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1 <br />Charlie Yunker <br />From:Barbara Gottfried <bgott3joy@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:38 PM <br />To:Randy Stille; Wendy Webster; Bernard Walker; Tom Randle; Jan Jenson; Charlie Yunker; <br />*SAPlanner <br />Subject:Idling cars and exhaust fumes at a proposed car wash <br />Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. <br /> <br />Dear Mayor, City Council Members, Charlie Yunker, and Steve Grittman, <br /> <br />Two vulnerable populations are living in the immediate vicinity of the proposed car wash: seniors at the <br />Kenzington, and growing children in single family homes. <br /> <br />Seniors: Many seniors are already living with chronic illnesses: heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes. <br /> <br />Growing children: There is increasing awareness of the negative health impacts of idling cars on school <br />children. St Anthony has a "Young Lungs At Work" initiative in response. <br /> <br />Our previous emails submitted to SAV city officials, and general public knowledge, point to the reality that <br />exhaust fumes from idling cars damage our health. <br /> <br />A car wash right next to our homes would expose our vulnerable seniors, growing children, and other residents <br />to more than 100 harmful compounds in idling car exhaust (see article excerpted below). This would occur all <br />day, every day. <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council, I'm simply asking you to follow the pertinent city code and deny the CUP. Protect our <br />neighborhood from harm! Be contributors to our health! <br /> <br />Barbara Gottfried <br />Kenzington Condominiums <br /> <br />MPCA website feature story, September 2012: <br />"Do you know that exhaust from an idling engine contains more pollutants than that from moving cars? <br />Vehicles are a major contributor to poor air quality in urban areas; the list of harmful ingredients in car exhaust <br />runs to more than 100 compounds. Studies have linked pollution from vehicles to increased rates of cancer, <br />heart and lung disease, asthma, and allergies. And the impact is greatest on kids – children breathe more rapidly <br />and inhale more pollutants per pound of body weight than adults, and their lungs are still developing." <br />https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/no-idling-please-young-lungs-work <br /> <br />141