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11-17-03 Regular Council Minutes Page 11 `~ ROUGdI DRAFT -NOT REVIEWED OR APPROVED BY COUNCIL ~' picture of something that we think will look good and then we will be able to analyze it better. So we will get to where you are asking but we just aren't there yet. Dr. Parker said so they're going to develop a plan for that area that will incorporate these ideas and I know you were saying 3 trees for so many whatever-I guess my feeling is that we need to give them some direction as to how much money we want to spend and maybe ask them the question---- Mayor Rinker said we will but we just aren't there yet. Dr. Parker asked how can we do a plan and not be there? Mayor Rinker said you've got to start somewhere. All we are saying is we know generally we would like to put a pathway that is going to be interesting, that is going to have features of some mounding that is available in the space between the roadway and the pathway. Basically it's to give us an estimate of what it would cost to get that. If we don't like that, then we have to say no, we have to trim back. Dr. Parker said and this won't be presented to Whitehaven until after we see it, correct? Mayor Rinker said yes, I think that's probably a better way to go. Dr. Parker said that's good, I like that approach. Then will this affect the other areas that we're going to landscape? Can somebody come back to us and say well, look what you did for Whitehaven, we expect you to do this over here---- Mayor Rinker asked are you asking can people ask it--- Dr. Parker said they can ask it but can we be forced into providing the same type of landscaping there for other people? I know there's more at issue here perhaps but- Mayor Rinker said I don't have a crystal ball. Let me suggest something. For 5 years we have pretty openly, I have, represented that we want to make this something that is going to be a real statement that everyone in the community is going to embrace. I have always assumed that what we. want to do is a landscaping component that is mixed into all of this that is going to be exciting. O.D.O.T. doesn't think that way. We've pushed as much as we could to include within an O.D.O.T. specification format a rich landscaping product. By rich, I mean something that is going to be interesting, something that is going to function well that I think everybody enjoys. But I think we are only beginning to get a feel for what it is we can do in that area. I hope that people come back and say we like that; we'd like more of the same. That's what I am hoping for, that it will be popular and that all of us will look at that as something that is going to be an enhancement. But exactly what it is, I don't know. That is really I think an individual like Bill Ferinbach will be able to give us a sense of what quality-what it's going to cost to do something along that line. And if not, then what are our alternatives. So give us an informed basis to make some decisions that are going to have long-term impacts on that whole corridor. It is a 2-mile stretch.