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stoppage or hindrance or a backup or danger of any kind since our <br />city council has provided through the MnDOT a turn lane. This is the <br />scenario in the morning when people are coming to work. There is <br />absolutely no danger or risk to any party. I fail to see the risk here. I <br />am sorry. If on the other hand the workers are coming from the <br />Autumn Street and parking, there is even less risk since Autumn <br />Street has no traffic at any time. Now let us look at the evening <br />scenario. <br />Even when the previous tenants were there I do not believe that <br />anybody went home backing out of the lot towards Lexington and <br />going home via Autumn Street. But in particular I, my wife and any <br />other workers never parked there since I heard of the dispute. The <br />city planner saw some cars there at one time. That was not us. That <br />was somebody in the neighborhood that parked there inadvertently. I <br />have not since then, allowed anybody to park there. Indeed in the <br />summer time I block the area off and put a no parking sign there. <br />Sorry for the digression. <br />Continuing, even if ine or my workers park there they would not be <br />backing into the Lexington Avenue by any stretch of imagination. <br />How is that a risk? <br />I would like to point out that even if a parker backed out towards <br />Lexington from the parking lot they would not even come close to <br />Lexington since there are 55 feet to go and the largest car we ever <br />built was only 18 feet! Moreover, if you are an American, you belong <br />[o the most experienced driver nation on earth. You need only 20 feet <br />or less to back your modern small car out to Lexington without <br />disturbing a thing on Lexington. The driver on Lexington will not <br />even see you! And of course if you are backing towards Autumn <br />Street then the risk is purely imaginary, to say the most. I just fail to <br />see the risk and to who and from where? <br />I hate to beat the point to death but I would like to remind you that <br />there are literally hundreds and thousands of households with more <br />than one car in their driveway right on Lexington and they back in <br />and out each day at least once if not more. I can see that they are <br />indeed a risk to traffic on Lexington and to themselves. But to be <br />honest I am not in the least bit worried about it. Why? Because we <br />are the most experienced driver nation on earth and we are very <br />courteous to each other by a very large margin. 1 have seen many <br />Americans slow down or even stop to let their fellow American get <br />out of his drive way. I do this all the time myself. <br />I have also attached crash data for Lexington Avenue between <br />Highway 36 and Larpenteur Avenue for the last 5 years. It is not easy <br />,-. � <br />