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should be made after the project is completed); no street lights be installed (County will not install street lights, this might be done by city). Based on these concerns and from their observations, CPC has made several preliminary recommendationse speed limit should be posted at no more than 35 m.p.h; need for traffic light at Pheasants Walk and Lorain should be re-evaluated after road is completed with consideration of the timing; after completion of the roadway, a traffic study should be done to determine the needs of the other projects in the city; street lights should be allowed at the intersections (including one at the proposed intersection at the Bradley Woods); pedestrian and bicycle links should be provided between the neighborhoods and the Metroparks, including either a pedestrian bridge over the roadway or mid-block or bicycle cxosswalks (maps 8, 9, 10 and 11); (Mr. Schultz was not sure if the cost of a pedestrian bridge could be included in the funding or if a bridge would comply to the American Disabilities Act): if the city and residents do not agree to the bike path, it should be deleted, and the sidewalk could serve for both; North 0]msted Board of Educations should install a pedestrian link between the school and the pedestrian walks along the road since there are paths, and children will cut through; some safety fencing should be considered around the school except where the walk will be (this type of access would probably not require school zone restrictions, but warning signs could be posted). The concerns.of the home owners regarding safety during construction should be monitored by the city and the county during construction. The mounding or fencing adjacent to the neighborhoods will improve the visual impact and is estimated to cost about $50.00 per foot, and should be e.xplored. Utilities should be encouraged to install lines underground. Regarding environmental concerns, there are some wetlands, and an envirorunental study is partially completed as required and the city should encourage full disclosure of the resu7_ts and advance notice of the public hearing; the city might consider establishing a wetlancLs ordinance to define, identify locations, establish procedures for proper litigation and rules for enforcement for all wetlands. The Metroparks should be encouraged to provide pedestrian and vehicle access to the park from Crocker/Stearns. The Uneconomic remnants of lots split off for the road should be acquired by the city or the county so that the ownership can be transferred back to the owners with deed restrictions requiring that these parcels remain in a na.tural state since it might be possible to join and use these remnants for other purposes. Chairman Gorris asked the audience to make their comnents at this time and explained County Planning Commission had been hired to help develop a ma.ster plan and one of the main areas of concern was to minimize the impact this road would have on the residents. Mro Grant, a resident of Stearns Road, stated that formerly the residents voted against the road because it was to become the new Interstate 76 in which case the residents will have no control over the speed limit or anything else. He is concerned about water backing into basements after the Yu.ghway is completed since there will be no drainage. City Engineer Deichmann stated that there is a drainage plan and the storm sewers are sized larger than what the city would require. Mrs. Le Pore, speaking for the Pheasants Walk Home Owners Association, re-emphasized the points mentioned above: deletion of both sidewalks and bike path, or the combination of the two and deletion of street lights. She explained that any sidewalks etc. would encourage children to go onto the a heavily travelled, high speed highway on which drivers will exceed the 35 m.p.h. speed limit. If their request for an 8 foot wooden fence and a 4 or 5 foot mounding with pine trees on top can be built to separate their lots from the road, they might be amenable to sidewalks, but they still believe that there is a danger. She quoted from the noise study which stated that "sufficient area exists between private properties and proposed roadway to construct an earth berm, however doing so would require the purchase 3