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l � I Selection You Desire-Service You Demand • Chapel & Mausoleum ° . Complete Crematory & Niches • • Burial Vaults & Memorial Markers MEMORIAL PARK The Council of the City of St, Anthony Village City Hall 3301 Silver Lake Road St. Anthony Village, MN 55418 May 5th, 1982 Re: A Request for an Easement under the Proposed Burlington Northern Overpass Bridge, parallel to the Burlington Northern Tracks. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: Please allow me to introduce myself: I am Fred Ossanna, III, Vice President and General Manager of Sunset Memorial Park located at 2250 St, Anthony Blvd, across from the Francis Gross Golfcourse. The purpose of this letter is to request the granting by St, Anthony Village to Sunset Memorial Park of an easement under the proposed railroad overpass bridge which would parallel the tracks operated by Burlington Northern Railroad on the • northern side of those tracks. The easement would not cross or impinge upon the right-of-way of those tracks, Two goals come to mind at Sunset in making this request: First, to connect the two separate sections of the Park; the older section to the south with the newer section to the north of the Boulevard, which would eliminate delays and dangerous exposure of funeral processions crossing between the two sections via the entryways located adjecent the traffic island at the intersection of the Boulevard and Minnesota Highway #88; Second, to close off and remove these above-mentioned entryways in order to gain more control of traffic through the Park and to increase overall security on the grounds. I have been in contact with both Mr. Larry Hamer, Director of Public Works, and Mr. Steve Campbell, P,E. , Short-Elloitt-Hendrickson, Inc. , the consulting engineers retained by St. Anthony Village, to determine the feasibility of such an easement. Preliminary inspections of the old bridge, the railroad right-of- way, Sunset' s grounds and the blueprints of the proposed new bridge have indicated that no engineering or construction problems would exist. The project of connecting the two Park sections, it was felt, should phase in smoothly with the construction of the bridge and would in no way delay or necessitate any change of the bridge construction as now anticipated by the State of Minnesota, Furthermore, Sunset Memorial Park has retained Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. • as consulting engineers for this project in order to insure that continuity exists in the phasing of the total bridge project and the execution of the requested easement, 2250 St. Anthony Blvd. N.E., Minneapolis, MN 55418 (612) 789-3596