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up here lives adjacent to my property and is talking about, he would lose half his front yard, I live right
<br />next door to him, the gentleman that was talking about his driveway goes underneath his home, lives
<br />across the street from me, so you can see it's on the corner where Spring Lake comes down and turns
<br />onto the lake. So the road is between my home and the lake. With this project, if they expand it, to
<br />include a gutter system and sidewalk or pathway, on the east side I would lose 95% of the trees on my
<br />property, there is absolutely no room for expansion on that road and quite frankly, in all the 65 years
<br />that I have been there, I have never seen a water problem unless there is an ice dam on the water drain
<br />that is in front of my home. Other than that, the road is in really good shape, there are no potholes, the
<br />road is in excellent shape, in fact they just did all the markings for the side and center line. My point is,
<br />more directed to some of the statistics, first of all, this statistic from Hillview Road to County Road I,
<br />which I am in the middle of I would really like to, my thoughts are that's absurd — I just can't see 1,000
<br />cars running past my home on a daily basis. I have been there for 65 years, I just don't see that kind of
<br />traffic. As far as foot traffic, I live walking distance to Spring Lake beach, and, since the water table/
<br />level have been so low on Spring Lake, for years, the beach has been closed so it eliminated most of the
<br />traffic. We do see traffic on County Road I, that sidewalk — so, with that said, if they were going to put a
<br />walkway on Spring Lake Road, it would meet with the walkway on County Road I, which would put that
<br />walkway on the west side, on the lake side. However, I will go with the guy that said his property/
<br />driveway goes under his garage his home, that part of the street does not accommodate for that, it's
<br />just not wide enough. Of course none of these are questions, these are all comments in my opinion, I
<br />just don't see the need for this kind of an update and project. Thanks for listening. 51:37
<br />51:44 Liz Klisch 8217 Spring Lake Road —My husband bought this house in 1984, when I met him, one of
<br />the things I remember, I grew up down in northeast with the Elms as the canopy, heartbreaking loss
<br />when they cut those down, did not have to take them all, but they cut a lot of them at that was one of
<br />the attractions of that street, was the canopy of those Oaks, their healthy trees, you can't be taking
<br />those down. The thing on Spring Lake Road, it is a pass-thru, we need traffic to slow down, somebody
<br />brought up speed bumps, I deliver for a living, there's speed humps, where it's not that, it slows traffic
<br />down, that would be amazing. As far as the traffic counters you talk about, when we were kids, we used
<br />to jump on them so I don't know how accurate that is, we used to stand and jump on them, we used to
<br />do that all the time as kids. Ok we have to do it four times because that would be one car, we did that.
<br />We have, in our front yard, a Cotton Wood, that the base of the tree is 8 feet, there is no way you are
<br />going to replace that, the shade of that covers probably about 7 houses, I don't know, its huge, but you
<br />probably know, it's one of the biggest trees on the street. So, you can't replace those, not in our
<br />lifetime are we ever going to see those trees, ever. OK, and to take down, or even to do anything, if
<br />you're going to take those Oaks down, we lost two healthy Red Oaks due to Oak Wilt. That's exactly
<br />what's going to happen, you're going to lose those to Oaks. You cannot get that back, so I think you
<br />need to work on the traffic counters cause I think there's a bunch of kids jumping on them.
<br />DP — On the traffic counters, we don't go out there and see if there are kids jumping on them. But when
<br />we report to the state, if they see an anomaly with the past, we have to go out there an recount, we
<br />have to set those again, and in the past we have had to do that numerous times. I know when we
<br />submit them, they say it can't be, its too low. Others, they will come back and say either way, we have
<br />to go back and reset them.
<br />LK - And also on one of those pictures on Spring Lake Road, I don't know what side it was it showed, and
<br />they've got the lines in there where there's a pretty big shoulder where they have the yellow line, that
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