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From: David Rowley <br />To: Emily Weber <br />Subject: Public Hearing 11-21 re WBLAS Proposed transportation and maintenance facility <br />Date: Friday, November 15, 2019 9:59:49 AM <br />Dear Emily, <br />Thank you for speaking to my daughter Lynda, who resides in our Creekview town <br />home at 13377 Europa Court N Unit 4. As legal owner, I am in receipt of your notice <br />of the upcoming hearing regarding the proposed maintenance facility directly across <br />the street from our property on the east side of Fenway. <br />The site plan of the proposed facility indicates it to be adjacent to and north of <br />Northland Pallet's facility. We already experience noise from that facility with a line up <br />of semi trucks on a regular basis, including predawn noise and a certain amount of <br />traffic congestion on Fenway from parked trucks awaiting load up of pallets. <br />We are greatly concerned about another facility adjacent to this one that will only <br />compound existing noise and traffic, not to mention diesel emissions. If the City <br />intends to consider granting a Conditional Use Permit to WBLAS for this facility <br />including excessive exterior storage, what will it do to represent the interests of us <br />residents who own homes that will be directly impacted by this facility? <br />My main concerns are, noise, traffic, visual impacts and air quality. Please advise me <br />if there will be any studies conducted to address these matters. Please consider what <br />can be done to mitigate these should the CUP be granted. <br />Many residents will be impacted by this. Have you reached out to our HOA to review <br />this in detail to seek their feedback? Please consider doing so as they are a <br />constituency already existing in the Hugo community, and the fact these are <br />permanent residences with many impacted families we think it should hold a sense of <br />duty by the City to have our best interests upheld in lieu of a business interest of <br />another township. <br />What other suitable locations have been considered to house this facility that is not in <br />such close proximity to our homes? Does the City have other more suitable property <br />for consideration? There seems to be other vacant land further west by 1-35 that <br />seems a potential alternative. Please address this request to identify other locations <br />not in such close proximity to our neighborhood. <br />I am 86 years old and I am physically unable to attend the meeting so please present <br />my concerns, comments and questions in my correspondence to the City authorities <br />next Thursday evening. I appreciate your time and consideration. <br />Yours truly, <br />David F. Rowley Jr <br />13377 Europa Ct N #4 <br />Hugo MN <br />