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• Mr. Larry Hamer <br /> Public Works Director <br /> Saint Anthony Village <br /> May 19, 1989 <br /> Page 2 <br /> You have indicated in your letter that any additional parking on <br /> the office building site would require an asphalt or concrete <br /> parking lot. My client envisions developing a portion of this lot <br /> as an overflow parking lot for the visitors of the Kenzington, but <br /> did not envision nor does it for reasons described below seem to <br /> be economically feasible or advisable to cause that great of <br /> expenditure of funds for what may potentially be a temporary use. <br /> My client would like to grade and place crushed rock in the parking <br /> area bed to provide temporary parking facilities. <br /> This proposal is the result of several factors: <br /> 1. The lack inability to secure a medical office building <br /> tenant which would support the construction of the <br /> medical office building. <br /> 2. Lack of identification of any specific user for that site <br /> • at the present time. <br /> 3 . The site is the subject of investigation by the Minnesota <br /> Pollution Control Agency ( "PCA" ) . <br /> As you are aware there was located on this site at one time a <br /> gasoline service station. In connection with that use underground <br /> storage tanks were used to retain petroleum products. Over a period <br /> of time the tanks apparently developed corrosion and began to leak <br /> the product which was contained within the tanks resulting in <br /> contaminated soils. I have enclosed various items of correspondence <br /> which have been sent either to my client from the PCA or from our <br /> environmental testing experts. We are at this time awaiting a <br /> response. <br /> The reparation and rehabilitation of the site may involve <br /> excavation and removal of contaminated soils. It may also involve <br /> placement of monitoring wells on the property. Since my client is <br /> not able to anticipate the scope of the reparation, they are <br /> unwilling at this time to spend a great deal of money on an asphalt <br /> or concrete parking lot which could be torn up in a very short <br /> period of time. In addition, it is our environmental engineer' s <br /> .opinion that paving should not be undertaken at this time. We are <br /> in short, in a "catch 22" in several respects. <br /> First, the residents and the visitors of the Kenzington Condominium <br /> are requesting additional parking and we believe it could be <br /> accomplished by grading and improving with crushed rock a portion <br /> of the adjacent site. <br />