HomeMy WebLinkAboutA009 - Letter to ZBA from Tom and Kacie Purl June 8, 2011
Dear Members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment,
We would like to provide this letter of support for Brett Folkerts as he and his brother request
to continue operating their medical equipment business out of Brett's home at 327 Hartford
Drive in Ames.
We understand that one of the neighbors is complaining of the excessive FedEx and UPS truck
traffic up and down our street (Hartford Drive). We both work full-time, as do most adults on
our part of the block, so we only see one truck each weekday afternoon...if we are home and
outside. In our opinion,tine trucks corne and go within minutes and do so with little commotion
or noise. Our house sits less than 100 feet from "the business," and until our notification letter
of this hearing arrived in the mail, we were actually unaware that Brett and his brother even
operated the business out of the house.
The neighbor who is complaining needs to take his issues up with Brett and his brother directly
instead of wasting the time of city officials. If he thinks this neighborhood is going to be as
peaceful as Mayberry in the 1960's, he is wrong. It is a neighborhood full of young families with
an ever-increasing number of children, which means that the frequency of typical "child-related
disturbances" will be on the rise over the next several years. The neighbor who is complaining
about Brett's business will someday wish to trade that commotion for the days of a few parcel
trucks in and out of the neighborhood! Also, as the economy recovers and construction of new
homes starts up again in the development (Sunset Ridge), will this neighbor call the city to
require the developer to control truck traffic?
Please do not allow one citizen to speak for the majority of the neighborhood and force you to
step in from the outside to solve his issue. We are in support of Brett Folkerts and his brother
continuing to operate their small business out of Brett's home.
Thank you,
Ov11 a,
Tom and Kacie Purl
314 Hartford Drive
Ames, IA 50014