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SCHERER <br />�BROTHERS <br />LUMBER <br />COMPANY <br />4797 Hwy, l0 + Arden Hi11s, MN 55112 <br />Ph�one 612-379-9633 • Fax 65i-638-1411 <br />www schererbros.com <br />February 6th, 2008 <br />Greg Hoag <br />City of Arden H�IIs <br />1245 West Highway 96 <br />Arden Hil1s, MN 55112 <br />Dear Greg; <br />As a fiollow-�up #o our conversatinn las� Friday, I'm praviding some quantitati�e <br />information relati�e ta the �e�ricle traffic at our Arden Hills yard. Ti�is is esse�tially the <br />same information I presented at the January 28th council meeting and 1 would ask you to <br />pass this letter a4ong to the council rrjembers. <br />We are currently running lumber deliveriEs out of our sit� from 6:00 AM through 3:OD PM <br />or later as demand requires. The Arcien Hills truck fleet averaged 17 round trips per day <br />oui of our yard in January. The avarage in June was 23 raund trips per day. ln a <br />stronger market we could easily see 3Q% rr�ore trips. <br />Our 45 employees average approximately 65 round tr�ps per day. We also have many <br />ver�dor clelivery trucks (mostly with 44' trailers} and a sieady stream of customer trafFic <br />as well as vehicles #rom our other retail yards and manufacturing �acilities defivering or <br />picking up materiaf throughout the day. All in all I would say conservatively we ha�e 10Q <br />�ehicles each and every week day exiting our yard onto Highway 90, where the posted <br />speed is 5� miles per hour. <br />One of our company's core �alues is safety — for our ernployees, our customers and <br />those we encounter in ihe course of our work. We have been fortunate to have a�oid�d <br />a major accident i� the more than 22 years Scherer Brothers has occupiecf the Arden <br />Hills location, but sending that many vehicles onto a busy highway every day is a cause <br />for concern. <br />As a i�usiness decision, we support any plan to rework the Highway 10 and 96 areas <br />wh�ch will aliow [as to operate with a higher le�el of safety for our employees, aur <br />custamers and alf thase tra�eling past our faciliiy. Please contact me if you would like <br />additional informatian about our operatior�. <br />Sinc y, <br />Paul Legrid <br />Generai Manager <br />Scherer Broth�ers Lumber, Arden Hills <br />659 -fi38-1 �70 <br />Copy: Mark Scherer, Chief 4perations Officer, Scherer Bros. Lumber Comparty <br />i]a�e �Ison, Facifties Manager, Scherer Bros. Lurriber Company <br />Schercr Bros. Yards: Albertville, Arden.Hi[Is, Hopkins, 1Viineeapulis, Shakopee • Scherer Bros. Cabinet Division <br />Scherer Sros. 77uss Division • Allegiance Miilwork Soiutions • Scherer Bros. Marketing Services <br />