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Minutes of the Regular 1VIeeting of Council Monday, January 29, 2018 Page 4 Sarah Dimling 6600 SOM Court Many thanks to all of the Council members for taking the time to listen to our serious concerns surrounding the proposed trail connection behind our homes. Thank you also to my neighbors for articulating our myriad of great concerns regarding the trail. I echo each of these concerns and would like to discuss some additional safety-related issues. I may be piggybacking on Monte's comments. The multiple industrial parking lots that connect to the path on the west side are in very close proximity to several of our yards. These empty and isolated parking lots are a serious security concern given their proximity to the path that is proposed right behind our homes: Not only the parking lots are only steps away from our path and homes, they allow almost immediate access to I-271 for a fast getaway from criminal activity such as break-ins. I know I am sounding kind of dramatic. While have been informed there have been no security incidents reported along the path to date, that by no means guarantees future safety. Currently, to my understanding, there are no other locations along the path that are as close to the residents' yards as the proposed path connected behind our properties. I met recently with some representatives of the Northeast Ohio Sewer group and they showed me on the map that my property literally where the path is, I am right there where literally from my patio is 20 steps to the edge of the drop off so if I am in the middle of my yard it is 10 steps away. 20 steps is very very close to the size of an average pick-up truck. While I don't have young children, there are friends who come over with children. I hope to have grandchildren soon and I am very concerned about my neighbor's children and i feel that it is very unsafe to have the path so close to the backyards. They are not allowing a safe environment for children to play outside if there's a public paved trail, it's literally orily a stone's throw away. To be respectful with time, I will close with one more safety concern I have and that is privacy. With this path so close to the rear side of many of our homes, at night we are not going to be able to see down to see any individuals that might be along the path but they are going to have a very very clear view of our homes and see right into our families and our lives and I am very concerned about that. Thank you. r'Tina TwParl 6604 SOM I back up right against where the trail is proposed as well as the brook. My concern is the conservation and the erosion. I understand with the redirecting of Beecher's Brook that we will have to take out a number of trees in order to preserve the vegetation that is there and the wildlife but with the proposed trail that they want to put in there, we are going to take out huge trees that will now prevent erosion problems for those homes that back up against that area. I back up against a huge tree that's back there and so do my other neighbors. Once they put that trail in and the proposed vegetation, the trees and things that they will put there, that will not stop the erosion. With the brick wall there, we won't be able to prevent any of the erosion as well. We