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-176- <br /> <br />From: eric zaetsch [mailto:ezaetsch@hotmail.com] <br />Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 4:28 AH <br />To: Brian Olson <br />Cc: jands1999@hotmail.com; jfeges@ramsey03.com <br />Subject: AUAR - Ramsey Town Center LLC - acoustic & seismic/geotech consultants?. <br /> <br />Re: Ramsey Town Center, LLC -- AUAR - Night-time Acoustic Data and Analysis - <br />Vibrations & Oeotechnical Data and Analysis -- Social Noise/Vibration Impact Study, <br />Especially for Rental Housing Turnover Effects <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Olson <br /> <br />write as a concerned citizen. <br /> <br />Does John Feges live next to a railroad? Do you live next to a railraod? Does Mayor <br />Gamac? Does Councilmember Kurak? DoesCouncilmember Cook? Do any of the <br />other cc~uncilmembers? Councilmember Pearson is fairly close, I understand. Well,. once <br />I lived a quarter-mile from one, a relatively quiet urban line, in New Orleans. Even that <br />was noisy. Councilmember Kurak may have been in the City when the ~quipment was <br />still operating at the landfill, and may remember that noise. Perhaps the Kuraks moved in <br />later, after the landfill closed, but they can ask people who lived north of it. Actually, I <br />guess John Feges already knows people like it quiet when they sleep at night, and the <br />LLC has ideas and good plans already. Yet [[ think the City owes itself the time and <br />effort of checking. <br /> <br />Staff is probably aware of the question of vibration effects on foundations, basements <br />especially. I expect that there are soil related standards, and vibration related standards, <br />but it seems to me that to work out break-even analyses such a factor should be <br />measured and made Icnown to City staff, up front, in the AUAR process, so that enhanced <br />reinforcing, special grades of concrete, ~vhatever, can be factored into cost <br />projections from the beginning. <br /> <br />I kmow that Shatmon & Wilson is the preeminent soils and geoteclmical firm, <br />nationwide. I had the chance to talk to Bill Shannon a bit, in Seattle, before he retired. I <br />have just returned from the ramsey03.com website, the one, where, when you bookmark <br />the site (Netscape) or set a shortcut or favorite (Microsoft fnternet Explorer), ft comes up <br />on your files directory as "City of Rarnsey". They are not the City of Ramsey. The City <br />of Ramsey is the City of Ramsey. Somebody should tell Feges that it is really offensive <br />when this bookmark comes up for them, and not for the City itself, and it would be nice <br />PR if they simply and quietly corrected things by doing away with that website eh'or. <br />Nobody else has bothered to mention the offensiveness of it to Feges, so I am will copy <br />this to him. <br /> <br />Anxyway, I see no AUAR geotechnical consultant listed Oll the site. Also, 7[ see no <br />acoustic consultant. <br /> <br /> i <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> 1 <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />