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September 12, 2015 To: Fred Mensing From: Rusty Roberts Below is the information you requested relating to AAF stations, Quiet Zones, and AAF operations as compared to other regions. All Aboard Florida Stations Platform requirements: 900-1000 Feet Acreage requirements: Flexible, determined by location, anticipated scope and frequency of service. Treasure Coast or Brevard stations would be smaller in scale than what is anticipated in Palm Beach and Broward Counties. Station development would not necessarily require transit oriented development. However, there may be private development interest from outside parties. Any additional development would be subject to local zoning and land use restrictions. Note: AAF's West Palm Beach station will encompass approximately three acres, including additional transit oriented development. Fort Lauderdale equals 6 acres, Miami, 11 acres. In determining feasibility of a station, AAF would look at ridership potential vs operational cost of anticipated service to be provided. Other factors may include proximity to residential neighborhoods, employment centers, access to major highways and other transportation systems, available land adjacent to right of way, private development interest from others, growth potential. AAF would undertake and fully fund a ridership and market study. Note: AAF issued a public statement regarding the process for consideration of an expansion station in February 2015. Public officials throughout the Treasure Coast were provided copies of our statement. Quiet Zones: Statement by AAF President Mike Reininger, published September 4, 2015 in the Treasure Coast Newspapers: All Aboard Florida remains committed to working with each community along the rail corridor to advance public safety, decrease noise and interruption and find ways to improve the realities associated with the integration of the railroad and the adjacent communities that have grown up together over the past century. The safety standards we are implementing in the Treasure Coast exceed those in the counties to the south, the expense to secure quiet zones should be even smaller than experienced elsewhere. Successfully achieving the same results is an issue of cooperation, not cost. AAF hopes to achieve a level of cooperation in Indian River County that was effectively used in southern counties to achieve quiet zones at very little public cost. AAF will soon complete 90% designs plans for Indian River County which will be delivered to county and city engineering staffs for review and comment. This process begins a dialogue that will result in final designs and full comprehension of additional work required (if any) to fully qualify for quiet zones throughout the county. Realization of quiet zones will not require additional engineering and design work by county and city governments. AAF will complete all design and construction and, upon agreement with the locality, will pre -fund any local costs should they be required. However, under FRA regulations, actual applications for quiet zones must come from the local municipality. AAF will assist local