts and their customers. • One of the biggest problems relates to Roberts customers parking in our lot or in front of our building. This severely restricts parking for our tenants and their guests. In the last several weeks we have towed about a half of dozen cars from our lot to make room for our own people. Whenever we've called Robert's to ask them to make an announcement before we tow, they have not been willing to do that. • Beer cans , bottles, and rubbish have been strewn around our property by Robert's customers. At times this has been so bad that it is hard for our caretakers to keep up with it. • Noise and general commotion has been a problem from Robert's • customers as they leave the bar. Many times this occurs late at night. We've even had people urinating outside the windows of some of our tenants. When we purchased this apartment building in 1978 , the Robert's building was an Anchor Inn family restaurant. We took comfort in the fact that this establishment was conducive to a residential setting. If we were to sell this apartment building now, I don't think the new owners would take the same comfort in having Roberts across the street, just as our tenants don't. I don't know what the thinking was when it was approved to convert this building to a bar in this re3identi-al neighborhood. H-owe-ve-rL-that—no-w looks like that may have been a mistake. As perspective tenants look at our building, they often ask whether there are any problems with the bar across the street. Since the expansion of Roberts last fall we can no longer honestly say there are no problems. In order to protect the rights of our tenants, it appears that any solution would have to include the restriction of bar parking to Robert's own property. Sincerely 0 Cairn McDonnell M & S Property