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without sufficient information to assess the potential risk to health, safety or general welfare. 7. The planning commission neglected to consider the impact of air pollution from idling cars and offered no mitigation from this detrimental impact. The car wash plan allows for two lanes of cars idling resulting in at least 16 idling cars waiting their turn in the car wash. The impact of emissions from these idling cars in a residential area was not assessed by the city planner or planning commission. Adding this necessary component of a car wash is not consistent with St. Anthony’s Sustainability plan that has committed to a reduction of cars idling through the “Young Lungs at Work” initiative. Minneapolis codes prevents cars from idling more than 3 minutes within an hour. State of MN policy prevents State employees from idling a state-owned vehicle for more than 3 minutes. You can expect that a continuous line of up to 16 cars will consistently exceed that standard. The detrimental health effect is not only to children living and playing in their homes, but also seniors in the Kenzington and all residents in the area. 8. The planning commission neglected to consider the impact of noise pollution from car radios while cars wait their turn in the car wash and offered no mitigation to this detrimental impact. 9. City staff neglected to evaluate the impact of stated light illumines for the project. While they did recommend downward facing lights at 20 feet, they provide no evidence that this will mitigate concerns. Currently, the Blvd is violating the light ordinance with the light directly beside 2800 27th Ave NE. City staff are aware that this has been discussed with Tom, but no action has resulted. 10. City staff neglected to evaluate water usage. While St. Anthony states the goal of being a Green City, there was no evaluation of whether the systems for this car wash is Green compliant. 11. In summary, the planning commission has not fulfilled their statutory responsibility relative to the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for this commercially zoned property adjacent to single family and multi-family homes. 12. The granting of a CUP is governed by the required findings set forth in SAV Code 152.243. SAV Code 152.243 (c)(4) provides: (3) The use will not be detrimental to the health, safety, or general welfare of persons residing or working in the vicinity or to the values of property in the vicinity;”. 13. We respectfully request that the St. Anthony City Council fulfill your statutory responsibility and deny the Conditional Use Permit for the Blvd Car Wash. We support Tom’s right to use his property and would be happy to engage in solution finding to support that right. The Car Wash CUP must be denied as it does not meet CUP requirements.