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| Julie Merrill | 8/18/2024 4:37:39 PM |
| I am adamantly opposed to allowing a conditional use permit for a snow disposal site at Sand Lake and Dimond. This is an extremely windy area of town and there is already quite a bit of sand, gravel, and ash aloft when it's windy. The prevailing winds are south and easterly. I live directly down wind of this site. Unfortunately, trash accumulates extensively in these snow dumps, and would be distributed all over our neighborhoods during the melting season. Additional sand and gravel scooped up from the roads will be distributed right at us as well. Already, there are very few days where the breeze is minimal and we can open our windows for fresh air without the sand blowing inside our homes. This snow site would significantly add to the airborne pollutants. | |
| Andrea Snowden | 8/5/2024 11:49:32 PM |
| I strongly oppose the conditional permit for Alaska Sand & Gravel's snow disposal at the Polen Park Subdivision (Planning and Zoning Commission Case No. 2024-0087). The threat to local private wells and increase in large vehicle traffic on Sand Lake Rd is of great concern to me and should outweigh the money that Alaska Sand & Gravel would make with this permit. There are many homeowners on private wells nearby (some probably pre-dating any city well logs) that would be in danger of hazardous chemicals from snow dumped at this site getting into their water. Although AK Sand & Gravel may try to dump only "clean ' snow, there is no guarantee of that. With all of the chemicals from de-icing fluids at the airport, if there is any probability that these chemicals end up in the soil and eventually in the well water of nearby residents, this permit should be denied. There are also too many large commercial dump trucks already slowly down traffic on Sand Lake Rd (because of Alaska Sand & Gravel) that it is becoming dangerous. And the snow dumping at all hours of the day and night would be very disruptive for local residents. | |