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DP — I completely understand and raised the same concern that we are missing traffic. Those are their
<br />rules and that we have to follow. By no means that does not mean that we cannot go out there and
<br />catch some of that traffic. Those traffic counts go on all the MSA streets, they indicate when we put
<br />those out there and again, it is not during the school year.
<br />BK - That does make sense, I don't see the traffic counts on say Spring Lake Road from County Road I to
<br />Bronson and other parts of Spring Lake Road out there and I would love to see all of it.
<br />DP — I think that is something we can get posted, out on the website
<br />BK - Some of them may not be that different but I would just like to see it. One other question I have for
<br />when talk about the ROW, would the clearing be done, I think you may have answered this already, not
<br />all the way to the property line?
<br />DP — I know on the plans there right now it is indicating we have a lot of trees to remove, but again, we
<br />have not done the final review. I can tell you on other projects we have not gone right to the edge of
<br />the property and removed every single tree, we look at that to see what is in there, and to see what
<br />trees should be removed for safety and what trees we can actually save.
<br />BK - When you say for safety — what does that mean, plow drivers?
<br />DP — No, it's actually for someone driving down the road.
<br />BK - So how many feet from the side?
<br />DP — I was going to ask Tyler that, what clearance. Back to the ROW line?
<br />Tyler — That is typically not required for a 30 MPH road. It's not the requirement for a 30 MPH road.
<br />So if I have tree that's approximately 3.5 feet in diameter about 3 or 4 four feet from the edge of the
<br />road it may not get cut down if it does not have to be for construction.
<br />DP — I would tell you that it's case by case, we look at that. 44:08
<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
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