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Regular Council Minutes 1/24/OS Page 2 nature of the turn would be, so all of these things have been somewhat fluid. Because of the turning feature for the development of the Krenzler property, it is going to be very difficult to have any safe crossing point in the median area other than at Krenzler's property. And this is something I have asked Tom Cappello to revisit. I have asked Chief Dearden to look at and I think at the end of the day, it may well be that there will be some inconveniences during certain times of the day for the property owners there in that area. We have tried as much as possible to design the median to meet the best of all circumstances and we may not necessarily be able to do it. So that is pretty much the status of where we are right now. Mr. Marquardt said well I am disappointed we would put this median ahead or above the convenience of the property owners who have lived in the Village for many years and it truly is an inconvenience and a difficult passage for them to have to go around Beta and back to Wilson Mills to get to the center of the Village. It just doesn't fit with the concept of making the Village friendly for residents. Mayor Rinker said well I won't belabor the debate, I disagree. I don't think that the inconvenience that it poses will be altogether than onerous most times of the day and in the long run we are looking at a highway that is going to be more than double its current size. Having the median treatment is something that we think will be very advantageous to property owners and it certainly will provide a s'afety feature and the safety aspect of it is something that we shouldn't trivialize. Mr. Marquardt said we have managed to accommodate all other residents other than these 2 and of course accommodate Judge Krenzler's property. I think it behooves us to take into consideration these last two residents that are being inconvenienced by this divided highway. Mayor Rinker said the request is duly noted but I think that at the end of the day we have to be prudent in the way in which we balance the safety factors, the functionality of the overall roadway system and what may be on occasion an inconvenience for a property owner. So I think it will work out really well. Mr. Saponaro asked, Mayor; is Mr. Cappello going to provide a schematic on that? Mayor Rinker said well we have already had a schematic. In fact, we went through this about a year ago with a number of property owners. There are a few property owners who won't have the convenience of a cut-through. What we tried to do was put cut-throughs in places where they would be serving double duty for some residents, where we could join driveways, where we knew that there would be an opening area. What we've learned is that O.D.O.T. specifications (and this is a state road) has certain restrictions and doesn't altogether prohibit, but discourages a multitude of pass-throughs. In this particular area, on Beta, between Beta and Fisher's, even though the roadway has been elevated, there still are some siteline issues and in crossing, whenever the traffic is very busy, could pose some difficulties. We weren't doing this to accommodate Judge Krenzler as much as we are a development that will have upwards of 25 homes in that area which is comparable to any side street. And as a side street, a residential street, having that kind of access is altogether a different proposition than an individual driveway. There will be in that area a place to cue up. Dr. Stabile has misstated what I said about u-turns. What I had indicated, and this is my understanding based on my discussions with Chief Dearden is that there will be times when we anticipate people will be able to execute u-turns r?-