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67 Regular Council Meeting 3/21/94 Page Five turned north and went down to White Road and traversed around Rockefeller. To get to the intersection of S.O.M. and Wilson Mills, it took me nearly 6 miles of driving and 14 minutes of driving time to cover an area that normally takes me a minute and a half and less than a mile. Now, if I want to patronize any of these restaurants or the drug ? store, or utilize any of the facilities that we normally utilize at this local, it is going to M take me an extra 12 minutes to come, and 12 minutes to return which is 24 minutes of M time for each trip. If each family is making two, or three, or four trips a day, you are Q talking about an excess of an hour of extra driving time that you're imposing on every z one of the families that lives in that community because somebody wasn't creative ? enough to come up with a way to address this problem and resolve it. We don't want to be investing an hour day for 60 days traveling on a detour. We have families, we have churches we want to be involved with, we have social activities. Our time is important to us. We don't feel that the alleged safety concerns here are such that it is reasonable for the administration to impose this kind of a significant hardship on the 25% of the families of this Village that live in that area and are going to be affected by this. I was involved with municipal government for 10 years in a community that was about 100 times the size of Mayfield Village. It was involved with many projects. I never knew a situation where residents were denied local access. In effect what you have done is come up with a plan that denies us 90% of our local access, because 90% of the time, we are either traveling south on S.O.M., or we are going west on Highland. Rarely, if ever, are any of us traveling north on S.O.M. Center Road. So, in a fact, what you did is you picked the most least traveled route and you told us that this was the only option that was available to use instead of selecting the southbound route, or the westbound route that would have been much, much more convenient for everybody that is being affected. I don't think that this matter was handled properly in the sense that we weren't made aware of what was happening until we saw signs go up and neighbors contacted one of us and I think that we were entitled to be consulted with as a community and talked to and be made aware of what was happening so the administration could evaluate our input before a decision was made, number one. Number two, it appears that more creativity or problem-solving ingenuity could have gone into this to come up with some sort of an alternate resolution that would note so severe on all of us that live there. Suffice it to say I have lived here 14 years and I've never had need to come to a Council meeting because nothing has ever occurred in this community that has upset me to the point where I felt the need to come to a Council Meeting because the community is normally well run. But, I will tell you it didn't take much to get me here tonight, or my neighbors and I can assure you, you will not find anybody that lives in that community that will agree with the proposal that you are going to implement. Every time we pull up to that intersection and we are forced to turn right and we realize that we are gong to be late for work because of the extra 10 or 15 minutes involved, or we are going to be late to pick up our kids from school, or we