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W HYMAN FRElGHTWAYS,/NC. ST A TKMENT OF HYMAN FRF:IGHTW A YS, me. TO THE ROSRVTI.LE CITY COUNcn, Octohp.r 14, 1qqfi Hyman Freightways opposes the Comprehensive Plan Amendment to reroute the proposed Twin Lakes Parkway as currently recommended in the BR \V consulting report. Although the new route was apparently intended to minimize disruption to Hyman's business and its facilities, the study inadvertently did not include in its maps and plans Hyman's maintenance building located east of its main facility. As a result, the Parkway is scheduled to run directly through a substantial part of this "missing building." (See the enclosed copy of Figure 8 from the BR\V report.) Hyman cannot continue to operate if the Parkway is built as planned without significant construction and relocation costs. Hyman Freightways' Roseville terminal was built in 1964. Hyman came to Roseville because the location was attractive and adequate land was available. At that time, the City ofRoseville encouraged the trucking industry to locate in Roseville, which is midway between Minneapolis and St. Paul and offers easy access to each city as well as the interstate system through 1-35,1- 694 and 1-94 In 1976 we tripled the size of our dock and maintenance buildings. The terminal and office areas now total-l01,000 square feet. The maintenance building is 26,500 square feet. There are 250 employees with a total payroll of over S 13 million annually including fringe benefits. Approximately 125 over-the-road units are dispatched or run through Hyman's Roseville tenninal every 24 hours. Approximately 10,000 square feet of office area at the Roseville tenninal would have to be removed to accommodate Stage 1 of the new proposed roadway. This would require constmction of a new building to provide the necessary office space. In addition, a portion or the dock would be taken. To complete the Twin Lakes Parkway plan proposed by the consultant, Stage 3 of the project would require substantial reconstruction of our maintenance building. As proposed, the roadway would take the land on which two of our five trailer repair bays are located. This is not adequate to handle our trailer repairs and would require us to construct additional bays to accommodate our trailer repairs. A critical safety issue would be created by our trucks' continued use of the safety lane in our maintenance building, which would exit directly onto Twin Lakes Parkway. As planned, the new roadway would be located so close to the safety lane exit that it would not allow enough turning radius for the trucks to safely enter the new park.-way, Another major problem is created by the fact that traffic going south on the Arthur Street portion of the new roadway would run parallel to our safety lane. As a result, it would be very difficult for a driver to see a vehicle coming up behind him as he entered Twin Lakes Park:\vay. Also, our driver wouldn't be able to see traffic moving east until he entered onto the new roadway. Both of these present very serious safety problems. General Office · P.O. Box 64393 · Sf. Paul · MinnesDta · 55164 · (672) 784-5030