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Mounds View City Council January 22, 2007 <br />Regular Meeting Page 2 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Mayor Marty indicated that he would contact Community Development Director Ericson and Mr. 2 <br />Perrozzi tomorrow to discuss this because there have been no plans before Council on this 3 <br />recently. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Council Member Mueller asked where this property is located. 6 <br /> 7 <br />Mr. Perrozzi explained his location. 8 <br /> 9 <br />Ella Shavonic of 7959 Sunnyside Road said she is circulating a petition on the 2006-2007 Street 10 <br />and Utility Improvement Project and most people are opposed so she would like to know why 11 <br />Council ordered a survey and estimates for road construction after the survey in 2006 revealed 12 <br />that most were opposed. 13 <br /> 14 <br />Mayor Marty indicated the new survey results came back differently. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Ms. Shavonic asked how the new Council Members feel. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Council Member Hull said that if residents could pay for this over 15 years he would not mind 19 <br />that but right now he is wavering in his support. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Council Member Mueller indicated that she has been looking into this and she does not know 22 <br />that concrete curb and gutter for all of the streets is appropriate based on the average income and 23 <br />demographic of the City. She then said that she thinks that there are some roads that could be 24 <br />replaced as existing or with surmountable curb. She further said that some shared use roads have 25 <br />requirements by Mn/DOT but she likes the country feel of the streets and she is not sure that 26 <br />concrete curb and gutter is the thing to do for every street in town. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Ms. Shavonic asked if Council has considered approving roads without concrete curb and gutter. 29 <br /> 30 <br />Mayor Marty indicated that he has discussed with Staff ways to assess less for concrete curb and 31 <br />gutter and noted that the overall increase in cost is $200 and no one makes bituminous curbs at 32 <br />the present time so there is a potential possibility that it would have to be created specifically for 33 <br />this City and that could end up costing more than $200. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Ms. Shavonic indicated that some people are concerned about which roads would need to be 36 <br />narrowed under this project. 37 <br /> 38 <br />Mayor Marty indicated that the standard width is 28 feet from face of curb to face of curb and the 39 <br />one road that the City was considering narrowing was Hillview but residents asked the City to 40 <br />leave it as it is. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Ms. Shavonic asked if homeowners with wide driveways would be allowed to maintain the 43 <br />width. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Mayor Marty indicated that at the curb cut the code is approximately 26 feet but the rest of the 46 <br />driveway can maintain its width. 47