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Residents from Spring Lake Park Road who spoke
<br />6:15 — Kathy Smith 7405 Spring Lake Road — And I did speak with Rice Creek Watershed District and I
<br />also spoke with Ramsey County Watershed District and White Eagle, spoke with her, for a number of
<br />hours also Laura at Rice Creek and I'm sure that your aware. I hope you can explain to the audience that
<br />Rice Creek partners with Ramsey County to offer up to $100,000 for cities to narrow their streets, not
<br />widen their streets. There is also new terminology, not sure if you are aware of it, a lot of cities like
<br />Fridley, Shoreview, Edina, St. Paul are all going to do what's called Green Streets or Living Streets or road
<br />diet, we don't need more impervious surface, I know you can throw all the gutters out there, all the
<br />clean basins and stuff like that, once you put this in, that's it. These trees, 49 trees I heard, these trees
<br />were here before the world was. It's not needed. Drive around the city, the road, the edges, and I also
<br />heard that your plow drivers are having problems, that means that's their probably additional training.
<br />We want water on our yards, look at the fires going on out there, do you want to take out more trees
<br />that are giving out oxygen, you guys are having problems with Oak Wilt, Dutch Elm, Emerald Ash Borer,
<br />Buckthorn, you want to hire more staff, I know you said that people are not going to be assessed but
<br />every taxpayer in Mounds View, taxes are going up, you gotta hire more staff, you gotta buy more
<br />equipment, you gotta sweep, you gotta plow that sidewalk you want to put in. By the way, that curb
<br />and gutter, on Cty Rd. H your plow driver took the curb and gutter out which will cost all of us to
<br />replace. So I want every residence, actually does their homework, and oh, by the way, that survey, I
<br />need to ask you specifically — do you know the term biased survey? The first question was pedestrian
<br />safety, I have two little neighbor kids that I love to come over. I walk them to and from, across the
<br />street. I care about pedestrian safety, but the ways you guys wrote that survey you're trying to make it
<br />sound like I want a wider street and I want a sidewalk and I don't. Let me just finish, every resident that
<br />wants to take their survey back, make sure that is done. 9:23
<br />9:28 Don Hinrichs 7785 Spring Lake Road, on the lake, on the curve. There is very little land between
<br />the road and lake. It looks to me when I look at your plan, that you will take out half my yard in order to
<br />have a path 6', a wider road, curb and gutter and I could be wrong but I just don't see where you are
<br />going to put a path on that side of the road unless you're going with a boardwalk of something that is
<br />right over the lake. And I understand you can do it, but when I bought the house I like it the way it is, I
<br />like the road the way it is, I don't need curb and gutter, everything has been working fine. So that's my
<br />opinion, so am I right, will you be taking about half my yard up?
<br />Don P — Will have to take a look at it, but I know the proposed trail around Spring Lake, next to where,
<br />you are talking will be right behind curb, there will not be that buffer in that location.
<br />Don H — But still, its 8 fee, it's still going into the yard quite a bit. (Don P — on the lakeside) No, on the
<br />other side — you will have to move it over (Don P — no, everything we are proposing is staying in the
<br />ROW where we have the right to work). But right where the road is, towards the lake, it goes right
<br />down to the lake. There's only 2 feet there. I would love it if a path would work, but if it means taking
<br />out half my yard then I am not for it. And somehow that has to be considered.
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