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Dear: City of Elk River I am the co-owner of Rothmeyer TEC, a wireless construction company based out of Anoka, MN (The "Company"). The Company specializes in cellular civil construction across Minnesota and neighboring states. I am asking the City of Elk River (the "City") to consider allowing the accessory structure and surrounding fenced in yard on my property located at 10208 209t' Avenue NW, Elk River, MN to be used as a home occupation by granting me an interim use permit to allow for the accessory structure and the surrounding yard to receive deliveries for the Company, store materials for the Company, to allow employees of the Company to park in the yard, and to allow for storage of certain vehicles. This is not a request to use the property in an industrial manner; activity will be limited. The goal is to utilize the property as a point place for certain equipment needed before employees travel to a job site and to allow the employees to meet at a central location. No production or manufacturing will be occurring on the property. My family and I will continue to utilize the property for its primary purpose — a residential home. Other than common maintenance, machinery and vehicles will not be worked on. Description/Scope of the Project. The property is about 13 acres in size. My family and I live at a residential home on the property. The accessory structure I am proposing to use is approximately 6,750 square feet. I would propose using a 20,000 square foot yard surrounding the accessory structure, which includes a fence surrounding the yard using 100% opaque material to shield and prevent anyone from being able to see the material being stored. I am proposing to use the accessory structure on the property and the yard surrounding the structure to receive deliveries for the Company and store materials. Deliveries would be received most often by a flatbed truck or trucks like trucks delivering Amazon packages. The vehicles making the deliveries will create limited noise, the "beeping" typically heard with semi -trucks will not be an issue. The property is still primarily being used as a residence, so deliveries would likely only occur one to two times per week. I would also like the Company to utilize the yard surrounding the accessory structure, for the purposes of parking Company vehicles, parking employee vehicles and storage of other Company material. Any materials stored in the yard would be properly screened. The employees will not be traveling to the property each day. They will travel to the property to drive together in a company vehicle to the job site, where they typically work for a week. There would be a limited increase in traffic. The request is consistent with the comprehensive plan. The property is zoned in the R-la district. The primary use of the property is residential, but I would also like to use the property for accessory use as allowed by City ordinance. The City does allow home occupations when permitted. The property is categorized as Rural Residential. Due to the nature and size of the property, neighbors are not close in proximity to the property, so the character of the district will be maintained. I have had prior conversations with the City and the Planning Commission about using the property in the manner described above. Due to those conversations, I am proposing the following conditions for the property: 4854-9338-8157, v. 1