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S Council Minutes of 8/15/89 -4- EITHER hydro-brakes OR retention but NOT BOTH. The petitions should never have been worded the way they were; at no time was the option of BOTH ever introduced. Discussion continued. Sandy .Kettle, 25140 Chase Drive, stated that the night of the meeting, a vote was taken and a f ew councilmen were for the hydro-brakes but a lot of them questioned it. None of the residents were for either one. Residents were against water retention because Mr. Benza said a two year storm was all it could hold, then the surcharge would be so great it would come back into the homes. Installation of hydro-brakes would put the water on the street but Mr. Benza said the pumps on Hunter would be operating so this would put sanitary as well as storm water on top of the street and yards. No one present was happy with this either. Mr. McKay stated that he felt that even though the people were not happy with the solutions, they were willing to accept hydro-brakes. He is not satisfied and does not believe in it;,the residents with driveways lower than the street are going to get water. Mary Flynn, 25029 Deerfield, stated that people in this area .are in a terzible predicament anal- do not know which way to go. The streets are flooded during bad storms right now - hydro-brakes will add more water .which .she is afraid will get into living rooms, plus flooding the ground and eroding foundations of homes. The engineer said that retaining basins would cause a surcharge which the hydro- brakes would not. Mr. O'Grady stated that if there were another storm like the one. on May 26th, NOTHING would help the flooding; the entire city was flooded during that storm. The alternatives discussed at the meeting were that hydro- brakes would keep the water in the streets and underground retention, if the storm exceeded a two year flood, would cause water to come back into homes. Feels the hydro-brake system is the best alternative. The engineer made it clear that you cannot have both because one system defeats the other. Discussion continued. Terence Types, 6288 Hastings Drive, stated he does not feel the entire city should be taxed to pay for a particular problem in a particular. section of the city; is in favor of assessments for individual streets or individual housing developments that have problems. Also,-why are builders not required to install sidewalks when they develop their property? Is specifically referring to Country Club Boulevard, where the Radisson Hotel and the off ice buildings in the area, do not have sidewalks. Law Director Gareau stated. that lack of sidewalks just de- veloped as a policy because of the lack of pedestrian traffic in such areas. However, it would simply require six members of council to determine that sidewalks were needed and the city could levy a special assessment and have them installed. President Saringer requested Chairman Tallon to discuss such a requirement in the Building, Zoning and Development Committee. Henry Rollin, 3458 Dawn Drive, stated that he had suffered about $12,000 in damages in the last flood. Would not care if he were to be assessed if that would solve the problem. If hydro-brakes are better than nothing, he will take them. If he has to clean sanitary debris off his lawn, he will do so. Does not want this to be rehashed for another couple of months; will accept the hydro-brakes and worry about something else later on. If the people are to be assessed, fine, but let's get a move on it. Gerry Girding, 25139 Chase Drive, stated that residents feel hydro-brakes alone will not work for people with garages under their homes - they will get most of the water while other homes would be saved. Also, there was concern for homes built on a slab. Is also concerned about water seeping in around foundations. Mayor Petrigac stated that she assumed council wished to proceed with hydro-brakes; that nothing has been changed.