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Mounds View City Council March 8, 2004 <br />Regular Meeting Page 12 <br />2 <br />• 1 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />to <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />is <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />• 23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />• 44 <br />Mr. Bitz asked whether citizens voted on this trail at one time. <br />Mayor Linke indicated the City had a trailway committee of residents that reviewed the plan for <br />sidewalks within the City. <br />Mr. Bitz asked the City to go to the people that live there now because now there is a petition on <br />Groveland Road that the residents do not want a sidewalk. <br />Mayor Linke indicated that sidewalks are for the betterment of the entire community. He then <br />said that the trailway plan was reviewed recently. <br />Public Works Director Lee indicated that the trailway plan was reviewed in 2000. <br />Doris Hammond of 3034 Ardmore Avenue indicated she is the stepmother of Brandon that was <br />killed four years ago. She then said that the laws as to who has the right of way are different <br />between controlled and non-controlled intersections. She further commented that it is one thing <br />to come up to a pedestrian crossing at 20 m.p.h. or 30 m.p.h. but it is entirely different for <br />someone at 50 mph to see the pedestrian and get the car stopped. <br />Ms. Hammond said that this is not the average crosswalk where someone can actually safely get <br />across the highway. <br />Chuck Mocker of 7723 Groveland Road asked why the push for the sidewalk here when there are <br />not any other streets in the area with sidewalks but there are sidewalks on the busy streets. <br />Mayor Linke provided a map of the sidewalks within the City. <br />Mr. Mocker asked whether the sidewalk would continue down Groveland after crossing Highway <br />10. <br />Mayor Linke indicated it would go all the way down Groveland in the future. <br />Catherine Bleck of 7920 Groveland Road asked whether the $2,499.57 included the street and <br />the sidewalk. <br />Mayor Linke indicated the estimated amount is $2,800 due to increased costs with Rice Creek <br />Watershed District but that does include the sidewalk. <br />Harvey Ford of 7780 Groveland Road asked who assumes the assessments off the property that is <br />owned by the City. <br />Public Works Director Lee indicated that the City would pay its assessment for that parcel. <br />