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• It is a very dangerous intersection right now. We have rush hour traffic where you can't even cross the street, and we have the community center over here now. We are going to have a movie theater. There is going to be a lot of traffic from the north part of Mounds View coming down Edgewood, they are all going to be using County Road I and Edgewood Drive intersection. I propose afour-way stop at that intersection should be part of this project. Mr. Collis stated all of this traffic will come into a funnel at County Road I and Edgewood. We have children that can't even cross the street now at certain times of day. The community center cannot be used during certain times of day because of the traffic. It is only going to get worse with this nice street that is going to be put in. Mr. Collis stated this should be postponed to make sure that intersection is part of this project." Mayor Coughlin stated the discussion is certainly legitimate, but it needs to be a separate issue. It can be a related issue, it doesn't have to be put off indefinitely. We can certainly discuss that and there is fair merit to the comments.. Mayor Coughlin requests staff to make note of that so we can further discuss this issue. Motion/Second: Motion to postpone approval of Edgewood realignment, and TH signal plans and specifications. Motion/Second: Quick/Coughlin. Motion to have a five minute recess. • VOTE: Ayes - 5. Nayes - 0. RESUME MEETING Mayor Coughlin calls the meeting back to order. Mr. Quick requests Mr. Long what legal ramifications what the City could incur on the intersection. Mr. Long stated it is a call of where the developer has obviously raised the issue that if there is a delay whether it is one week or longer, if they suffer some economic damage, they would at least maintain their option to seek remedies from the City and have claims like that against cities. Some have been successful and some have not. In fact, the vast majority are not. The issue is really a question of whether or not the delay would be considered a reasonable delay, whether or not it would be a good faith basis for it, so it is really quite a factual determination. Mr. Long stated he cannot tell you that delaying it tonight would be absolutely risk-free, but I can also tell you that in the analysis of risk, at least with cases I am aware of, that there is some discretion going to be a granted to a new Council for another two-week delay to get the information. It is quite different from some of the cases in what are considered unreasonable delays which have been months at a time. So I don't want to tell you that there is absolutely no risk because the delay could cause litigation and, of course, defend the Council. We believe we could win that, but I think it is a fair question, and I don't want to tell you that not to absolutely delay it tonight •