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The Honorable Mayor Ted Tedesco
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
Ames, Iowa 50010 May 14, 1999
Re: Southern Hills Industrial Park, Second Addition
Southern Hills Drive, Ames, Iowa
The Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council:
As owners of the property locally known as the Southern Hills Industrial Park, we would
like to again ask you to consider waiving the sidewalk requirement for the General-
Industrial development. We respect the City's position on the sidewalk requirement;
however, we do not feel that sidewalks are appropriate in this development for the
following reasons:
1. A City bicycle path exists along Airport Road for pedestrian purposes.
2. There are no sidewalks along South Riverside Drive to connect with the
proposed sidewalks on Southern Hills Drive and Airport Road.
3. Security is a concern, especially in providing pedestrian access to Security
Self Storage units along the south side of Southern Hills Drive.
If you still feel that sidewalks are necessary for this development, we would like to ask
that you consider limiting sidewalks to only the north side of Southern Hills Drive, since
the south side is primarily storage units buildings and a water retention pond.
Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully,
Richard H. Sevde Trust
Marguerite Sevde Randy v e Karin Sev'e
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