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,~ ~ / , ~ _ f~ -l 1 ~u~ ~ ~ 2~» <br />I-~.6cc.~- C~-d.~~ -~+u <br />Written Objection to the Proposed Assessment for the Elk River 201 Street Improvement <br />Project <br />Issue: The formula for calculating the amount of assessment to each business in the Industrial Park bordering Industrial <br />Blvd, Triangle Road, and 192"d Court is unbalanced and not fair. <br />Method Used: 50% of the assessment was on a "per unit" basis and 50% was based on lineal feet of street bordering <br />each property. <br />Whv this is unfair: <br />1. In manufacturing and warehousing, unlike retail, the amount of visibility due to road frontage or access has <br />little to no effect on the success of your business. The only purpose a road serves is to allow access for your <br />employees and for the transportation of your raw materials and products. This industrial park is virtually all <br />manufacturing and warehousing, with a two small office buildings. <br />2. In the specific case of Dynetic Systems, we happen to be located on the inside of the curved corner of Industrial <br />Blvd. and thus have a large amount of street exposure. Since our business is national in scope and highly <br />technical in design, our success is not dependant on customers seeing or traveling to our place of business. We <br />gain no benefit from this specific location in the industrial park on the inside of the turn. Since our product is <br />small and high tech, we use standard UPS or FedEx step vans to ship our product and receive raw material. We <br />rarely have semi-truck deliveries of raw material (est. 12/year). We always use our parking lot for <br />loading/unloading. <br />3. By contrast, the business across the street from us relies almost exclusively on heavy trucks for delivery and <br />shipment, and regularly uses the street in question rather than his parking lot to load heavy machinery on <br />flatbeds using large forklifts. This business buys and resells used heavy machinery. Anytime you steer a solid <br />tire of a stationary heavy vehicle such as a forklift, as is typical when loading a flatbed, a lot of stress is put on <br />asphalt; and thus much of the damage to our street is probably due to this neighbors practices. <br />4. Another business further around the turn with more sales volume than our business has very little street since <br />they are on the outside of a turn and only have a small wedge of street access for their driveway. They regularly <br />get deliveries of steel and aluminum by flatbed. <br />Our Proposal for a Fair Calculation Formula: <br />Since the council seems opposed to using solely a "per unit" basis for calculating the assessment, we would propose <br />that the 500 of the assessment currently based on lineal feet of street exposure be based instead on square feet of <br />land owned by each property. This statistic should be easily obtainable by using plat maps and/or property tax <br />assessments. <br />Justification: In manufacturing and warehousing, potential earning power (and thus your ability to pay a special <br />assessment) of your property is much more closely proportional to the amount of land you have and not how much <br />street you have. The few offices in this park rely on methods other than visibility to generate foot traffic. <br />Kurt Sadler <br />Representative for the family that owns Dynetic Systems at 19128 Industrial Blvd <br />