Area Residential Care Vacation of Land at 2455 Kerper Blvd.
Area Residential Care, Inc.
Empowering people with mental disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.
1170 Roosevelt St. Ext. . Dubuque, Iowa 52001 . (319) 556-7560
Jon Romaine
Executive Director
August 3, 2000
Dubuque City Council
City Hall
Attn: City Clerk
50 W. 13th Street
Dubuque, IA. 52001
Dear Mayor Duggan & Council Members:
Area Residential Care would like to request that the City of Dubuque vacate a portion of the
parcel of land that separates our property at 2455 Kerper Boulevard from Kerper Boulevard itself,
so that this land could then be donated or sold to Area Residential Care. The portion that we are
requesting is 22 feet from the current boundary by 230.21 feet (as shown on the enclosed).
Area Residential Care is making this request because ofthe need to acquire different parking
for staff at our Vocational Services Center building on Kerper Boulevard. Recently an agreement
with our neighbor to the south, Coke, which provided us parking space at the back of their
property, has been put in jeopardy. Because ofthis, we could lose up to 30 parking spaces that are
in daily use by our staff. With the property available to us at this location, and the easements that
are in place, the green space in the front of the existing building is the only place that we have
available to add parking spaces.
We have been in contact with the city engineering department, and Mr. Turner advised us that
this request was the way to go about attempting to acquire the needed land from the city. He also
informed us that a number of businesses located along Kerper are doing the same, and that it may
take up to several months to complete the process. If it is at all possible, I would ask that you
expedite our request as much as possible, because Coke has set a deadline for their decision on our
forfeiting the use of their land that is much sooner than 3 months.
Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request.
Jon Romaine
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