4.1. BASR 11-23-1999 - Laserfiche WebLink

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• To The Board of Adjustments of Elk River: For the past three and one half years,we, Gary and Shelle Perleberg have owned and operated-out of the commercial property at 817 Main Street in Elk River. Currently we and our employees are parking in front or near the building and most employees work a-four to-sip-hour shift. Because of the three-hour parking rule issued by the City of Elk River in the downtown area, we have to move our vehicles throughout the day.- Also, during the winter months due to snow removal,we have had to move our vehicles. We are open 10-to 12 hours daily Monday through Saturday.- This process of moving vehicles throughout the day does cut into our productivity time,ultimately affecting our profits and our employees have received a few parking tickets because they have not moved there vehicles in a timely manner. We have talked with adjacent neighbors who have parking lots, possibly to rent parking spaces. Everyone has told us no. We would also like to add that because of the additional parking needed during times of funeral visitations from the funeral home next door, we have been unable to find any parking for our delivery vehicle so we might reload and continue with our floral deliveries. We have contacted the City of Elk River for parking permits in front of our building so we might be exempt from the parking rule and to leave our delivery vehicle in front of the premises at night. We were issued two parking permits located by the Elk River Utilities parking lot because we had tennants living above our building on a full time basis. They only used these spaces at night and on weekends, leaving the spaces free during the day for Elk River Utility employees to park. These spaces would not currently help us as we would need three to four spaces directly in front of our building during the day to efficiently conduct our business. We are currently the only commerical building downtown that does not have off street parking. Our only alternative would be to put in a driveway on the east side of the building and a small parking lot on the south side of the building. There is enough space to put the driveway and parking lot in, give us access to our garage that is located on the southeast side of the property and enough space for our employees and delivery vehicle to park. This would also free up parking spaces in front for our customers. The site plan indicates the dimensions and it would flow with the current spirit and intent of other driveways and parking lots in the downtown area.