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REPRESENTING THE MANUFACTURER 7150 - 143rd AVENUE N.W. ANOKA, MINNESOTA 55303 TELEPHONE: (612) 427-9635 September 3, 1985 l'D: Ramsey Airport Commission Gentlemen: This letter is being written in my capacity as an owner of our company, located adjacent to the Gateway Airport and in response to your request for this kind of input. We purchased land in Ramsey some eight years ago and subsequently built our facility here. I recall the encouragement and offers Of special benefits from virtually every community that we looked at as a possible location. None came from Ramsey. Nonetheless, we saw the prospect for good compatible industrial growth since a few people had seen fit to set aside industrial pro- perty and designate a part of it to provide an airport to encourage that growth. It was on that strength that we built in Ramsey. I'm sorry to say that our dreams of quality industrial develop- ment around us have not materialized. We feel this has had an adverse effect on our property values as compared to the other communities that we had considered. Ramsey has officially indicated its desire for industrial develop- ment but!has done nothing of substance to encourage it. The airport improvement plan is the only proposal we have seen that was created primarily to fill this need. We pay about $1000 per month taxes for which we got a gravel street and we donated the land for the street. What I'm saying is that we want to be a loyal business neighbor to the Ramsey community but we would like something back for our tax dollar. The airport proposal is the only thing of benefit to us that we have seen to date. We, therefore, encourage this community to recognize the value of commerical development to the general good to of the community and endorse this project. Yours very truly, Charles B. Soderholm, Sr.