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Planning & Zoning Board January 14, 2004 Page 4 APPROVED MINUTES sustained a development of this magnit ude. He stated ultimately interchange improvements would be necessary. He summarized for the Board the number of peak hour trips made in this development and not ed this was a large number of cars to be going through this area at one time. Chair Schaps asked if Mr. Swing had ever seen intersections like th is before. Mr. Swing replied he had and the way to solve the problem was to improve the intersection. Chair Schaps asked if he had included the poli ce officers at each of the intersections. Mr. Swing stated he had reviewed the existing report, which included the posting of police officers at the intersections. Mr. Swing expressed concern about the move ment of emergency vehicles through the area. Mr. Swing noted ordinarily he was not hired by a Church or a neighborhood, but he indicated this was not a typical Church and strongly suggested infrastructure improvement be put in place prior to the approval of this request. Chair Schaps asked if cities faced infrastruc ture problems daily with developments. Mr. Swing acknowledged all cities faced these problems. Chair Schaps asked him what he would do to try and relieve the congestion. Mr. Swing replied he would try not to exac erbate the problem. He stated he would try to provide for the citizens that were currently in the City. He stated if the church was built, he would suggest additional lanes were added at the interchange ramps and on Main Street and traffic signals added. Chair Schaps asked Mr. Swing, in his op inion, if having police officers at the intersections was a good idea. Mr. Swing replied for a very short period of time this was a good solution. Chair Schaps asked if there was anything ot her than police officers and infrastructure improvements Mr. Swing would recommend. Mr. Swing replied permanent infrastructure was the important element, but even some type of temporary infrastructure improvements would help. Mr. Tralle stated in his opinion, emergency vehicles were a rarity and delay would be inevitable whenever there was an emergency. Mr. Tralle asked what would generate a ro ad to get upgraded. Mr. Swing replied the degradation of the road system dictated wh en it would be repa ired and/or upgraded. Staci Wittner, 7542 Peltier Lake Drive, s howed a video of the Eagle Brook Church traffic. She stated the tape only reflected one of three se rvices. She noted she counted over 600 cars within a 35-minute period entering the parking lot. She stated her video did not show the front parking lot, so she ha d no way of counting those cars. Nor did the video show the back entrance. She indicat ed Highway 61 was also all backed up. She