Rush Street Reconstruction Project_Boge Correspondencef~E~'E~~IED
Dan & Millie Boge
333 Villa St.
Dubuque, Iowa 52003
Subyect:Repaving Rush Street-20^7
07 APR -4 PM 4~ 35
City C:i~rl;~s Office
Dubuque, IA
To: To the Honorable Mayor of Dubuque 8 City Council Members.
My Wife 8 I own the property on the corner of Rush & villa Streets. We are
Petitioning the City Council to Exempt our property from the City of Dubuques
Directive, requiring a sidewalk when replacing a Street.
Our reasons are as follows:
1. The Lip~ll}ty both the city 8 ourselves would incur from snow gathering
on our property and running down the steep embankment ont^ the steep sidewalk
creating Ice at unknown times.
2. Sidewalk would be on the north side, whirl{. makes far partial melting 8~ ref-
reezing ^n a regular basis in the winter.
3. Avery large accumulating area, directly depositing water on the sidewalk.
4.A wall on ^ur property line would help putting a barrier space between
the sidewalk 8~ wall- However We were told the city has no money far that to happen.
5. There is a 27' drop in a span of 200' Whicka makes for a steep & slippery
slope.
6. We cannot watch for the ice to freeze, thaw 8 refreeze at different
hours of the day 8 night. We would make a reasonably good effort to place
salt when needed, but it is impossible for us to monitor this for 24 hrs
a day.
The sidewalk would g^ nowhere: That is probably the reason of none being
there now.
7. We walk our dogs regularly in the area for several yeaas, as do many
other people. We are very earful as to where we walknever going down a steep
sidewalk on the north shaded side ^f buildings, of evenvery steep streets
in inclement weather.
8. Wtrethink this would surly surprise someone that does not keaw the area,
and they could fall.
9. The steepness and the large gathering area above the proposed sidewalk
would create a constant flow of water onto the sidewalk when thawing.
10. We think this is creating a hazard where Wane exist now.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Daniel D. Boge
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