Letter - Hopkins village clubJune 12, 1982
Hopkins City Council
1010 South First Street
Hopkins, Minnesota 55343
Gentlemen:
HOPKINS VILLAGERS CLUB
9 Seventh Avenue South
Hopkins, Minnesota 55343
The Hopkins Villagers Club is an organization made up of tenants in
the Hopkins Village Apartments. As president of this club I have
been asked by the membership to write you in complaint of the noisy
disturbance each Friday and Saturday nights along Excelsior Avenue.
The traffic situation makes it almost impossible for people living
4111 here to leave their apartments either on foot or by car. It is
unsafe to go out to our own parking lot due to cars from the street
driving through our lot at excessive speeds. The management has
called the police but they just look and go away.
The noise created by loud exhaust systems and burning rubber when
starting up is unnecessary and very disturbing. Radios in cars
are played at their highest volume and drowned out the sound of
anything else in the building.
Young people are permitted to sit on street corners and on a wall
on the edge of our parking lot and scream and yell at the passing
cars. These same people are exploding fire crackers creating a lot
of unnecessary noise.
The Champion Auto Store parking lot across the street is also a
source of a lot of disturbances. We have seen the police chase
the same cars out of there three times in an evening.
We believe if the police would issue some tags for unnecessary
noise, driving with one or no headlights, etc., this problem could
be corrected. The merchants in Hopkins cannot gain anything from
this parade of cars and they no doubt hinder people from visiting
Hopkins on Friday or Saturday nights due to the traffic congestion.
Your attention to this matter would be appreciated and an expression
of your feelings on it would be appreciated as well.
Sincerely,
D. P. Bissonette
President