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Memo to Mayor and City Council Page 4 August 23, 2000 vehicle-related air emissions from truck traffic and from the juice storage and packaging operation itself and the increased visual impact from bright lights 24 hours a day. The allowed decibel levels stated in the petition are measured at the property line over a period of time. Nothing in the materials submitted by the applicant indicate any potential for exceeding state noise standards. All manufacturing activities will be conducted entirely within the building. Noise outside of the building will be generated from heating, ventilating and air conditioning units placed on top of the building; however, this type of equipment will not generate noise in excess of state standards and can be expected whether the development is industrial or commercial in nature. In regards to truck noise, trucks using the site will all be licensed for use on public roads and have to comply with state noise standards. Any Business Park use of this property will generate truck traffic, whether the proposal was for a single user such as Softpac or multiple users, which could occur should the property be subdivided into several lots for various tenants. With respect to traffic impacts, using the estimate of fifty trucks to the site per day for this use would generate an average number of 2.08 trucks per hour. Most of the shipping and receiving activities will occur during regular business hours of 6 a.m. - 8 p.m., thereby concentrating the truck traffic and increasing the average trucks per hour to 4.16 trucks per hour, or one every fifteen minutes. This is well within the design levels of the surrounding streets and will not have a significant adverse impact on safety. The surrounding streets were improved after the 1994 EAW identified the need to improve the intersection of Highway 10 and Orono Parkway. That lead to the design of the street layout as it currently is today. Loading activities for the storage tanks will occur in front of the building away from the residential areas. The building will serve as a noise barrier to the noise generated by the loading activity. The City's normal hours of operation are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. For deliveries and shipments outside of these hours, the use of back up alarms would not be allowed. Acceptable alternatives include the use of strobe lights, cameras or microwaves. No use of this property, including this proposed use would be allowed to exceed the state noise standards established by the MPCA. Noise levels will be monitored and measured for the first several months of operation to ensure compliance with the regulations. Any violation of the regulations would be required to be corrected. The MPCA also establishes acceptable levels for odor emissions from production facilities of all types. The design of the packaging process should eliminate almost all odors from the plant. If exceeding those levels are detected, the applicants will be required to implement measures to reduce the emissions. S:~PLANNING~MICHMC\CCREPRTS\CU00-28A.DOC