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1 Charlie Yunker From:daveh0330@gmail.com Sent:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 11:17 AM To:Charlie Yunker Cc:Randy Stille; Wendy Webster; Jan Jenson; Tom Randle; Bernard Walker Subject:Proposed CUP for a car wash on Kenzie Terrace Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. Please include this email in the packet for the City Council meeting on March 9 about the CUP for the proposed car wash on Kenzie Terrace. To the SAV Mayor, Council members and City Manager, I am writing in opposition to the application for a conditional use permit for a Car Wash to be built on Kenzie Terrace adjacent to multi-family and single-family residences. Although the property is zon ed as commercial, St. Anthony Village code requires that certain conditions be met prior to approval of a Conditional Use Permit due to potential conflicts between commercial and nearby family residential buildings. Condition number three requires “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”. A car wash has aspects of the business that will inevitably be detrimental to the health, safety, general welfare of persons, as well as detrimental to property values of adjacent residential homes. The close proximity of existing residences – both multi-family and single family – is a particular cause for concern. I live on the 4th floor of the Kenzington facing that lot and my balcony will be only 40-50 feet from the proposed car wash. The noise of the machinery (car wash, dryers, vacuums) in addition to the noise associated with idling cars (car mufflers, radios, conversation etc.), water runoff and the air pollution associated with idling cars will make this business a very unpleasant neighbor. Imagine that you had to put up with all that for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week at your home. None of the proposed mitigations will help someone like myself unless Tom plans to build a 50 foot high wall between the Kenzington and the car wash. Even a cursory review of the situation makes it clear that this proposed use does not meet CUP requirements for many reasons. I would also like to speak about an important issue that relates to my particular area of expertise. I am a Realtor as well as a resident of the Kenzington and I am very concerned about how this business will impact the values of surrounding residential properties. As I stated in a previous letter, although there is no way to determine the exact impact of this business on surrounding property values, it is clear from my research and from consultation with knowledgeable real estate colleagues that there will almost certainly be a significant negative affect on nearby property values. Even if this business causes only a 10% reduction in property values (and my research indicates that it will likely be significantly larger than 10%), that is a painful hit to the residents of the Kenzington, many of whom are living on relatively modest fixed incomes. There are 24 condos at the Kenzington with balconies that face the proposed car wash face and 5 single family homes directly across the alley behind the car wash. Kenzington condos are currently valued at $100,000+ per unit and all 5 single family homes are valued above $300,000 each. Multiplying 24 times $100,000 gives you a total market value of $2,400,000 for the Kenzington condos. The 5 single family homes have a total market value of at least $1,500,000. The combined market value for the homes most directly affected by this proposal is at least $3,900,000. 214