09-28-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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April 11, 1983 i Robb Jr. PCITY FORONk" Hennepin County CommissionerHennepin County Coverrent Center300 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear Mr. Hobby we, the undersigned neighboring residents, must register our complains concerning the county 'Transportation Department Truck Statior located on County Road 15 at Dunwoody Avenue In Orono. While the area is zoned residential and quite heavily Populated, the following activities take place with regularity, I. Storage, mixing and hauling of materials for asphalt road repair. 2. Storage, mixing and hauling of salt and and for snow and ice control. 3. Dead elm storage and processing including cutting and chipping. 4. ,:ad of trucks and loaders used in the above activities with resultant, a. Use of truck air horns as a means of communication. b. Warning bells sounding as vehicles back up. c. Hanging of steel boxes and tailgates when sand and gravel is dumped. No attempt has be,n made to screen the facility visually from the surrounding residences and the constant nolee pollution, (continuing often past y P, nI.), is certainly a violation of standards for residential areas both statutory and civil. We must go a step further and demand that the station's use be investigated, that the activities of an industrial nature ceaue, and that its uses be restricted to those more compatible with a residential area such as a visu vehicle storage and maintenance area. ally screened In conclusion, we recognize that the station is bordered on the north by railroad right-of-way, but while the four or five trains a week are no core than a pleasant diversion, the county facility is a nearly constant, and growing, irritation that is completely uncal lea for. Thank you for your attention to this matter. eerl�pyl,� " !s .:. /�.r�so�nd :Arnaru of attaaheb page. Copier,, amity of Sprinrr Park Officials .•ity of Orono 4fflclals