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niE COPY January 16,2004 City of Orono 2750 Kelly Parkway P. O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 CITVof Attn: Planning Director, Planning Commissioners, City Council Members To Whom It May Concern: I am writing with regard to Planning Conunission Application #04-2977. It is my understanding that this is a request for a Con^tional Use Permit to operate a restaurant for which a liquor license will be requested on the lower level of the building containing the bowling the alley located at 3425 Shoreline Drive. Please note our strong objections to this application based on the following: 1.The access to this property is not off of a commercial street, i.e. Shoreline Drive, but rather off of a strictly residential street, Kelly Avenue. j 2.The doors to this establishment face directly at and immediately adjacent to townhomes and single family residential. The noise from these establishments has been shown to be excessive. By way of example. The Narrows Bar is the site of so much noise that we are unable to sleep with our windows open in the home. Not only can we hear the bands and crowds when the doors are open to the bar, but the symphony of Harley-Davidson music that commences from 10 PM until well after 1 in the morning awakens us from a deep sleep even when the windows are closed. The noise pollution is astounding. 3.Kelly Avenue is strictly a residential road that was never intended for coimnercial use. The City has previously closed roads that had excess traffic fuimeled through residential nei^borhoods (Old Orchard Road). A commercial use that will generate commercial traffic, particularly traffic that has been consuming alcohol, should not be allowed in a residential street. i