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-128- I am the President and CEO of a company directly south of the site. Our address is 6180 140th Ave NW. Our building faces to the north. I also own the building in a separate partnership. I am a business owner that has customers coming in on a dally basis to visit our facility. With the expansion of the facility across the street this brings up a number of questions. When Marshall took over the facility from the past company (AMCON, , they have expanded their storage space to the east of the building with sand and gravel on a cement slab with cinder block walls. This essentially tripled the amount of onsite storage along with deliveries of sand, gravel, rock and cement by heavy delivery vehicles on an hourly basis. These deliveries by the heavy trucks and construction vehicles vibrate the front of our building. Some vehicles make the building and windows vibrate so much that it is hard to talk inside our front offices of our building. I understand there is a conditional use permit that allows this facility to operate in this location, however; is the city aware that by expanding to an additional tower that would increase the existing problems to a higher level. Some of my concerns are listed below: · Additional traffic of heavy vehicles. · Is the city street 5 ton or 9 ton? (Deliveries to and from the facility come bY heavy vehicles). There is no direct access from the facility to a county road. · Dirt is constantly-being pulled from the facility to the street. · Dust clouds from the equipment hover over the area. · Noise from the heavy vehicles vibrates and creates a hearing impairment. · The builc~!'~ is a legal non-conforming structure;' by adding another tower allows additional expansion of this building. Expanding or increasing the non- conformancies? · This is a constant construction area and the noise, will never stop. · Dust covers all my employees cars · This whole area we are in, is considered general business/light industrial. Does this business fit the zoning of the area? · A variance would be needed for the. addition of the tower. Would the approval of the variance add more problems than it is worth? · There are small trees on a short bu~m; they do not block any noise or visual from the operation of the facility. Equipment backup alarms are operating noise impact~- · Road access to 140th or Unity, address on CUP is Unity; Sign on property is 6100 Industry, Why most deliveries to and from site off of 140Th? · Outlot B? Who owns both A and lB? I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I