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23:19 —Terri Hougen — 8340 Spring Lake Road I am a tree lover, I hate to see trees go, but a lot of people walk and bike, still have strollers on the street, we unfortunately we need a sidewalk for safety. We have tons for traffic than we used too and I would say at least half the traffic is speeding. Question, why is the bike path suggested for the west side, if it was on the east side it would hook up with Ardan which can steer people crossing Spring Lake Road. And why do we need the boulevard from the grass to the curb and then the sidewalk over here, why can't it look like Ardan does? DP — it certainly can, I know just that's what has been proposed. 24:09 24:16 — Michelle Dreier 7830 Spring Lake Road — Wanted to concur with Scott, a previous speaker - with looking at the measurements, even if there is no boulevard between the trail and road. I don't think there is enough room between the road and Spring Lake unless you're going to fill in the flood plain, I do not think there is enough room for it — an 8' trail, I would have to see the stakes. But I would revisit that and take a measurement. I also have a concern regarding the water levels on Spring Lake. We talked about Rice Creek but the water levels in Spring Lake are receding and I am wondering if there have been any studies as to how the collection of all the water in the storm and gutter is going to effect the water levels in Spring Lake. As someone that lives on the lake, the water levels from October last year to the snow melt to this year went down drastically. And because were in a drought throughout the summer the water levels have continued to recede to the point where it's getting a bit alarming how far the lake goes out. Just something to consider as we move forward if we are collecting more water into the storm sewers and it's not going into the lake, yes we have no pollutants going into the lake but are we going to lose the lake. 25:42. DP — Why are we looking at the west or east side — I don't recall. Tyler — Typically the power poles, west side has the utilities Question — Can you put it underground? DP/Tyler 0 IF you pay for it. Reason is we looked at the utility poles and if we put it in. We could put it underground but we would have to pay for it. That's how it works, city has to pay for it, and it is quite costly. Reason trail is being proposed with the boulevard is for watershed reasons, if you provide that green space between the trail and roadway it does not increase your impervious surface footprint for calculation of whether or not you need to do rain gardens and if we do put trail back of curb we are going to end up triggering rain gardens throughout the entire project. That's one of the things were trying to mitigate in the preliminary plan, Kathy Smith —The city can apply for a variance to go outside of MNDOT standards, you did it for the speed on the curve. 28:06 29:05 — Richard Oehlenschlager 7545 Spring Lake Road — Lived there since 1978. I am concerned were losing a lot of our aesthetics because of the beautiful trees that are over 100 years old and in addition to that the root disturbance from any of the other surrounding trees that I have can spread and wipe out my entire grove of pin oak (Latin name), those are threatened because I am going to lose some for sure and suffer for sure because of his project. This project was not called for, not asked for, not needed and 24