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Lou Ann and Nancy Schmidt 3025 Wilson Street NE St. Anthony, MN 55418 May 11, 2018 Re: Notice of Public Hearing for Daycare Facility We have lived next door to the daycare since it opened in October, 2010. It began under the guise of an "in-home" daycare, but no one has lived at 3029 Wilson since it opened and it was therefore always a business. We have complained about the traffic, excessive noise level of kids screaming, etc. since the get -go (see copy of our October 29, 2010 letter attached), but our complaints fell on deaf ears (see City's response of 11/4/10 that basically blew off our complaints). We vehemently oppose a Conditional Use Permit since this is a RESIDENTIAL neighborhood, not a business zone. Most likely, the daycare people will say they've been here since 2010 and are well established and things are hunky-dory. They came in on false pretenses and most likely didn't pay enough taxes by claiming a homestead credit, but things have not been good since they moved in. Below, please find various reasons for our request for denial of the permit: We experience LOTS of extra traffic on our RESIDENTIAL road. The customers won't go around the block, but rather jockey back and forth in the road to turn around to leave. Or, they use our driveway, which causes extra wear and tear on our property, and in the winter it leaves ice tracks. At times, the parked cars extend over our driveway, making it difficult for us to get in or out. A friend had a fender -bender pulling out of our driveway because a crying kid she thought might dart out by the driveway distracted her. The kid's dad watched her back out and into the car parked directly across from driveway and never even shouted a warning. When the parents pick up their kids, they don't just head home. They all play out front, screaming and running near the road for another 15-20 minutes. This ties up our RESIDENTIAL street longer than need be. And after a long day of listening to the screamers, we really don't appreciate hearing them any longer. We have a lot of walkers on Wilson Street, which was normally a quiet street until the business moved in. Now they must walk around cars parked on both sides of the street at times. Also, when cars line both sides of the street, it's too narrow for an emergency vehicle to get through. If this is a business, they should make accommodations for off-street parking. We put up a fence in 2010 because the customers would park in front of our house and cut diagonally across OUR front lawn to pick up their kids. The daycare people have no regard for other's property and allowed the kids to play on that fence. We replaced that fence with a second one, which is now also wrecked. And still some of the customers walk across our lawn and go over the fence. Continued