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Aleda Feuerbach
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"Aleda Feuerbach" <aleda@pleasantvalleyic.com>
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11 :13 AM
Gilbert Street & Highway 6 Road Construction Concept Plan
Gentleman and Ladies:
I am writing in regards to the city's plans for the Gilbert Street and Hwy 6 intersection in the coming months.
Pleasant Valley Garden Center at 1301 South Gilbert Street has been on this corner since 1961...We are a locally owned and
operated business with Iowa City as our home since 1952. We have changed our business because of needs by the city for Gilbert
Street at least twice in that time frame....including reducing our store square footage so that we could keep parking & frontage on
Gilbert Street
The Concept Plan that you are considering for the latest Gilbert Street improvements will harm and damage us greatly.
You are suggesting that we service our Garden Center & Flower Shoppe customers from our back door---some 120' from our
current front entrance, and in the process turn a private alley into a dangerous thoroughfare. In addition you would take away our
display areas, accesses and parking areas in the front of our store.
We will not be able to provide the service (in a competitive service business) with the concept plan that the city is suggesting.
If we could survive the proposed changes in access, parking and display space, the construction time that you are planning
would severely restrict any seasonal spring/summer business that we would have.
Our concerns have been voiced to the City Engineers and Planning Staff prior to this writing.
Based on what we have been told and seen on the drawings as proposed, it will be difficult to continue in business as we know it
today.
In a related matter, our family owns the property at 1225 & 1226 Gilbert Street These are presently rented with happy tenants. Your
concept plan shows an "X" thru the building at 1226 and you propose taking more parking and access from 1225 along with changing
the in/out convenience for it's car and truck traffic. These plans will severely limit how they do business. We do not want to jeopardize
our agreements with our tenants, nor have their location on Gilbert Street adversely affected because of City of Iowa City proposals.
i\,nythill9 that you do on Gilbert Street near or close to the intersection will adversely affect our businesses. We would ask you to
reconsider your present "Concept Plan".
Sincerely, MLQ4(/lM~
Aleda Kroeze Feuerbach
Generai Manager
Pleasant Valley LP & Inc.
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