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Attached is the design of the Directional monument sign that Guardian Angels is proposing, I could not <br />get to my file in MN for the write up that I had sent previously so please accept the information that I <br />have typed below in response to the staff's comments: <br />Narrative <br />Your application indicates what is being proposed but we need more information explaining: <br />What are the reasons/purpose for the proposed Ordinance Amendment? <br />The general public and the constituents of Guardian Angels as well as other occupants of 508 Freeport <br />are having difficulty discerning the location of the building which is assigned an address of 508 Freeport <br />but in actuality is physically located one block off and off to one side of Freeport. This lavational <br />deficiency makes finding the property very difficult and unreasonable as common sense navigation is <br />not effective. The driving public is not only forced to navigate inefficiently and with poor results but it <br />also poses a continuing safety hazard to the drivers on Freeport as drivers routinely are forced to hunt <br />for the address on the actual road where such address is not readily apparent causing drivers to slow <br />down and even stop in the middle of the road as they attempt to look for a building on Freeport that is <br />not there. <br />What has changed to warrant the Ordinance Amendment? <br />As the City of Elk River has grown and as Guardian Angels has also grown and also relocated the main <br />offices as well as significant services, programs and meeting space to the building the number of users, <br />visitors and drivers has increased dramatically causing an increasingly difficult and dangerous situation <br />for not only occupants and visitors to the 508 Freeport building but also to all the drivers that commonly <br />utilize the Freeport route. <br />What are the benefits to the City? <br />First and foremost this change would help eliminate the dangerous situation on Freeport caused by <br />drivers searching for the 508 building as descried. In addition the change would benefit the general <br />public by providing information to the destination that truly cannot be discerned with navigational <br />common sense utilized by the general public. Simply said since the address, (from a common sense 12 <br />3 perspective), does not exist on the actual Freeport roadway and since the building is also not readily <br />visible from the actual roadway (within the normal drivers safe driving field of vision distance), this <br />directional monument sign physically provides for the location of the "address" as well as the identifying <br />"name" of the location that drivers are searching for on Freeport. <br />Dan will be attending the meeting as I am out of town until 12-10-15; any questions, comments or <br />concerns please email and also call me on my personal cell phone at 612-685-0373. <br />Thank you!! <br />Ronald J. Touchette <br />