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1 <br />FEB-sFA �i <br />CITY OF ORI ON'j <br />Clifford L. Otten <br />P.O. Box 268 <br />Long Lake, MN 55366 <br />January 22, 1986 <br />To: Orono City Council <br />1 would like to bring before you an alternative to the proposal <br />for a full --service nursery and garden center located on Highway <br />12 east of Long Lake. As I stated in that proposal, our present <br />location is no longer big enough for our entire operation; i.e., <br />a retail nursery and garden center, landscape design, book- <br />keeping, and landscape crews and equipment. But it ie a good <br />size for Just a retail nursery and garden center. <br />Thus, the alternative to relocating the entire business would be <br />to move the landscape designers and the office staff to my <br />property located at 1740 West Wayzata Blvd. (County Road 6 i <br />Highway 12, next to the market). There is also plenty of room on <br />the 18 acres fur the landscape equipment and materials including <br />trees and shrubs in holding areas, stock -piles of dirt, a+ind, and <br />rock icy bins, landscape timbers and other miscellaneous <br />landscape --related items. <br />Along with this, there would be a need for a building to store <br />equipment such as lawn mowers, chainsaws, tractors, tree mover, <br />and other equipment that needs to be under cover. This building <br />would need to be no bigger than 60' X 100', and I would consider <br />a pole -barn type structure adequate. <br />All access for this proposed use would be from County Road 6, and <br />the only increase in traffic would be from the employees working <br />there. There would be no cash and carry sales, and very little <br />reason for our customers to visit the site. <br />I an ■aki.ig this proposal in an effort to solve my problems and <br />reaain in this area with my business. There are many factors <br />which, in ■y opinion, make this an acceptable use for this <br />property. It is bound on two sides by major highways, on a third <br />side by a market; across one highway to the north is a gun club; <br />across the other highway is it railroad, with greenhouses and <br />kennel beyond it. <br />With the nursery stock already growing on this land and with the <br />ability to keep people and equipment rignt there, it would work <br />very nicely. <br />Thank you. <br />Clifford L. Otten <br />