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Page 1 of 1 <br /> <br />Sandy Peine <br /> <br />From: Oofduh [Oofduh@email.msn.com] <br />Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:20 PM <br />To: cityclerk@ci.elk-river, mn. us <br />Subject: city council <br /> <br />To whom it may concern: <br /> My name is Tim Benson, I've lived in Elk river for 30 years, I've seen the changes (and change is good) but one thing <br />that bothers me is the cutting of all the tree's. The thousands cut to build Menards and the ones cut for Target. <br />Everywhere there is a tree that can be cut that's where buildings will be built. Something needs to be done to try and save <br />some of these area's, and I'm not saying not to cut any tree's I understand that some have to, but to wipe out an entire <br />forest is crazy. We are teaching the children in school that recycling and reuse is a benefit to us all for the future <br />generations, but we have a city council that is not looking at the wide picture of our future. Elk River is growing very fast <br />and I feel that special consideration needs to be taken when permits are requested, where will this put us in 5 or 10 years, <br />what needs to be sacrificed for this particular project .... and so on. I am just an ordinary guy with ordinary friends <br />and this is a hot topic to the community, we cannot possibly be the only people worried by this. There are plenty of open <br />fields being used to put up housing devopements, why not expand the businesses to these areas, and leave the wooded <br />areas to smaller selective cutting for upper income housing developments. There are so many alternatives to destruction, <br />please return comment to this issue. <br /> <br />Concerned citizen, <br /> <br />Tim Benson <br />TimJBenson~hotmail.com <br /> <br />3/26/01 <br /> <br /> <br />