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c Larry W. Brokke 6795 20th Avenue Hugo, MN 55038 December 3, 1984 City Council City of Centerville Centerville, MN 55038 Dear Councilmen: I have attended two city meetings in the month of November. During those meetings I have clearly expressed my concerns and objections to the rezoning request by Sunrise Plastics and W & G Rehbein proper- ty from commercial to industrial. The W & G Rehbein property has been zoned commercial for at least the last 12 years. The Comprehensive Zoning Plan by Anoka County in conjunction with its city's, has been in place for approximately 5 years. The Comprehensive Zoning Plan spe- cifically describes the W & G Rehbein property as being commercially zoned. I have lived adjacent to this property under this commercial zoning for 9 years. I originally built the existing building. I operated a business on that property for approximately 4 years before W & G Rehbein obtained ownership. There had been no previous problems that directly affected my family. Indirectly the constant dumping of debris; filling the pond has been a concern along with sludge (e.i. which is sewage hauled from the Pig's Eye sewage plant) being dumped on the property approximately 3 times creating an atrocious oder causing nausea and the question, "Why are my neighbors choosing to create this obnoxious situation for me ?" It was at that time pointed out by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) that W & G Rehbein have never had a permit or temporary permit of any kind at any given time to dump sewage sludge on the property in question. It is obvious, W & G Rehbein have very little respect for the law or sludge would have never been dumped. Those inconvenience and problems have past. The present request for rezoning if allowed has serious ramifications for all adjoining property owners to some degree, through the effects of sanitation from debris created through the manufacturing of plastic products; noise pollution from the manufacturing process of their products; the noise created by the night shift workers when leaving in their automobiles; devaluation of property which occurs any time a parcel is rezoned to industrial and the adjoining property owners have made an investment based on a residential status and even more destructive devaluation occurs when the adjoining property owners have a home next to the property that maybe rezoned industrial. I have specifically pointed out the general problems that would be created for the adjoining property owners if the rezoning was to be granted. I will now try to describe the specific affects the rezoning . will have on my property. (Continued on Next Page)