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Martin Reeder
From: Dustin Greenwald[dgreenwald@greenwaldsautobody.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:56 PM
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Martin Reeder
response to Design Guidelines and Best Management Practices
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Dear Martin;
I would first like to thank you for involving me in your processes. I too believe that it is important to involve the
local business community in these situations as we can sometimes be a valuable source of working information.
I have carefully reviewed the information you sent and have a few comments or impressions I would like to
extend.
I would like to applaud the City for finally taking a stand and setting or establishing standards by which collision
repair facilities should be required to operate and or be constructed. The information that you provided
encompasses the new federal and state requirements with regard to spray gun equipment, water bourne paint,
filters, spray booth equipment, emissions etc. The biggest problem we have always had in this industry is not that
there aren't laws to regulate all of the above; it is that the laws are not followed or enforced, the larger most
professional facilities normally have the equipment and BMP's in place and comply with the rules and regulations.
The smaller shops have a tendency not to obey the rules and regulations. The other thing that occurs in all cities
is that people come into the City and get a permit for a business other than a body shop and yet they provide
services that should be done at a properly permitted and run collision repair facility.
A few comments about the information that you sent:
#8 Parking
a. Parking should be provided for customers and employees and.
The City doesn't even provide off street parking for it's employees as the land costs would be very prohibitive
# 10. Building Access.
a. Although we trust our fellow team members, we do require that all everyone enter and leave the building from
front doors. This helps in controlling theft or misunderstandings.
# 12 Fencing
a. The information states that all storage areas should be screened. From our experience screening allows
undesirable people to have protection from being seen during the commission of a crime. We suffered
unbelievable numbers of thefts from our vehicles and customers vehicles there for repair. This normally
occurred at night or on weekends when you are not at the location. It is the same philosophy as not having
signs and banners in store windows preventing the police from seeing into the store.
Best Management Practices
#13 Inventory Control Practices
Excess (or waste) materials
We need to remove the term waste materials from that paragraph. Waste materials are just that, materials left
over from a job or jobs that cannot be reused. They need to be properly handled and processed and if need be
removed by a licensed waste removal company. They cannot be moved to or used by another shop or facility.
Excess paint should be handled by better inventory controls and sent back to the supplies if not needed. There
are a number of new laws dictating proper procedures. Government agencies can now go to our suppliers to
check our purchase records to see that we are not using too much of any one controlled substance.
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Everything else that you discussed people should be following and their shops should be properly equipped. We
need to start really checking existing shops to show compliance and carefully license new shops and only allow
them to occupy building that don't force them to break the law.
Thank You for your consideration and please feel free to contact me at any time.
Dan Greenwald
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