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coming May it will be 30 years that I have owned that house. There was a year and a half, I told you during our conversation that I was disabled and had not a lot better to do but look at the lake and look at the traffic and by my observation approximately 1/3 of the people run that stop sign. I have a real big issue with safety of having only a marked crosswalk at that stop sign. At one point in my life, when I was told by a former Chief of Police that there have no deaths, no injuries, no accidents and we have to put our resources elsewhere in the city. I get that, I could just complain, but last Friday night, shortly after it got dark my daughter whose in the back there said, "dad, why is that truck in our yard?" and I looked up and it wasn't a truck, it was a semi, and it was more than 8' on my property on County Road I past the landscaping rocks I have out there. That's one of many stories I could tell you and if there was a walking trail or crosswalk over there, well; you know what could happen. Anyway, that would be a good thing to bring up to Parks meeting that they should hear a story like that. That guy ran right thru the stop sign, he was either sleeping, drunk, or playing with his phone driving with a Class A license or whatever they have, not a good idea. Couple other questions I have for you, when they take these traffic counts you mentioned that they don't like to do it when buses is on the road because that messes up , average. That's nine months out of the year, I not a statistician, but that's over half the year. DP — I completely understand and raised the same concern that we are missing traffic. Those are their rules and that we have to follow. By no means that does not mean that we cannot go out there and catch some of that traffic. Those traffic counts go on all the MSA streets, they indicate when we put those out there and again, it is not during the school year. BK - That does make sense, I don't see the traffic counts on say Spring Lake Road from County Road I to Bronson and other parts of Spring Lake Road out there and I would love to see all of it. DP — I think that is something we can get posted, out on the website BK - Some of them may not be that different but I would just like to see it. One other question I have for when talk about the ROW, would the clearing be done, I think you may have answered this already, not all the way to the property line? DP — I know on the plans there right now it is indicating we have a lot of trees to remove, but again, we have not done the final review. I can tell you on other projects we have not gone right to the edge of the property and removed every single tree, we look at that to see what is in there, and to see what trees should be removed for safety and what trees we can actually save. BK - When you say for safety — what does that mean, plow drivers? DP — No, it's actually for someone driving down the road. BK - So how many feet from the side? DP — I was going to ask Tyler that, what clearance. Back to the ROW line? Tyler — That is typically not required for a 30 MPH road. It's not the requirement for a 30 MPH road. So if I have tree that's approximately 3.5 feet in diameter about 3 or 4 four feet from the edge of the road it may not get cut down if it does not have to be for construction. DP — I would tell you that it's case by case, we look at that. 44:08 9