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On 4/26/11 @ 8:39am a "US Express" tractor trailer carrying a "Dollar General" trailer was observed using Wiltswyk Avenue, AGAINST posted signs and city ordinances, STRICLY forbidding the use of Wiltswyk Avenue for any purpose by Dollar General 18 wheeled tractor trailers for delivery and any vehicle over 3 tons.

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Last year the same event occurred with disastrous results. While coming out of the Dollar General parking lot, making the same left hand turn onto Wiltswyk Avenue the tractor of the 18 wheeler struck one of the trees on our property, ripped 1/2 of it down in between the tractor and trailer, severely damaging both the tractor and trailer requiring a heavy duty wrecker to remove both & severely damaged the tree.

This action required Kingston Police Department to close the entire intersection for a prolonged period of time, forced Kingston DPW into heavy amounts of overtime to remove the fallen tree from the tractor and trailer, required DPW to remove part of our tree (note: per city law....it is actually the City's tree due to the proximity to the street. Several private contractors that were contacted by us stated that the tree was terminally injured but that they could not do the work legally as the city owns the tree and the rights to take it down.) and required the City to contact Dollar General and advise them that they ARE NOT ALLOWED to use Wiltswyk Avenue for any means; which was clearly stated when Dollar General petitioned the City to build the store, access was to be from Foxhall Avenue ONLY!

I ask only that the city ENFORCE THE LAWS OF THE CITY!

I ask that the City contact Dollar General and issue a "cease and desist" order on their wanton disregard for established law.

Wiltswyk Avenue is CLEARLY posted that NO VEHICLES OVER 3 TONS are permitted access.

I also ask that the City stop dragging its heels and take the tree down in question as the tree is and has been a liability to our house; as stated in the estimates for removal by the private contractors we solicited.... imminent threat to life and property.

Remember, it is we as tax payers that will be liable for the damages the tree creates when (not if) it falls; on our vehicles, on our house, on a pedestrian or on a passing motorist.

Is the City comfortable with taking our daughters life granted? Our lives? An innocent passer-by's life???