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48:11 Steve Duncan 7821 Spring Lake Road — I inherited the property, I have been there for 61 years,
<br />the house was built in 1938, its one of the first homes on Spring Lake. One of the gentlemen that came
<br />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 />38:38 — Brian Kaden 7675 Spring Lake Road — I have called you I believe, I called the mayor and I called
<br />the Deputy Chief of Police to complain what I think about are the traffic problems on County Road I, not
<br />necessarily Spring Lake Road per sea. But one of my biggest concerns about a trail is where it would
<br />connect with County Road I trail across from where the waterworks pipes run underneath. Due to
<br />traffic issues on County Road I and what I have observed over almost 30 years of living there, this
<br />coming May it will be 30 years that I have owned that house. There was a year and a half, I told you
<br />during our conversation that I was disabled and had not a lot better to do but look at the lake and look
<br />at the traffic and by my observation approximately 1/3 of the people run that stop sign. I have a real big
<br />issue with safety of having only a marked crosswalk at that stop sign. At one point in my life, when I was
<br />told by a former Chief of Police that there have no deaths, no injuries, no accidents and we have to put
<br />our resources elsewhere in the city. I get that, I could just complain, but last Friday night, shortly after it
<br />got dark my daughter whose in the back there said, "dad, why is that truck in our yard?" and I looked up
<br />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
<br />landscaping rocks I have out there. That's one of many stories I could tell you and if there was a walking
<br />trail or crosswalk over there, well; you know what could happen. Anyway, that would be a good thing to
<br />bring up to Parks meeting that they should hear a story like that. That guy ran right thru the stop sign,
<br />he was either sleeping, drunk, or playing with his phone driving with a Class A license or whatever they
<br />have, not a good idea. Couple other questions I have for you, when they take these traffic counts you
<br />mentioned that they don't like to do it when buses is on the road because that messes up , average.
<br />That's nine months out of the year, I not a statistician, but that's over half the year.
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