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64 <br />Regular Council Meeting <br />3/21/94 <br />Page Two <br />Patsy Mills, on behalf of the Mavfield Townshi? Historical Societ?, expressed thanks to <br />all of Council, Mayor Rinker, Mr. Brett, Mr. Diemert, for being so generous in their <br />donation for their continued restoration of their house. (She had left a mug with candy <br />on the table for each of them.) <br />Mrs. Cinco said they will handle the SOM/Highland intersection during the "Open <br />Portion". She said she has been assured that Mrs. Marquardt's video is ttivo minutes. <br />Mrs. Marquardt verified that the part of the video she wants to show is 2 minutes. <br />Mr. Bob Ehrhardt, 565 Timberline Trail, said he is the spokesperson representing the <br />people of Aintree North. They are very concerned about the construction that is going <br />to be going on in their development on S.O.M. Center and on Miner Road. In looking <br />over the proposals that you passed out to us, I see that you have an access going <br />northbound only on S.O.M. which means there will be no access to our development <br />other than going down Zorn Lane, up Metro, or to Hickory Hill. From a safety <br />standpoint, I feel that you will be getting into the spring weather, you are going to have <br />all the traffic coming out of our development going down those streets where there will <br />be small children playing, with excessive traffic that people are not used to in that area <br />(we don't even have access out of our development through Wildwood). I feel that <br />coming up and going southbound on S.O.M. Center we will be plagued with people <br />driving up, not being able to get through, turning down Hickory Hill, turning down <br />Metro, driving through our development all the way down Timberline to the end <br />realizing that they can't get out of there and then turning around and going back the <br />other way. My feeling and what we would like to hear as residents is what your <br />reasoning is as to why either Highland Road can't be open westbound or S.O.M. can't be <br />utilized in both directions with either a traffic guard or with some form of a stop light so <br />people can get through both ways. <br />Mayor Rinker said hopefully you have had a chance to review the letter from Dick <br />Overmyer, who is the Engineer who designed this. It is not as detailed as I would like, <br />however, my concern was in the past several days as we were approaching tonight's <br />meeting, I wanted Council first of all to be aware that over the past few weeks we have <br />investigated this and at least had some input from the person who designed this in the <br />first place. Mayor Rinker said he will try to summarize where we are. It is, in fact, <br />safety considerations that are paramount that support the configuration that they have <br />finally adopted. He said we really wanted to get a crossover from Timberline onto <br />Highland westbound only for the very reason we knew people would be concerned for <br />the problem of having to detour, concerns about traffic, to be able to get out of there. <br />Mayor Rinker said you must try to envision that this is effectively going to be a crater in <br />the intersection. T'he intersection itself is going to be lowered anywhere from a foot to