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Patrick Pugh <br />725 Oickey Lake Onve <br />Orono. MN 55356 <br />612-449-6054 <br />August 17, 1998 <br />RE: Otten Brothers Nursery Greenhouse Addition <br />’B-'l <br />City of Orono <br />Attn. Ms. Elizabeth Van Zomeren <br />2780 Kelley Parkway. P.O. Box 66 <br />Crystal Bay, MN 55323 <br />Dear Ms. Van Zomeren: <br />Having received your notice concerning the planned Otten Brothers expansion, I wanted to bring to your <br />attention what, 1 think, is relevant information with respect to any further additions of the Otten Brothers <br />Nursery. <br />1 am a resident at 725 Dickey Lake Drive and, also, own the property directly behind the Otten Nursery. <br />My wife and 1 purchased the property'just subsequent to the Otten Brothers Nursery construction approval. <br />Frankly, we were not too concerned about the construction at the time thinking nursery would make a <br />good neighbor and we were, also, assured by some of our other neighbors that steps would be taken to <br />shield the nursery from ou. c nporty including burms and trees. <br />Unfortunately, what we’ve gotten is a direct picture of Otten’s garbage dump and motor pool, including <br />the noise that generates, in some instances, as early as 5:00 AM. Although there is a burm and trees across <br />the street which. 1 assume, was meant as a shield to any adjacent residential property, it is pitifully <br />inadequate. Since Otten’s, themselves, have put this unsightly mess behind their business cut of sight of <br />their own customers. I’m ceitain, they must have an appreciation of the need to shield their landscaping <br />operations from their every-day customers. However, their customers ’ gain is my loss, since I am required <br />to continuously endure the sight and sounds of that very untidy mess located adjacent to Dickey Lake <br />Drive, not too mention the fact that it will clearly have the affect of devaluing my property. <br />1 don t want to sound unreasonable but perhaps an adequate resolution to the problem would be the <br />construction of a fence to shield their landscaping operations from their neighbors. In any event, allowing <br />Otten’s to, potentially, create another eyesore before they clean up those they’ve already made, would be <br />very disappointing. <br />Sincer <br />Patrick Puuh <br />cc Otten Brothers Nursery